EURASIA Libya’s General Khalefa Haftar. Photo by Magharebia, Wikipedia Commons. By Arab News By Linda S. Heard So-called freedom activists are beating their chests over the…
Arab News I really liked the cartoon by Migdad on May 26 depicting the current situation of Libya. It is said that a picture is worth…
Asharq Al-Awsat Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF, right, talks with a Syrian refugee woman during her visit to the Zaatari refugee camp in Mafraq,…
Al Arabiya Many Americans probably heard of Algeria for the first time in the 1975 movie “Dog Day Afternoon” where Al Pacino, trying to negotiate his…
Fred Dews Two Brookings scholars, in two new books, explore questions about democracy in the Arab World in the context of the Arab Spring uprisings. In…
HASSAN BARARI Despite health problems and the fact that ailing Abdelaziz Bouteflika is confined to a wheelchair, he won a fourth term in the presidential elections…
Bloomberg View THE BARAKAT (“ENOUGH”) MOVEMENT HAS DRAWN SOME NOTICE IN ALGERIA. PHOTOGRAPHER: FAROUK BATICHE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Noah Feldman In Morocco during the Arab Spring, a…
Christian Today By: World Watch Monitor The so-called Arab Spring has seen the overthrow of several Presidents across North Africa: first in Tunisia, then Mubarak in…