CAIRO: The victory of the Libyan revolution, the more-than-cosmetic reforms in Jordan and Morocco, and the escalation of revolutionary attempts to oust Bashar Assad in Syria and Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen signal that the wind is still blowing in (...)
The story of the "Arab spring" is still unfolding. Complex trends and dynamics can be observed in a variety of countries that are going through different stages of rapid change.
Some revolutions in the region have already toppled regimes, as in (...)
It was one sole paragraph in one article of a multi-article agreement that triggered a semi-crisis situation among the Nile basin states. Paragraph B, article 14 turned a promise of regional cooperation into tension and a threat to the national (...)
Almost six years after the great terrorist attack of 9/11, Al-Qaeda remains an active terrorist organization. With its Taliban allies, it dominates regions along the Afghan-Pakistani border. It is making the life of NATO forces and the Afghan (...)
Egypt confronts a double problem on its northeastern borders - both Palestinian and Israeli. The two problems are intertwined and have interacted over the past six decades or so. However, they are also different, or at least require different sets (...)
