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the middle eastFrom Jordan and Syria to Egypt and Iran, openDemocracy writers track the issues behind the headlines. Gilles Kepel takes the temperature of the Muslim world after 9/11, Daniel Swift examines the deeper currents of Egyptian ‘democracy’, and Ali Shukri assesses the dilemma for Syria after the overthrow of the fellow Ba’athist regime in Iraq.
Anwar Sadat was killed on this day in 1981. What has changed in Egypt since? (archive)
Three countries with three elections in 2008-09 make a political strategy for Iraq's future urgent
George W Bush's administration has unfinished business with Tehran and Baghdad
The Damascus-Jerusalem parley will need luck and skill to avoid becoming a lost opportunity
The poison-gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja on 16 March 1988 remains an open wound for many of its victims
Iraq's political system must be repaired at national level if local progress is to be made
Mai Ghoussoub explores the power of a prize-winning image of war-torn Beirut (archive)
The reception of a report on Israel's Lebanon war suggests the next conflict may be near
A transformation in energy policy will reshape the middle east's profile as a region defined by oil
Arab Christians were agents of progress in the Arab and Muslim world. What happened?
Syrian influence across Lebanon's porous borders is intensifying the country's divisions
US efforts to undermine Hamas and Hizbollah are part of a divisive and unprincipled middle-east strategy
Two worlds collide in a London taxi. Bissane El-Cheikh was one
The killing of seven Spanish tourists has propelled Yemen into the media spotlight, but its political history deserves attention on its own account
During the Hizbollah war of 2006, two logics - "riviera" and "citadel" - appeared in sharp outline (archive)
The Bush administration's options in Iraq are narrowing, but there is one card left to play
Lebanon's security as well as its self-interest demands humanity and respect towards the Palestinians it hosts
The Arabs' defeat by Israel in the lightning war of 1967 was followed by a deeper failure, says Hazem Saghieh.
Iran is up, Syria down, and Lebanon in trouble: Robert G Rabil assesses a new configuration in regional politics. Read the rest of this post...
The Winograd report dissects Israel's military and political failings in the Lebanon war of 2006. It also leaves the country's leaders with only one option, says Thomas O'Dwyer. Read the rest of this post...
The deep and enduring split between Islam's two great sects cannot be healed in a climate of Muslim and Arab denial, says Hazem Saghieh. Read the rest of this post...
Robert G Rabil's book reveals a Syria-United States relationship more changeable and nuanced than post-9/11 rhetoric indicates, says Carsten Wieland. Read the rest of this post...
A mixture of violence, hypocrisy and degradation is corroding the
west's standing in the Arab and Muslim worlds. A fresh reconciliation
of values is needed, says Tarek Osman.
The European Union could play a major role in reinvigorating the Palestine-Israel peace process by aiding Palestine. But it needs to be done intelligently and with care, says Richard Youngs Read the rest of this post...
The Saudi-mediated pact between Fatah and Hamas marks the return of Palestine as an arena for regional rivalry, says Khaled Hroub. Read the rest of this post...
The Lebanese artist and publisher was a courageous force for the
enlargement of life, writes her friend across decades, Neil Belton.
The loss of the Lebanese artist and publisher leaves her friends and colleagues bereft. Maggie Gee, Anna Wilson and Anthony Barnett pay tribute to Mai Ghoussoub. Read the rest of this post...
The Madrid summit of 1991 opened the way to the Israeli-Palestinian accords at Oslo in 1993. A gathering of its veterans looked forward as well as back, reports Kanishk Tharoor of Madrid11. Read the rest of this post...
The war between Hizbollah and Israel in Lebanon was a contest over the nation-state as the foundational unit of political action, says Hazem Saghieh. Read the rest of this post...
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