A night time view of King Hassan II mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. Photo – Milamber’s portfolio via Flickr under Creative Commons License Embracing the northwest corner…
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Prominent writers and editorialists in the Arab nations of Tunisia and Morocco say that the “Arab Spring” movement that ousted dictatorial leadership in several nations and…
Disappointment over the lack of democratic progress in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya is understandable, but the so-called Arab Spring of 2011 will take time to mature,…
We should have called it differently. But the energy, the passion and the hope on the southern shore of the Mediterranean in early 2011 did resemble…
For nearly a century, authoritarian rule fed extremist views throughout the area and while death and mayhem dominated contemporary Middle Eastern histories, the glorious and still…
The Administrative Court Sunday rejected the appeals filed by a number of Parliament hopefuls, including former MPs Khalaf Dumaithir and Khalid Al-Shulaimi, against the Election Commission’s…
Approximately two and a half years after the revolution in Egypt, what is happening today has led me to question the past, present and the future…
IT’S no secret how much I love lamb – being the son of a lamb farmer, it would seem almost disloyal to be so fond of…