Questions for the Opposition Ghassan Charbel - If the Lebanese government was said, in light of the two decisions it took, to have erred in assessing the sensitiveness of the issue and the gravity of the timing, then can't it be said that the opposition, with the first shot it fired in the streets of Beirut, has poorly assessed Lebanon's sensitive structure, a mistake tantamount to a fatal sin?

Round One Hassan Haidar - We can say that phase one of the coup did not succeed. We can even consider that Hezbollah has failed at the test of understanding the Lebanese formula and its history, and of grasping the lesson that no confession can impose its vision and its program upon the other communities.

What Nakbah? Zuheir Kseibati - What bigger victories would Israel be celebrating when it commemorates its 60th anniversary, while gloating at the Arabs who have become captives to earthquakes and fires.

Bashir Gemayel and Hassan Nasrallah Abdullah Iskandar - There is something in common between the political projects for Lebanon that the late President Bashir Gemayel previously tried to accomplish and Hezbollah's SG is currently attempting to undertake.

Hezbollah and the Memory of Taliban!

Jameel Theyabi - Hamas takes Gaza hostage. Hezbollah takes Beirut hostage. Moqtada al Sadr threatens Iraq. Al Qaeda threatens the whole world.

A "Victory" the Size of Defeat

Elias Harfoush - Hezbollah's victory over Israel during the former was a Lebanese victory that achieved the withdrawal of Israeli troops.

Fatal Adventures

Ghassan Charbel - Targeting the media is both dangerous and condemned. It reflects the desire to eliminate the eyewitness. It reveals the desire for worse commissions. It expresses the decision to silence the other, to cross out its right to expression, to eliminate its voice and role as a prelude to its complete annihilation.

Acquiring Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia: Between Gradualism and Haste

Raghida Dergham - During the relatively historic National Experts Meeting on Domestic Violence held at the Marriott Hotel in Riyadh, a glass shield was installed to separate the male and female sides of the audience.

Hopes of Openness between Rabat and Algiers

Mohammad El Ashab - Through the language of diplomatic signals, Rabat has made a leap forward by confirming its openness to dialogue with Algiers.

The Fire of Civil Strife and the Separation of the Two Paths

Zuheir Kseibati - Up until the day of the strike, bullets and gunpowder in Beirut, and before the fingers of strife sneaked into its streets along the new demarcation line, the Lebanese had a choice between a slow death and suicide.

Exploitation Investment Funds Michel Morkos - As time passes by following the US subprime mortgage crisis, the direct and indirect losses incurred by the financial institutions and the banking sector are mounting, while the announced data unveil hidden financial disasters. Though some countries did cast a doubt over the IMF's estimates setting the incurred losses at around $1 trillion, the real losses may actually exceed the estimated figure.

Oil in a Week (Demand for Oil Stable Despite Massive Price Hike) Walid Khadduri - Crude oil registered a record price last week, as if breaking price records has become a regular weekly event recently. The cause of the price hike last week was the continued depreciation of the US dollar and the attacks on Shell and Exxon's oil plants in Nigeria which obstructed both company's production in Africa's largest oil producer.

Does America Want a Weak Dollar? Michel Morkos - For about a year, the US dollar has been dropping. None of the Federal Reserve's measures has worked to stop the slide, whether pumping billions of dollars to meet financial institutions' need for liquidity, after the subprime mortgage crisis sucked it out of the system, or reducing benchmark interest rates from 4% to 2%, in a short period of time.