July 2012
Phyllis Bennis
Many of the secular activists and organizations who had played such a central role in the Arab Spring uprising came together with the Muslim Brotherhood in a unified front to challenge the military's continuing seizure of power.
August 2011
Phyllis Bennis
Human rights standards may not be met in this trial, but the more essential purpose is to prove there's no going back to the days prior to the Tahrir revolution.
June 2011
Patrick Bond
Obama's speech on the Middle East and North Africa missed the point of the Arab uprising, and offered little sign of conciliation or support for the Palestinians.
May 2011
Tariq Ali
Phase one of the Arab spring is over. Phase two – the attempt to crush or contain genuine popular movements – has begun.
February 2011
Phyllis Bennis
After Egyptian President Mubarak defied the rising demand of millions of protesters and announced he will remain in office, the question is what happens next.
February 2011
Richard Falk
The overt age of grand empires gave way to the age of covert imperial hegemony, but now the edifice is crumbling.
February 2011
Tariq Ali
The age of political reason is returning to the Arab world. The people are fed up of being colonised and bullied. Meanwhile, the political temperature is rising in Jordan, Algeria and Yemen.
February 2011
Tariq Ali
The rediscovery of Arab solidarity against the repellent dictatorships
and those who sustain them is a new turning point in the Middle East.
February 2011
Salwa Ismail
Egyptians' experience of a police state is behind calls not just for Mubarak's resignation but a fundamental overhaul of state structures.
February 2011
Atilio Boron
The problem facing Obama is that of constructing “Mubarakism” without Mubarak, that is, to guarantee the continuity of the pro-American autocracy through an acceptable replacement recruited from the ranks of the regime.
