ALGIERS (AFP) Algeria’s president Monday called on youth and women to vote in next weeks’s elections, seen as a test of reforms taken by the government…

CAIRO (AFP) The radical Egyptian Islamist group Gamaa Islamiyya, implicated in acts including the assassination of ex-president Anwar Sadat, on Monday threw its support behind a…

VIENNA (AFP) Former Libyan oil minister Shukri Ghanem died by drowning but there was no sign of another party being involved “so far”, Vienna police said…

JERUSALEM ― Two things stand out in the Middle East since the Arab Spring began ― one that happened, and one that did not. What happened…

The Arab Spring and Women’s Rights Boston.com Her piece, “Why Do They Hate Us?,” has incited a fascinating and urgent conversation about gender and the…

In Tunisia after Arab Spring, Islamists’ new freedoms create new Muslim divide Washington Post Sixteen months after a humiliated Tunisian fruit vendor named Mohammed Bouazizi poured…

CAIRO (AFP) – More than 90 people were wounded in overnight clashes between Salafist protesters and residents of a Cairo neighbourhood, the Egyptian health ministry said on…