Good Friday became a massacre in Damascus and Easter Monday -- in Daraa, when security forces opened fire on peaceful protesters, reports Bassel Oudat from the Syrian capital

With only a few hundred vocal supporters left, Mubarak's power base has all but disappeared three months after his fall, reports Khaled Dawoud

The difficulty of moving Hosni Mubarak to a prison hospital in Cairo shifted attention to the serious accusations levelled against the deposed president, Gamal Essam El-Din reports

As President Bashar Al-Assad orders his army and brutal security forces to attack civilian protesters in nearly all major cities in Syria, Egyptians and Syrians have been holding protests in Cairo, reports Khaled Dawoud

Daylight Saving Time has been scrapped, reports Reem Leila

On home and region fronts, the prime minister is trying to defuse ticking time bombs, Dina Ezzat reports

Dina Ezzat assesses the former presidential family's rise and fall

The Arab spring has refocussed attention on one of the region's most intractable conflicts, writes Graham Usher

While Netanyahu appears to be gambling on Obama, the US president shows few signs of siding with the Palestinians against Israel. Nonetheless, the present stalemate cannot last, writes Saleh Al-Naami

With policy speeches ahead by Obama and Netanyahu, Palestinians are pushing for their own solutions, writes Khaled Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem

As the upcoming flotilla to break the Gaza siege gathers steam, it is good time to note some of the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions activities around the world that give it momentum, says Eric Walberg

Rapid progress on reconciliation, mediated by Egypt, is being made ahead of Palestinian moves to request recognition of statehood from the UN in September, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah

Official British documents have revealed that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was about oil after all, writes Salah Nasrawi

West would be better with the devil it knows, surmises Gamal Nkrumah

As the military stalemate in Libya continues, NATO-led forces may soon be facing further unpalatable choices, writes David Tresilian in Paris

Can Tunisia, lacking stability and hit by unrest, deal with the thousands of Libyans now flocking across its southern borders, asks Mourad Teyeb on the Tunisia-Libya border

The state of emergency ended but chaos and violence have increased, reports Bassel Oudat in Damascus

The official opposition is willing to provide immunity to Saleh and his gang, and give him a month to tie up loose ends. Most protesters continue to demand that Saleh leave immediately, while others think Sharia will solve everything, reports Nasser Arrabyee

Egypt's widespread nuisance tariffs damage its economy and should be abolished, writes Arne Klau

Economic development should no longer be measured by growth rates, percentages of poverty or the number of employed. Assessing the impact different policies have on the everyday life of people is a more indicative measure. Sherine Abdel-Razek listened to experts analysing reasons the region lags behind in monitoring and evaluating development

Nehad Selaiha wonders when theatre will stop looking back in anger at Mubarak's reign and begin to heed present threats to the revolution

Egyptian philosophers are studying the mechanics of the 25 January Revolution, Osama Kamal reports