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Revolutionary Situation in Libya
After the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi fell to the protest movement on Sunday, clashes broke out in the Libyan capital of Tripoli late that […]
Alimagham: What Egypt & Tunisia Tell us About Iran
Pouya Alimagham writes in a guest column for Informed Comment What the Egyptian and Tunisian Revolutions Tell Us about Iran There has been much debate […]
Top Five Myths about the Middle East Protests
5. Dear right wing blogosphere and also Bill Maher: You can’t generalize about women’s position in Muslim countries based on a reprehensible mob attack on […]
Days of Rage in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain
ITN has video on Friday’s dramatic protests in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain (for the latter scroll down). Some 80 protesters have been killed in the […]
50,000 Protest in Bahrain Before Another Bloody Crackdown
Breaking News: Bahrain security forces appear to have run out of ammunition at the downtown Pearl Roundabout, as thousands of Shiite protesters flooded in Saturday […]
Iraq Roiled by Protests, 2 Killed in Sulaimaniya
What I can’t understand is, if the American Right Wing were correct that George W. Bush was ‘right’ in trying to kick start democracy in […]
Bahrain Shiites Withdraw from Parliament, Call for King’s Overthrow
Members of parliament from the Shiite Wifaq Party, which had 18 of 40 seats in the lower house of the Bahrain legislature, have resigned en […]
The Great Arab Revolt: Cole in the Nation
My essay is out in The Nation, entitled “The Great Arab Revolt”. ‘These governments took steps in recent decades toward neoliberal policies of privatization and […]
Egypt Situation Still Explosive
The military government of Gen. Mohammad Hussein Tantawi, the minister of defense, has taken important steps toward mollifying the Jan. 25 protest movement, but it […]
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