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Breaking News: Egypt Declares State of Emergency After Protestors Killed by Security Forces

The transitional government of Egypt has declared a national state of emergency after scores of protestors were killed by Egyptian government security forces. [BBC]

Breaking News: Egyptian President Morsi Overthrown in Military Coup d’Etat

Egyptians Await Coup As Military Deadline Approaches

Egyptians await action from the military as the deadline provided to the government of Mohammed Morsi approaches. It is believed to be the first time in modern history that a military has signaled its intention to stage a coup d’etat. Popular with the protesters in Cairo, the Egyptian military has increasingly acted as a check-and-balance […]

American Exchange Student Killed During Egyptian Riots

American exchange student to Egypt Andrew Driscoll Pochter, a student at Kenyon College in Ohio and in Egypt as part of the Amideast exchange program, was fatally stabbed during a protest in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Pochter was not a protester but an innocent bystander and a victim of a senseless crime in a country […]

Protestors in Guangzhou Decry the People’s Republic of China’s Strict Censorship Laws

Protests in the Chinese state of Guangzhou have erupted after a New Year’s editorial in the newspaper Southern Weekend was censored and transformed into a more pro-Communist Party of China message than the reformist manifesto it was prior to censorship. The editorial apparently exhorted the government in Beijing to enforce the rights guaranteed to the Chinese […]

Is Tunisia a Model for Revolution?

Is Tunisia a model for revolution? If so, in what ways is it a model and how can this be applied elsewhere? It has drawn up a constitution. There were free and fair elections. One year later, will the Jasmine Revolution fulfill its promise to the Tunisian people? [Al Jazeera]

The Kuwaiti Parliament is Dissolved.

The cabinet and the prime minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah have submitted their resignations to the emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah after revelations of corruption surfaced within the government once again. Six previous governments have collapsed due to similar reasons but this time the crowds are imitating the regional phenomenon of the Arab Spring and using […]

Elections in Egypt.

Egyptians are casting ballots for the first post-Mubarak parliamentary contests in a long awaited moment for Egypt’s revolutionary movement. Voters turned out in large numbers to vote for their candidates and proceedings went largely without incident with women and Coptic Christians reportedly arriving at polling stations in large numbers. This is the first of two […]

Moroccan Elections Won by Islamists.

News from Rabat about the recent Moroccan elections paints a positive outcome for the nation’s Islamist party which is believed to have benefitted greatly from its participation in the Arab Spring earlier this year. Islamist parties have tended to fare well in the public’s view given their opposition to many of the region’s long-standing dictators. […]

Has the Arab Spring Cemented A Russian-Chinese Global Alliance?

Foreign Policy’s article “The Axis of No,” by Dmitri Trenin, argues that the events of the Arab Spring and the toppling of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East has contributed to a tightening of relations between the Chinese and Russians who have positioned themselves in opposition to United Nations’ backed maneuvers to aid the collapse […]