- REGION
- Too true to be good?
Coalition forces say a newly discovered memorandum outlines plans to destabilise Iraq and points to Al-Qa'eda involvement in anti-Coalition attacks, reports Ramsey Al-Rikabi from Baghdad
- Blood and ashes in Arbil
The last year was a good one for Iraqi Kurds. It ended in carnage, writes Graham Usher in Arbil
- Rulers no more
The Sunnis feel they are the big losers in the new Iraq. Graham Usher in Baghdad reports on a community divided, disempowered and fearful of the future
- No sir, Yasser
An internal crisis that rocked the Palestinian movement Fatah this week highlighted its dire need for reform. Khaled Amayreh reports
- Cowboy without a horse
His credibility in question, US President George Bush is struggling to patch up his image in time for the November elections. Khaled Dawoud reports from Washington
- 'I, for one, am not voting'
With the Iranian elections set to take place within a matter of days, the country has been thrown into its worst political crisis in 25 years, Roshanak Taghavi reports
- Turning over a new leaf
The visit last week by a US congressional delegation to Libya ushers in a new era of Libyan-American relations, writes Gamal Nkrumah
- Gaining weight
Arab officials hope that renewed relations with China will give the region more clout, politically and economically, Dina Ezzat reports
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- INTERNATIONAL
- Cold financial logic dogs Liberia
Liberians await their country's reconstruction, but on a wing and a prayer, writes Gamal Nkrumah
- Can it be stopped?
The international community continues to struggle with the troubling question of why genocide remains a threat around the world and what -- if anything -- can be done to stop it, writes Jaideep Mukerji
- Trick or treat
The German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder quits as party chairman in a move designed to free him to institute sweeping socio-economic reforms, writes Abdel-Azim Hammad from Berlin
- Moscow nightmare
An explosion in Moscow's underground railway system, the mysterious disappearance of a presidential candidate, and the continuing conflict in Chechnya are creating a tense and uncertain situation in Russia, writes Shohdy Naguib from Moscow
- Caribbean Schevardnadze?
Armed opposition forces take control of Haiti's fourth largest city, Gonaives, casting a long shadow of doubt on the nascent Haitian democratic experiment, writes Gamal Nkrumah
- Appeasing Bush at Munich
At an international security policy conference, "old" Europe went over backwards to appease old friends, writes Abdel-Azim Hammad from Munich
- OPINION
- Neither possible nor credible
The disgrace of spurious claims about WMD in Iraq highlights the need to reform the UN, writes Ibrahim Nafie
- Free for plunder
Deregulation merely regulates in the interests of the few. As such, writes Samir Amin , it is destined to fail. But at what cost?
- In progress: Switching media < Mohamed Ali El-Guindy >
- Sharon's security fence
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed asks: Which of the two logics is more likely to prevail: building barriers or removing them?
- Close up: Pakistan's about-face < Salama A Salama >
- The death of a discourse
What will replace the fiery rhetoric to which we have become accustomed over several decades, asks Mustafa El-Feki
- Naguib Mahfouz: Democracy
- Soapbox: New life at syndicates < Mounir Megahed >
- The middle way
Middle Egypt is a curious mix of the secular and the sacred, the new and the old, the foreign and the local, writes Galal Amin
- Unilaterally racist
In pulling out several settlements from Gaza, Sharon is thinking in demographic terms, writes Azmi Bishara
- New trumps old
The prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Lebanon highlights two different orientations between the leaders who negotiated it. Sharon is on the losing side, writes Hassan Nafaa
- After the hurricane
Arab states must understand the broader dynamics of regional history if they are to respond to the pressures of the present, writes Ahmed Abdel-Halim
- Strangling an abiding rose
The US government may have imprisoned one of America's most inspiring non-violent social activists, but her very existence points a way to the end of the state's claim to the right of "legitimate" force, writes Curtis Doebbler
- The race is on
Does John Kerry have "what it takes"? James Zogby comments