On Friday, the headlines read that Tahrir Square was burning. Soldiers and military police raided the square in an unprecedented bout of violence and brutality, firing weapons and using batons and...
One of the most reliable truisms in international relations is that military governments are not, by definition, democratizing ones. They are self-serving. When their interests coincide with those of...
One of the most striking and moving images from the Egyptian Revolution was a line of Coptic Christians, linking arms and protecting the Muslims from the military police during their call to prayer....
There was much celebrating yesterday as rebel forces, aided by increased NATO surveillance, moved into Tripoli. Though fighting continues in pockets throughout Tripoli—most notably over Gaddafi’s...
In February, the world watched in awe as Egyptians converged on Cairo’s Tahrir Square to peacefully overthrow the autocratic regime of Hosni Mubarak. The previous overthrow of Ben Ali in Tunisia...
Like the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, the one in Syria, the product of decades of fierce repression, was sparked by more immediate acts of defiance. As political analyst Emma Sky was told that...
Governments throughout the Middle East are responding to pro-democracy protests with brutal crackdowns. Even in Egypt, so recently the site of so much public euphoria and jubilation, the military...
June 5, 2011 marked the forty-fourth anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War, when Israel annexed the West Bank and Gaza strip. Palestinians commemorate the day as Yawm an-Naksa, their “Day of...
Saturday night the news broke that Yemeni president and dictator Ali Abdallah Saleh had been critically injured and flown to Saudi Arabia. Many remembered Tunisian ex-dictator Zine El Abidine Ben...
May 15th marks the simultaneous anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel, and the mass expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians from their land. While Israelis celebrate their independence...