‘Prince of Damascus!"
“This is the Prince of Damascus (as he is known within the militant Islamist circles): he is one of the rebel leaders (a combination of Sufis and leftists ‘who drink’…folks who lead Syrian rebellion...
View ArticleLibyan liberals ‘lead polls’ in Tripoli, Benghazi
The leader of one of Libya's main Islamist parties said on Sunday that a rival liberal coalition had a solid advantage after the country's first election since the ouster of Moamer Kadhafi. Go to Source
View ArticleEgypt: President orders dissolved parliament back
Egypt's president on Sunday ordered the Islamist-dominated parliament to reconvene in defiance of a military decree dissolving the legislature last month on the basis of a ruling by the country's top...
View ArticleLibya’s Election (Editor’s Reader)
The Middle East Channel Editors Reader #6 Votes are being counted in yesterday’s historic election to select a temporary 200 member General National Congress in Libya. The voting process itself was...
View ArticleEgypt President locks horns with army by annulling dissolution of...
Egypt first democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi has issued a decree ordering the country’s Islamist-led parliament to reconvene. The Egyptian parliament was dissolved earlier by the … Go to...
View ArticleNew crisis loom over Egypt over legislature’s fate
A new showdown loomed in Egypt on Monday as the country's highest court stood by its ruling that dissolved parliament last month, challenging the new Islamist president's plans to reconvene the lower...
View ArticleNew crisis looms in Egypt over legislature’s fate
A new showdown loomed in Egypt on Monday as the country's highest court stood by its ruling that dissolved parliament last month, challenging the new Islamist president's plans to reconvene the lower...
View ArticleEgypt’s Morsi says will obey court ruling on parliament
Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi will respect a court ruling overturning his decree for the dissolved Islamist-dominated parliament to convene, his office said on Wednesday amid a power struggle with...
View ArticleOf liberals, secularists, Islamists and other labels
I want to discuss here the labels assigned to Arab political parties and politicians (if you want to get to that directly skip till the end of the following quotes), but before let me point out what...
View ArticleModerate but Islamist…
A variety of Islamophobes have comfortable media niches, including “opinion writer” Charles Krauthammer, whose Krauthammering away at Islam as a political force in yesterday’s Washington Post is yet...
View ArticleClinton in Egypt for first meeting with president
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham hoped to use her first meeting with Egypt's new Islamist president on Saturday to steer Mohammed Morsi toward opening a dialogue with the military that could end...
View ArticleClinton to Egypt’s Morsi: Find way out of crisis
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton used her first meeting with Egypt's new Islamist president to press Mohammed Morsi to start a dialogue with military leaders as a way of preserving the...
View ArticleMeet some of the armed Syrian groups lionized in the West
“The FSA’s leadership, a collection of mid-ranking Sunni Arab military defectors headed by Colonel Riyad Musa al-As’ad from a base in Turkey, is actively courting Western support and has unambiguously...
View ArticleOn "morality police" in Egypt
I did not get a chance to blog about the reports of Islamist morality vigilantism said to have caused the death of a young man in Suez a couple of weeks ago, but below are some links on the story....
View ArticleAshour on why Libya’s Islamists lost
Omar Ashour as a new column up at Project Syndicate explaining Libyan Islamists’ defeat at the hands of a wide-ranging ranging coalition of liberals, independents, conservatives, and, well, almost...
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