Anti-government protesters take to the streets across Lebanon for the third day in a row as well as pro-government crowds rallying in favour of the embattled president. Thousands descended on Lebanon’s streets across the country [ More … ]
Reports of curfews in Iraq southern cities and nationwide internet access largely cut off as anti-gov’t rallies turn violent. At least three protesters and one policeman have been killed in Iraq‘s southern city of Nasiriya, according [ More … ]
Egyptians take to the streets demanding Sisi’s removal Thousands of pro-democracy protesters have marched in cities across Egypt to demand the resignation of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Videos posted on social media showed demonstrators chanting [ More … ]
Eight years after the Arab Spring transfixed the world, the Middle East has once again lit up with protest. In April, popular movements in Algeria and Sudan forced the ouster of two long-serving autocrats: Algerian [ More … ]
Egypt’s youth should find a way to put aside their differences in favour of becoming a unified front in the face of oppression, writes Karsen Breanne. In the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, the shabab [ More … ]
The ousting of former Sudan president, Omar Al-Bashir, has left various factions within the military battling for control of the state. Since the military ouster of Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir, early on Thursday, 11 April, after three [ More … ]
AFTER THREE DECADES in power, Sudan’s Omar-al-Bashir was ousted following months of protests by the Sudanese. Speaking on State television 2 days ago, Defence Minister Awad Ibnouf announced Bashir had been removed from power and [ More … ]
Longtime president says he quit to let citizens ‘take Algeria to the better future they aspire to’. Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has resigned with immediate effect, according to state media, ceding power in the face of massive street [ More … ]
Much of the news these weeks could be about Iran — past, present and future. Forty years ago, the Islamic revolution was at its height. last week, there was a U.S.-organized ministerial meeting in Warsaw to discuss [ More … ]
On the eighth anniversary of the 25 January revolution, a group of Egyptian opposition in exile voices concern about the state of the nation today The Middle East Eye published today (25 January) an article [ More … ]
Sisi crushes spirit of Arab Spring in Egypt: Activists ‘opened the gates of hell’ Just two years ago, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi celebrated the Egyptian masses who launched the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak, saying [ More … ]
A recording of the head of Tunisia’s private TV station, Nessma, was leaked on April 17, detailing threats and intimidation against a civil society group fighting corruption in the country. In the audio footage, the [ More … ]
Thousands protested in northeastern Tunisia on Thursday to mark a general strike over unemployment and poverty, six years since a revolution ignited by similar grievances. Demonstrators gathered at the local branch of the powerful UGTT [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* The constitutional referendum is the final point of Turkey’s systemic transformation. In President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s words, it is transcending the “critical threshold.” As a result of a painful struggle, mostly in the [ More … ]
By: Yasin Aktay * Following many historical events it is always said that things will never be the same in Turkey again… This phrase obviously suits July 15 the most. Everything really has changed in [ More … ]
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