The surge in popularity of an anti-Sisi hashtag has been seized on by prominent Egyptian pundits as both evidence of the depravity of the military leader’s opponents as well as the necessity of a ban on Twitter.
The announcement that his administration would consider allowing shipments of air defense systems to Syrian rebels should help Obama as he heads into talks with the Saudis who have previously lobbied for this exact measure.
A well-timed diplomatic coup for Najib in the midst of perhaps the biggest international embarrassment ever for the Malaysian government.
Far from rallying regional solidarity, the annual forum has only highlighted the major rifts that continue to divide the Arab world.
Efforts by Egypt’s military-backed government to clean the country not only of its political critics but also of businessmen with close ties to ousted President Hosni Mubarak extended into soccer this week.
A new proposal, which would put same-sex acts on the level of such crimes as rape, terrorism, and human trafficking, follows the enactment of similarly harsh anti-gay legislative measures in Uganda and Nigeria in a worrying trend of targeting gays for political point-scoring.
The verdict in the murder of a single police officer during rioting last summer is an aggressive entry in an already severe crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.
The intensifying reaction to his government’s attempt to block the network is now threatening to eclipse the very scandal that prompted the ban in the first place.
Alongside the clear political fractures that have emerged in the region are also less obvious cultural shifts that have quietly begun to transform and redefine the old order.
Sri Lanka has taken the controversial step of arresting two of its most prominent political activists ahead of an expected censure of its human rights record by the United Nations next week.
