Egypt is confident it can iron out its differences with upstream Nile countries, somehow, Dina Ezzat reports

Widespread unemployment and lack of political freedom were just two of the problems facing Egypt's young people identified in the Egypt Human Development Report 2010. Doaa El-Bey attended its launch

Dina Ezzat tries to understand what has prompted Arab leaders to examine the question of reform

Once again, Hamas and Cairo are at loggerheads. Is there anything new under the sun, reports Dina Ezzat

The US State Department's 10th annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report praises Egypt's efforts to reduce human trafficking, reports Reem Leila

Tension over the sharing of River Nile waters is rising, Reem Leila reports

Ex-IAEA chief Mohamed El-Baradei's visit to Alexandria provoked mixed reactions in political circles, reports Gamal Essam El-Din

The controversy surrounding the 28-year-old Khaled Said's death continues, reports Mohamed El-Sayed

The Bar Association Council's performance has come under fire in the ongoing standoff between lawyers and judges, reports Mona El-Nahhas

Quietly, Israel is preparing the biggest illegal land grab in recent memory, all on Obama's watch, writes Khaled Amayreh in Jerusalem

For Gazans, victory over the blockade demands but a little more patience, writes Saleh Al-Naami

Syria is host to the third largest number of refugees in the world, and the greatest number in the Arab world. Will that situation last, asks Bassel Oudat in Damascus

As violence increases, there is no sign of a stable government in the works, writes Salah Hemeid

The Lebanese army has arrested another Israeli spy. But how many more remain, Omayma Abdel-Latif asks from Beirut

Lebanon's marginalised Palestinian refugees are offered hope by a controversial draft law that affords them thitherto denied basic rights, Lucy Fielder reports from Beirut

An attack on an intelligence station in south Yemen is being painted by the government as proof of an alliance between Al-Qaeda and southern separatists, reports Nasser Arrabyee

Canada plays host, the banks got off Scott-free, the Europeans were sitting on the sidelines and the poor are forced to tighten their belts further in the aftermath of Gs 8 and 20 summits, deduces Gamal Nkrumah

It is not military insubordination that lies behind US failure in Afghanistan; it is the military's control of strategy, writes Graham Usher in New York

Sherine Nasr reports on the ongoing dispute over reducing subsidies on energy

Magda Shahin sees Egypt as a natural choice for kick-starting Obama's global entrepreneurship drive, but success will require strenuous public-private cooperation

The latest Egypt Human Development Report focuses on the future foretold via the challenges facing Egyptian youth, reports Doaa El-Bey

Dying within a week of each other, on 21 and 28 June respectively, the critic Farouk Abdel-Qader (b. 1938) and the poet Mohammad Afifi Matar (b. 1935) -- both left-wing dissidents...

Ati Metwaly revels in a miscellany of sound

Ahmad Helmi's latest vehicle is supposed to expose the problems of Egyptian society, writes Hani Mustafa, but it exposes the problems of Egyptian cinema as well