Give the Saudi monarchy their dues. They are experts when it comes to manipulating political environment in their region to work in their favor—all by using soft power without at...
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Since the Arab uprisings began over six months ago, women have been on the front lines of change. Across the region, veiled and unveiled female protesters have become the iconic im...
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The author of this post is a Bahraini journalist and writer.* Many Bahrainis still remember the video that spread through YouTube at the peak of Bahrain’s revolution about fiv...
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By Lokman Slim and Inga Schei On June 30, 2011, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) gave the country’s prosecutor general arrest warrants for four Hezbollah members accused...
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Last week in Cairo, a group of prominent twitter activists organized a Twitter Nadwa, Arabic for “seminar,” which focused on social justice and economic reform. At a packed the...
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On June 23, the Basra Provincial Council voted to “ban the entry of U.S. forces into the city” and demand U.S. forces withdrawal from Basra’s airport by twenty-nine votes in ...
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The recent formation of the Lebanese Council of Ministers, now a majority-Hezbollah cabinet, has provoked calls from U.S. lawmakers to halt all aid to Lebanon on the basis that Hez...
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