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 ...

Occupy Heading Toward Total Social Decay and Violent Riots

By B Lopiccolo In the past few weeks Americans have watched with interest, bemusement and anger as protests and sit-ins on Wall Street have sparked similar demonstrations around the country. ...

Turkey Working to Impose the Libyan Model on Syria

Turkey may have bungled relief efforts for the earthquake victims, but then Turkey has bigger fish to fry. Turkey has been increasingly asserting its control over the Syrian opposition to ...

Obama’s Misplaced Mideast Optimism

by Daniel Pipes National Review Online October 25, 2011 Confidently commenting on the execution of Libya’s long-time dictator, Barack Obama stated that “the death of Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi showed that our ...

UK Immigration Board: Ra’ed Salah ‘Undesirable,’ Should be Deported

Ra’ed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement in Israel’s northern branch, is “undesirable” and can be deported from the United Kingdom, a British immigration board decided Wednesday. Salah, the ...

Obama Succeeds: Libya’s new leader declares an Islamic state

Posted By Blake Hounshell In February, when Libya erupted in spontaneous protests that quickly turned into an armed revolt, Muammar al-Qaddafi and his son Seif al-Islam had a ready response: ...

Protests in Boston, Wall Street, San Fran, LA, Chicago- Are Riots Next?

In New York the, ‘Occupy Wall street’ protest group took to the streets again for the second time in twenty four hours. One section of the demonstration attempted to cross ...

Egyptians Storm Israeli Embassy in Violent Rage, Cairo

Egyptian protesters have broken into the Israeli Embassy in a high-rise building in Cairo and are dumping hundreds of Hebrew documents off the balcony. Hundreds of protesters have been converging ...