A Sad Day For Online Free Speech In Jordan

I don’t know anymore. I would say it’s a sad day, but I can’t remember one that wasn’t. Long story short, the Jordanian government is going on,

Would Democracy in Morocco be a Good Thing?

The question whether or not this is true, however, remains.” Yes, the question for better or worse (probably worse) remains.

Al Sameraie: We Reject Iraq Division Decision, Will Block it

He said that this decision deals with Iraq as it is a US-affiliated state and that all Iraqi people across the national sectarian and religious spectrum reject such measures and

Deconstructing Iraq’s Sunni armed groups

Political and military struggles among armed Sunni factions are likely to persist for some time. The outcome depends on many variables, but especially the relationship between Al-Qaeda and other factions

Is Spreading Democracy in Middle East a Bad Idea?

Ever since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration has said that one of its key rationales for overthrowing Saddam Hussein was that an Iraq with a freely chosen,

Egypt’s NDP votes amid turmoil

Egypt is on the edge of its greatest political upheaval in a quarter century, and must foster genuine and inclusive civil, media, political and security reforms to prevent a potentially

Striking Mahalla workers demand govt fulfill broken promises

A crippling strike at Egypt’s largest public sector factory entered its fifth day on Thursday as workers, angry at corruption and what they call a string of lies and broken

POMED-SAIS Event on Islamist Political Participation in Turkey and Morocco

POMED and the International Development Program at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) co-sponsored a panel discussion today of recent developments in Turkey and Morocco, focusing on

Brotherhood Students Wounded, Arrested At Egyptian University

Egyptian security forces at the University of Fayoum clashed with a number of students from the Muslim brotherhood on Tuesday after the forces chased them down, wounded five of them

Egypt Gripped by Massive Textile Strike

While the world focuses on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s repression of journalists and the Muslim Brotherhood party, a different sort of social unrest has boiled over at a state-owned textile