Turkey’s financial markets tumbled due to political instability as a corruption probe targeted several key allies
In August 2013, the King of Sweden, Carl Gustaf, and his wife Queen Silvia, were visiting a museum when a Palestinian and his wife asked the royal ...
Jordan has thus far followed the flawed reform model of other imperiled or extinct Arab regimes
Secularism emerged in part to prevent religious majorities from politically enforcing their norms on others
I was invited to participate in the first Al Arabiya News Global Discussion forum in Dubai last week. The theme was ‘bridging the communication ...
The elections are the first parliamentary and local polls since 2006
Satire in Lebanon is submissive to the calculations of politics and the media
Satirist’s production company leaves TV station that took controversial show off air
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, designated Saturday by the ruling National Liberation Front to stand for a fourth term in 2014, helped end ...
While political fiasco continues to reshape the region with a full-fledged civil war in Syria, military ouster in Egypt and a lawless state in Libya, ...
It is impossible to fix the future without reconciling it with the past. How can the Arab societies that have witnessed civil wars or entered into ...
Fitch on Wednesday cut Tunisia’s sovereign rating two notches and warned it could cut further on political uncertainty and its potential ...
The surreal sight of a funeral taking place in the middle of the night is not uncommon in Jerusalem. The Jewish tradition requires that the deceased ...
Bassem Youssef did it. He trespassed the boundaries of what is prohibited and criticized even those whom the people were about to make sacred. Bassem ...
I do not know to what extent the authorities in the Arab world are up-to-date on the thinking of future generations about several topics such as the ...
“Welcome to The Program!” Every week Egyptians obsessively tuned in to hear that slogan and watch groundbreaking TV political satirist ...
“So who will you talk about now? “ Are you wondering how many times I’ve heard this since Mohammad Mursi was ousted? A lot! Many ...
A recent study from the Public Accountability Initiative in the United States revealed that 22 different commentators on Syria had connections to the ...
“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity” Gustave Flaubert complained in his letter ...
Morocco's King Mohammad VI named on Thursday 19 new ministers after the Islamist prime minister reached a deal to form a new coalition and end months ...
The deepening political standoff in Egypt has taken a toll on Turkey’s relations with Gulf nations, who quickly pledged generous financial aid ...
Iran's new president, Hassan Rowhani, was sworn in last Sunday. To slogans of 'Ahmadi Bye-Bye', President Ahmadinejad stepped down, leaving Rowhani ...
As Iran heads into presidential elections this week, Iranians have mixed views on political roles for religious figures but a large majority backs ...
After gaining the right to vote and participate in elections in 1952, one would assume that more female politicians would be taking part in ...
Muammar Qaddafi ruled Libya for 41 years. He was an unmerciful totalitarian governor, which meant his political isolation law meant the isolation of ...
Libya’s General National Congress met Sunday ahead of a vote on a controversial law to exclude former Qaddafi-era officials from government ...
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