The revolution has not yet touched the heart of the institutions of government, and so is vulnerable to counter-revolutionary acts and dissension, writes Abdallah El-Ashaal*
I doubt that the Port Said massacre will be the last tragedy we see in this (...)
Lest revolution give way to repression, every element of the former regime must be weeded out and held accountable, and without emotion, writes Abdallah El-Ashaal*
The interim military government's remiss in handling the Mubarak regime and its key (...)
Latent indications of remorse suggest there is more to the role of some in paving the way for the invasion of Iraq than at first meets the eye, writes Abdallah El-Ashaal*
In the second week of August, Mohamed El-Baradei announced that he regreted (...)
Rather than argue the fate of the Arab peace initiative, the Arab order should focus on building its capacities, writes Abdallah El-Ashaal
Since Israel's recent assault on Gaza, the Arab peace initiative, as approved at the 2002 Beirut summit, has (...)
Locked between US plans in the Arab region and Afghanistan, Pakistan appears both a target and a victim of the war on terror, writes Abdallah El-Ashaal*
A happy ending is what Pakistan and Afghanistan cannot by any stretch of imagination have. It (...)
The full-blown Zionist project is over. Even Israel's prime minister admits it, writes Abdallah El-Ashaal*
At a meeting of the Israeli cabinet on 15 September, Ehud Olmert, the prime minister who soon afterwards stepped down, made an earth- (...)
Will the International Criminal Court agree to its prosecutor-general's request to bring Sudan's president to trial? Unlikely, writes Abdallah El-Ashaal*
On 1 September the International Criminal Court (ICC) will hold a preliminary hearing on the (...)
Before engaging Iran in dialogue, Arab governments and the Sunnis should review their placatory thinking on authority and resistance, writes Abdallah El-Ashaal*
A couple of decades ago the term "interfaith dialogue" gained currency, even though (...)
France wants a role mediating in Lebanon, but it is not an impartial broker, writes Abdallah El-Ashaal*
Lebanese rival factions have met on the outskirts of Paris, by invitation of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, to look for a way out of the (...)
Little of sustenance, writes Abdallah El-Ashaal*, resulted from the Sharm El-Sheikh conference on Iraq
The Sharm El-Sheikh conference held 3-4 May 2007 had two different purposes. One was to boost national reconciliation and reconstruction (...)
Palestinians must remain wary of Israeli intentions, writes Abdallah El-Ashaal*
To many, Israel's acceptance of a truce with the Palestinians came as a bit of a surprise. The announcement came after a period of bloodshed in which Israel liquidated a (...)
Abdallah El-Ashaal* decries the relationship between Saddam and the United States and suggests the former dictator may live to rule another day
The Americans used Saddam Hussein as a pawn his entire life, first as a bulwark against Iran, then to (...)
Amid the bombs, the Lebanese may come together, for now, and to Israel's chagrin, writes Abdallah El-Ashaal*
Lebanon is adjacent to Israel and although it officially tries to stay out of conflict with that country, it rarely succeeds. Lebanon has no (...)
Abdallah El-Ashaal* examines the likely course of the trial of Saddam Hussein
On Sunday, 14 December 2003, the US announced that its forces in Iraq had captured former president Saddam Hussein. That evening, in a statement to the nation, Bush (...)
Are we selling the resistance down the river? Abdallah El-Ashaal* reflects on the rhetoric of recent "peacemaking"
There is more to the Sharm El-Sheikh and Aqaba summits than meets the eye. A new era is beginning, and a word of advice is due to our (...)
By Aggressive US/Israeli nods towards Syria should be an added impetus to rebuilding an Arab order based on collective security, says Abdallah El-Ashaal*
The period following the US-led assault on Iraq, which the Arabs along with the rest of the (...)