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A Tunisian Revolution Souring?
Seyyed Ferjani. Source: Gianni Cipriano for the ‘New York Times’My first meeting with Seyyed Ferjani, the Ennahda revolutionary and current advisor to the Tunisian Ministry of Justice, was on a morning...
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Second Independence Trauma
An armed man waves his rifle as buildings and cars are engulfed in flames after being set on fire inside the US consulate compound in Benghazi late on September 11, 2012. Source: STR/AFP/GettyImagesOn...
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Explaining Iraq’s Agony
Iraqi’s protest against Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Kirkuk, February 2013. Source: MARWAN IBRAHIM/AFP/Getty Images). Iraq: From War to a New Authoritarianism Toby Dodge London, Routledge/IISS,...
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Hamid Mousa: Sacrifices Outweigh Benefits
US Marines chain the head of a statue of Saddam Hussein before pulling it down in Baghdad’s Al-Fardous square on April 9, 2003. Source: AFP PHOTO/Ramzi HAIDAR BAGHDAD, Asharq Al-Awsat—Hamid Majid...
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The Hallmark of Democracy
Libyan women protesting. GETTY IMAGESLast February, Libya’s defense ministry detained four Christians—an American, an Egyptian, a South Korean and a South African—for allegedly distributing Christian...
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Surviving the Ides of March
President of the General National Congress of Libya, Mohammed Megaryef attends the first cabinet meeting of the newly formed Libyan government on November 21, 2012. MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/ GETTY IMAGESMore...
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Last of the Immortals
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika listens as his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma (L) speaks upon the latter’s arrival at the People’s Palace in the capital Algiers on April 15, 2013. FAROUK...
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Algeria’s Cloudy Future
An Algerian woman leaves a voting booth before casting her vote at a polling station in Algiers during local elections on November 29, 2012. FAROUK BATICHE/AFP/Getty ImagesIt looks like Algeria might...
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Free at Last?
Iraqi women show their ink-stained fingers after casting their votes at a polling station in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, on March 7, 2010. AFP/ GETTYIMAGESFiryal’s husband, Firas, was stopped by the...
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Evolutionary, not Revolutionary
Saudi students sit for their final high school exams at the end of the school year in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, June 19, 2010. AMER HILABI/AFP/Getty ImagesA Kingdom’s Future: Saudi Arabia...
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A Deep State of Mind
Grafitti marks the occasion when Tunisians successfully ousted their president Zine El Abidin Ben Ali in January 2011. CHRISTOPHER FURLONG/GETTY IMAGES Following the assassination of Chokri Belaid,...
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Lessons Learned in Egypt
A protestor wearing a Guy Fawkes mask holds up a red card as thousands of Egyptian demonstrators gather outside the presidential palace in Cairo during a protest calling for the ouster of President...
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Editorial: A Lesson for Turkey
Protesters shout anti-government slogans during a demonstration in Ankara on June 26 2013. ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images This week’s historic events in Egypt that witnessed the toppling of Mohamed Mursi,...
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Liberal Islam’s Poster Boy
Kamal Helbawy. THE MAJALLAKamal Al-Helbawy, until recently one of the oldest members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, has spent most of his life on the perimeters of power. Coming of age in Cairo when...
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A Conflict of Definitions
An Egyptian man holds a portrait of defense minister Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi as anti-Mursi protesters gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on July 7, 2013. KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images There are rising...
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Egyptian Democracy on Hold
Egyptian activists gather during a rally on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House on August 22, 2013 in Washington, DC. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) There are so many issues...
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Transition at a Turtle’s Pace
Tunisian Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou, Justice Minister Nadhir Ben Ammou and Minister of Human Rights and Transitional Justice Samir Dilou attend a constituent assembly meeting on September 19,...
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