As the young activists of the 25 January Revolution call for a "Friday of Purge and Trial" the ruling military council has ordered a committee to be formed to investigate the wealth of ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his family, reports Gamal Essam El-Din

Following the Zamalek debacle, the decision to resume the national football league on 13 April is a brave one, but Inas Mazhar wonders if it's worth the risk

Another facet of the counter-revolution? Injy El-Kashef follows the destruction of holy shrines sweeping the nation and the resultant friction between Al-Azhar and the Sufis on the one hand and the Salafis on the other

Judicial and watchdog authorities freeze assets belonging to three of ousted president Hosni Mubarak's most senior officials, reports Gamal Essam El-Din

Calls to save Egyptians stranded in Misratah fall on deaf ears, reports Doaa El-Bey

The constitutional declaration announced by Egypt's military rulers was met with a mixed response, reports Gamal Essam El-Din

Egypt's military commanders said they were committed to democracy and fighting corruption after signs of tension emerged between opposition groups and youths who led the 25 January Revolution, reports Khaled Dawoud

The national dialogue did not get off to a good start, Mona El-Nahhas reports

The utopian image that the revolution has drawn of Egyptians is gradually showing shades of reality, writes Gihan Shahine

Official attempts to change the face of the state media fail to meet the demands of many staff members, reports Doaa El-Bey

Sherine Nasr examines the possibility of reviewing the terms of Egypt gas export agreements

Some Israeli commentators are openly recognising that the current regime in Damascus is the best one they can hope for, writes Saleh Al-Naami

While little progress in Palestinian reconciliation appears on the horizon, events in Egypt may have levelled the playing field for Hamas, writes Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank

Protests in Iraq's Kurdish region have rattled a regime that has long been trumpeted as a 'beacon of democracy' in the country, writes Salah Hemeid

Coming at a period of great turmoil and high expectations, the recent speech by President Bashar Al-Assad left many disappointed, says Bassel Oudat in Damascus

For a change, a relatively quiet Lebanon is watching chaos unfold in Syria. But reactions from both sides have been unusually muted, says Lucy Fielder

The West is using underhand tactics to ram through a Libyan putsch that the country cannot afford, warns Gamal Nkrumah

As the conflict in Libya headed towards stalemate this week, attempts have been continuing to find a negotiated settlement to the crisis, writes David Tresilian in Paris

Humanitarian intervention flounders on the lack of support from the Libyan people, says James Petras

The Yemeni sense of honour or maybe just plain old stubbornness and love of power have pushed the country to the verge of bedlam, observes Nasser Arrabyee

If momentum is what counts in politics, this has been a wonderful week for Ivory Coast's president elect Al-Hassan Ouattara, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Egyptians having been putting their personality under scrutiny over the last few decades, so now that they have performed their own revolution, Rania Khallaf looks back at an earlier study and what it made of us

Egypt is no stranger to popular uprisings,as Osama Kamal discovered at a recent seminar

Ati Metwaly revels in an unexpected triumph

After the withdrawal of the police from the country's streets during the 25 January Revolution, traffic was one of the things young Egyptians helped to organise, writes Omneya Yousry

The unprecedented riot which engulfed the Zamalek match badly tarnished the image of Egyptian football, Abeer Anwar reports