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Published in: HomeWhat we're reading - June 25, 2012Our readers help us highlight what they are reading about the Arab Spring from around the web...
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Published in: HomeMy friend has a story
This isn’t my story. But it could have been, and it can be the story of any young Palestinian living in this small...
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Published in: HomeThis week's window on the Middle East - June 25, 2012
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East....
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Published in: HomeThe trend of ‘wiping’ ElJokh (sucking up)… one of the oldest inventions of the Syrian regime
An elJokh wiper is a person who tries to gain personal influence from ‘sucking up’ to the powerful and rich.
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Published in: HomeGetting real in Tunisia
Some people think they’re entitled to more money just because Ben Ali is gone, when ironically, the country has only...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s morning after: against Dictatorship 2.0
With Egypt’s first elected leader, Mohamed Morsi, SCAF is no longer going to be grooming a fourth military dynasty...
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Published in: HomeEgypt's democracy, still an elusive dream
Next Saturday, June 30, the date set by the SCAF for their formal handing over of power and return to the barricades...
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Published in: HomeObserving the Arab uprisings
Supporting al-Assad’s regime and calling the Syrian uprising an American plot is an irresponsible position, since...
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Published in: HomeBahrain: throwing the steering wheel out of the window
Over the past year or so, the government and the opposition have both been locked in a game of chicken.
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Published in: HomeFires and politics in Doha, a worrying combination
No smoke without fire? Events in the Arab world are becoming more and more interlinked, and more and more -...
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Published in: Home‘Our revolution is not a rumour’
Their excuse – that they are busy drafting the constitution – just isn’t convincing.
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Published in: HomeThe scramble for democracy: who is in Tahrir Square?
Meanwhile a Christian Egyptian friend of mine called me from Tahrir Square. He was crying, and I honestly thought...
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Published in: HomeJordan: smoke, mirrors and election laws
‘Confusing? That’s the point! The Government has upgraded “Divide and Conquer” to “Confuse and Conquer”’.
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Published in: HomeErdogan vs women: the abortion debateIs it a coincidence that a woman minister’s ideas overlap with many Turkish men’s ideas? We really need some of...
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Published in: HomeLibya: Protecting Amazigh, Toubou, and migrants alike
I am deeply disturbed to find myself confronted with a widespread and flagrant disregard for the basic human rights...
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Published in: HomeWhy all the fuss over Fujairah?
Behind the sabre rattling, analysts should not overlook growing relationships between the emirates and Asian countries.
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Published in: HomeTunisian arts spark Salafist spring
The result so far of what seems to be a never-ending controversy over blasphemy in Tunisia sometimes seems to be...
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Published in: HomePalestinians in Lebanon: Weathering Syria’s encroaching stormDespite containing both vehement (and often armed) supporters and opponents of Assad, Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee...
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Published in: HomeSyrian schoolchildren in the diary of revolution
The new generations of children and students have been inspired by the revolutionary uprising that has spread...
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Published in: HomeLibyan resilience on a hot day in June
While Libyans are quietly proving that they can forgive, forget and move forward together, the current political and...
