Egyptians are voting in the country’s first free presidential elections, 15 months after Hosni Murbarak's stranglehold on the country was dissolved ...
The fight to achieve real democracy in Egypt will undoubtedly be protracted and is certain to last for at least another generation. Holding elections is merely the first step in a long process that requires nothing less than a cultural revolution within Egyptian society, because at the end of the day, there can be no democracy without democrats.
One of the biggest challenges to understanding events in Syria over the past year has been the lack of access granted to the international media.
Media freedom has the power to transform societies and to change the course of history. Over the past year, across the Middle East and North Africa, ordinary citizens found their voices using social media and blogs. But freedom of expression continues to be repressed in many countries and some have seen a significant decline in media freedoms. Around the world, journalists, bloggers and others have been obstructed from doing their work by being harassed, monitored, detained, or subjected to violence.
The background: January 2012, A thriving local Indian literature festival, the Jaipur Literature Festival, which gets visiting authors like Irvine Wel...
A year on from successfully having them frozen, the Egyptian state has yet to recover a penny of the £85 million of assets thought to belong to Hosni Mabarak in the UK. Staff at its specially established Illicit Gains Department, despairing of any prospect of cooperation from the UK Treasury, filed a lawsuit against it last month.
Two days ago, I blogged for The Huffington Post UK detailing the April 23rd cyber-attacks which were launched by the so-called "Syrian Electronic Army...
The UAE. A place famous for tax-free shopping, stunning feats of construction and beautiful beaches. So much so that one million Britons visit each year. Scratch beneath the aesthetics of opulent Dubai however, and a much darker story begins to emerge.
It was close to mid-night when followers of the Twitter-feed of Al-Arabiya, one of the leading satellite news channels in the Middle East, began noticing a series of controversial news post relating to the State of Qatar.
The Bahraini government has said it is "confident" today's Grand Prix will not be disrupted by continuing clashes between pro-democracy demonstrators ...
There was some eloquent PR spin from Crown Prince Salman al-Khalifa as he took a leisurely stroll around the Sakhir circuit paddock with F1's boss, Bernie Ecclestone. Both were mobbed by reporters naturally hungry for comment on the political-cum-social-cum-sporting situation (or fiasco depending on your point of view) in the kingdom, but only one of them really made an effort to answer the questions and offer valid thoughts on Bahrain's problems.
Labour leader Ed Miliband today urged David Cameron to add his voice to calls for the cancellation of the Bahrain Grand Prix. Miliband said that it...
Formula One chiefs have been urged by Labour to cancel this weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix amid continued clashes between police and anti-government pro...
How could you possibly resist reading a book which has a title like: Tahrir: The Last 18 Days of Mubarak?
Islamic extremists must not be allowed to pervert fledgling democracies and persecute minorities, David Cameron has warned. Delivering a speech in ...
Western diplomats are appalled that the deadline for the withdrawal of Syrian government forces from towns has come and gone without any change in the situation on the ground.
Syrian forces opened fire on refugees who fled into a Turkish camp as violence spilled over the country's borders ahead of a fragile ceasefire deadlin...
A plan to end the violence in Syria was in ruins on Monday after rebels rejected last-minute demands by President Bashar al-Assad ahead of a critical ...
Having recently come back from a few days in Tunisia, meeting with the President, members of the major political parties and the youth who were so courageously at the forefront of the movement to topple the dictatorial regime of Ben Ali - it is clear that the eyes of the world are firmly fixed on Tunisia's journey to democracy.
Something went wrong with Hezbollah, but the Party of God is yet to acknowledge the problem and deal with it.
The Syrian government is unlikely to survive the year-long uprising which has left more than 9,000 dead, the president's exiled uncle had claimed. ...
Syrian protesters fighting President Bashar al-Assad have a new tool in their arsenal: an internet meme. Buried in the revelations revealed by a le...
The wife of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is banned from travelling to the European Union, after being added to a list of "undesirables." Howeve...
Reports are coming in of a car bomb explosion in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Reports are sketchy at this stage. The Syrian Observatory for Human ...
A war photographer injured in Syria told protesters outside the country's embassy in London on Saturday that he was sorry for the world's slow respons...
