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It was a lightning war of short battles and quick victories. Hizbollah and its supporters in Lebanon’s opposition movement have swept Western-backed militias out of Muslim and mixed areas of Lebanon.

The government of Hosni Mubarak announced last week that all Egyptian public sector workers would receive a 30 percent wage increase as part of an effort to head off growing militancy. Egyptians who work in the informal sector are not included in the rise.

Sixty years ago next week the state of Israel was founded through the violent theft of historic Palestine.

The Egyptian regime has unleashed a wave of repression on the industrial city of Mahalla el-Kubra following four days of riots and demonstrations.

US journalist James Buck witnessed the crackdown in Mahalla following the uprising.

Hundreds of delegates to the sixth Cairo Conference against globalisation and imperialism met this week amid a growing movement for social justice in Egypt.

Egyptian democracy campaigners have called for a "day of popular anger" to coincide with a textile workers’ strike on 6 April.

Under The Bombs is an extraordinary film. Shot in Lebanon following Israel’s bombing in 2006, the actors improvise a script while real events unfold around them.

This is a timely exhibition of work by Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali – gunned down in London in 1987 after lampooning Palestinian leaders.

People across the world are rightly horrified at the appalling violence and cruelty that has been meted out by Israel’s armed forces against the Palestinian population of Gaza.

Israel unleashed terror on the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip last week, when it launched a military operation including airstrikes.