Shaden Shehab takes stock of the first round of parliamentary elections

Promises of a reformed People's Assembly look further from reality than ever, writes Gamal Essam El-Din

Rights groups said violence, fraud and vote-buying marred Tuesday's run-off elections. Gihan Shahine reports

Defiant after losing his parliamentary seat to the NDP, Ghad Party Chairman Ayman Nour tells Mona El-Nahhas he's already preparing for the next battle

Collective Arab efforts to address the ongoing crises in Iraq and Syria are growing more intensive, reports Dina Ezzat

A US serviceman speaks out to confirm non-embedded reports from Falluja that the US military used banned chemical weapons against Iraqis, writes Nermeen Al-Mufti from Baghdad

Jordan's security services have acted swiftly, restoring some confidence as a nation unifies against terror, reports Sanaa Abdallah in Amman

Megaphones, money and ambivalent policemen were just some of the things seen by Al-Ahram Weekly reporters monitoring the parliamentary election run-offs

Over the past few days, journalists have been assaulted, and prevented from doing their jobs. Mustafa El-Menshawy investigates

Coverage of the first round of elections saw the Egyptian press pinning its bias to its sleeve,writes Fatemah Farag

The arrest and then release of an Alexandria blogger has pushed the vibrant Egyptian blogosphere into the limelight. Amira Howeidy talks to some of its stars

Called Agaphy, the first Coptic Christian satellite TV channel began broadcasting this week. It has already generated controversy, Reem Nafie reports

Delegates from around the world gather in Tunis for the second phase of the World Summit on Information Society, reports Niveen Wahish

Money and infrastructure, and not white elephants, are needed to bring ICT to poor countries and bridge the digital divide, writes Alec van Gelder

Israel's economic strangulation of Palestinians is coming into focus as negotiations over the control of Rafah's border crossing came to an end, writes Erica Silverman

Amir Peretz's shock election as Labour Party leader has already lived up to the translation of his name in Hebrew: "breakthrough", writes Graham Usher

Despite wresting gains from Israel, the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority looks set to postpone scheduled polls yet again, writes Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank

Though the violence that has hit France over the last two weeks is showing signs of abating, the political battle over how to deal with it may have just begun, reports David Tresilian from Paris

India's burgeoning ties with the US is reason behind Pakistan's sudden turn to Israel, reporrts Graham Usher in Islamabad

Mohamed El-Assyouti watches Mohamed Khan reclaim overlooked lives in Banat Wist Al-Balad

Homage unadulterated by critique would have been the easy choice for the Edward W Said Memorial Lecture sponsored by the American University in Cairo (AUC). Thankfully this was not the case, writes Hala Halim, who interviewed the lecturer David Damrosch

Winter beckons and homeless Sudanese camping in front of Mustafa Mahmoud Mosque, Mohandessin, remain steadfast to their month-long sit-in. What does the future hold for these activist asylum-seekers? Gamal Nkrumah investigates

Nader Habib attends a pioneering class in virtual school