According to the BBC, military supporters clashed with anti-military and anti-Brotherhood revolutionaries during protests commemorating the second anniversary of the bloody Mohamad Mahmoud demonstrations in Cairo. Police responded to the clashes by firing tear gas at anti-army demonstrators. Protesters ...
Over the weekend, protests erupted outside the headquarters of a Misrata militia force in Tripoli calling for the militias to leave Tripoli. The protests turned violent when the militiamen reportedly opened fire on the demonstrators, leaving approximately 43 people dead ...
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was nominated as the National Liberation Front's (FLN) candidate for President in the 2014 election according to Al Jazeera. Bouteflika, currently serving his third term, has been president since 1999. According to the article, ...
Human Rights First published a report, entitled Plan B for Bahrain, which urges the U.S to use its leverage to push for reform in Bahrain. The organization also called for withholding arms sales and the implementation of the Leahy ...
Photo Credit: Reuters / Faisal Al Nasser According to CNN, Saudi Arabia has launched a "security campaign" to crack down on workers violating visa rules after an amnesty to formalize their visa status expired. The crackdown is mainly concentrated in Manfouha, a district of the capital city, Riyadh. Khaled Al Maeena, editor-in-chief of the Saudi Gazette, said police are focusing on two types of undocumented immigrants. "One is the over-stayers and who came illegally, ...
The Syrian National Coalition (SNC) has approved nine cabinet "ministers" for an interim government charged with running Syrian territory that is in rebel hands. Al Jazeera reports, "The National Coalition has struggled for months to cobble together an interim government, ...
Photo Credit: Forbes Moroccan lawmakers plan to introduce a bill to parliament which would make sexual harassment punishable by jail terms. The Arabic-language daily Al-Massae reported that the bill makes illegal, “any unwelcome act against a third party in public spaces, whether ...
An Egyptian court declared that the three month-old state of emergency expired Tuesday. The military and security officials postponed implementing the ruling and lifting a nighttime curfew until they received an official statement from the government. However, The Washington Post reports, "It was ...
Photo Credit: AP The Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Ehud Yaari reported the emergence of a Tamarod movement in the Gaza Strip that called for mass protests on November 11, the anniversary of the death of Yasir Arafat, in opposition to Hamas rule. Yaari argued that Tamarod Gaza are charging Hamas "with neglecting the interests of the Palestinian people, including its 'constitutional right of freedom of expression and political organization,'" and demanding Hamas "pursue speedy ...
Photo Credit: AFP / Filippo Monteforte The Thomas Reuters Foundation published a new poll on women's rights in the Arab world which ranked Egypt last among 22 nations. The poll surveyed 336 gender experts in August and September in 21 Arab League ...