Arab Spring Quite Costly, Says Arab League Official

The Arab Spring has come with a cost not just in human life but has also had an economic effect, according to figures released Sunday. According to the data, the ...

Mohammed Bouazizi, Historical Figure; How the Middle East Upheavals Began

by Daniel Pipes National Review Online April 20, 2011 The self-immolation on Dec. 17, 2010 of an obscure Tunisian, Mohammed Bouazizi, set off a political firestorm across the Middle East ...

Hamas Will Focus on Arab Spring-Style Protests Against Israel

Hamas will focus on holding Arab Spring-style mass protests against Israel but is not renouncing the use of violence against the Jewish state, leader Khaled Mashaal told The Associated Press ...

Analysis: Hamas ‘Pragmatism’ a Dubious Fad

The success of Islamist parties in North Africa during the Arab Spring has inspired the Hamas terror organization to rebrand itself as ‘pragmatic.’ Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since seizing ...

U.S. Official: Syria’s Assad is ‘Dead Man Walking’

The United States predicted on Wednesday that the downfall of Syrian President Bashar Assad is imminent, The Associated Press reported. According to the report Frederic Hof, a senior official in ...

A Year of Dishonest Reporting — Why The Guardian Won

It was a landslide. HonestReporting readers were asked to choose this year’s Dishonest Reporting Award, and they spoke out — with a vengeance we haven’t seen for nominations in previous years. ...

Turkish President Slams Israel, Hails Hamas

Turkish president Abdullah Gul on Sunday said Israel should take advantage of the changes in the Middle East to achieve peace with the Palestinian Authority and the entire Arab world, ...

Egypt’s Sham Election

by Daniel Pipes and Cynthia Farahat National Review Online December 6, 2011 According to Egypt’s elections committee, the Muslim Brotherhood won 37 percent of the vote of the first round ...

Can Social Protesters Survive and Thrive without Base Camps?

The Occupy Wall Street Movement was the first to set up a tent city in the heart of New York’s financial district encouraging  copycat occupations in other American and foreign ...

Tahrir Again: “Now Everyone is Angry”

(New Yorker) More violent clashes in Tahrir Square, and the crowd is only growing larger and more determined after the revolution has turned to a undesirable twist for Egyptians.  The state security ...