Month: June 2012

Egypt’s election Vote for the Brother A Muslim Brother is better than a Mubarak crony THE likely choice of candidates in the run-off on June 16th and 17th to decide who will be Egypt’s next president is not what The Economist...

NEW YORK TIMES Bahrain Court Upholds Convictions of 9 Doctors Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters Fatima Haji, right, embraced Zahra al-Samar, the wife of Dr. Ghassan Dhaif, after hearing the verdicts announced by a Bahraini court in...

1 of 1Full Size By Dina Zayed and Shaimaa Fayed CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s supreme court ruled on Thursday to dissolve the Islamist-led parliament, plunging a troubled transition to democracy into turmoil just two...

After seeing Arab Spring as an opportunity, Iran meets a largely … Washington Post CAIRO — Iran once saw the Arab Spring uprisings as a prime opportunity, hoping it would open the door for it to spread its influence in...