2012 comes with numerous opportunities for the Muslim world. For the first time, many Arab countries have a chance to hold free elections and carry out reforms to establish political

After the conclusion of the meeting on Syria, which was attended by the Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmed Davoud-Oglo, the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar, Hamad Bin Jasim, held

A number of jurists and legal advisers have expressed concern that failure to enable Egyptians abroad to vote in the upcoming elections is both unjustifiable and unacceptable, and that all

Throughout the Arab spring, analysts and policymakers have debated the proper role that the United States should be playing in the Middle East.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's visit to Egypt, Tunisia and Libya Sept. 12-16 is seen as a new chapter in Turkey's relationship with the Middle East.

Coptic intellectual and former MP Gamal Assa'd rejected a US report on religious freedoms which labelled Egypt for the first time as a “country of particular concern,” citing “systematic, ongoing,

In a symposium, coinciding with the anniversary of the ruling by a U.S. Federal Court of Appeals in favor of the main Iranian opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK), former

Despite the absence of any prospects for reform in Syria, and the Syrian regime's resort to a policy of brutal repression, the pace of the mass movement has escalated in

The U.S. government pumped an estimated half a billion dollars into revitalizing Iraq's news media after Saddam Hussein was ousted in 2003.

After the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, many Western commentators were surprised by the ease with which Iraq's religious movements adapted to multiparty democracy.