Politics
A focus on what drives and determines political power in the region.
Andam Omar, like many young men in their twenties, enjoys the ever-developing face of Erbil, the de facto capital of Kurdish Iraq. At the new—and expansive—Tablo Mall he bowls, poses for pictures by a miniature air hockey table, and eats popcorn. Yet on Wednesday, Andam Omar, faced the limits of that modernity when he was pulled from a police truck by his belt for snapping photos of a passing protest.
Omar is a member of the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU), a charity organization with a...
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On the eve of the first parliamentary elections in Egypt since the downfall of the Mubarak regime, Egyptians stood divided. The final week of November was blighted by the death of over 40 people and the wounding of more than two thousand protesters and security officials in protests that were spurred by a peaking frustration with the rule of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces. They were calling for a handover of power from the Military Council to civilians. It was a demand coming from wide ...
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Thursday, 1 Dec, 2011
The press conference was set to start at noon, but at one the long table at the front of the tightly packed room remained empty. The cameramen were still jostling to set up their...
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Friday, 25 Nov, 2011
The Arab world is facing its most turbulent year since 1973, and there are no signs that the Spring—which became an Autumn and now a Winter—has any signs of tapering off. I...
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Tuesday, 22 Nov, 2011
Gamal Abdel Nasser, was a unique politician. Although it has been more than four decades since his death, his politics still inspire many. The Nasserist Ideology is n...
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Saturday, 19 Nov, 2011
Less than a year ago, when the first tremulous shoots of the Arab Spring were pushing through North African clay, practically every political analyst and commentator agreed tha...
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Friday, 18 Nov, 2011
Daniel Yergin is a leading energy analyst and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Prize, is highly regarded in the oil industry. Yergin currently serves as the Chairman of Cam...
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Tuesday, 15 Nov, 2011
The office of Professor Mohammed Morsy does not look like the lair of a man who will soon become one of Egypt’s premier political players.
About 10ft square with a pot pla...
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Friday, 11 Nov, 2011
Sultan Al-Qassemi, a political commentator from a new generation in the Gulf, has become a leading voice on Twitter during the Arab Spring. With thousands of tweets and fol...
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Wednesday, 9 Nov, 2011
One of the most telling developments of the Libyan uprising was the flight of senior members of the Qadhafi family, including Muammar Qadhafi’s wife and three of his children...
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