President Obama’s speech in Cairo is eloquent, the rhetoric soaring, but many in the audience are left wondering whether the charismatic president can back it with new policies and actions.

Cairo, 4 June - US President Barack Obama delivered a skilfully packaged speech aiming at the hearts and minds of US allies, but carefully avoiding all key issues. Addressing a

US President Barack Obama has admitted US involvement in the 1953 coup in Iran which overthrew the democratically elected government of premier Mohammad Mossadegh.

US President Barack Obama’s historic speech on Thursday (June 4) to the Muslim world calling for a "new beginning" in ties with America evoked a positive response in Egypt with

More chatter has come down the wire on President Obama’s speech at Cairo University this morning. The Daily Star reports that many Muslim leaders have been praising Obama’s speech. Randa

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace held a symposium on Iran’s upcoming presidential elections, the first round of which is scheduled for

In the Boston Globe yesterday, Farah Stockman focused on prospects for Middle East democracy promotion under President Obama.

The second, and most highly anticipated, of Iran’s presidential debates took place last night between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, the New York Times reports.

Mark Lynch praised President Obama’s speech in Cairo today, calling it a triumph for public diplomacy that peacefully serves as an “invitation to conversation.”

The New York Times surveys the responses of a few Arab students to President Obama’s speech in Cairo. Sulafah Al Shami, a Jordanian student, called it “a big break from