Month: May 2012

As Egypt holds landmark vote, a nation-by-nation look at Arab Spring’s progress Washington Post The winner will succeed Hosni Mubarak, one of four rulers toppled in the uprisings that began 18 months ago across the Middle...

AFP Egypt protest over military courts CAIRO (AFP) Several hundred activists took part in a one-day hunger strike in Cairo on Sunday to protest the ruling military council’s continued use of military courts to try...

AFP Algeria Islamist party won’t join gov ALGIERS (AFP) Algeria’s largest legal Islamist party on Sunday announced that it would turn down any offer to join the government following legislative polls it claims were...

Al Arabiya Dina al-Shibeeb: Arabs and heritage, and why Islamists win In this picture dated 1956, shows female journalism students inside Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the chief center of Arabic literature and Islamic learning in the world,...