[caption id="attachment_55227211" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="An enthusiastic Tunisian casts his vote"][/caption] As predicted, the moderate Islamist party, Ennahda, has won more votes…

[caption id="attachment_55227200" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Fire and Water, 2010, Mounira Al-Solh"][/caption] In the past decade, Lebanese artists known as the post-civil war…

[caption id="attachment_55227143" align="aligncenter" width="611" caption="Tunisians celebrate the success of Ennahdha at the polls"][/caption] Tunisia has voted. As anticipated, it seems that the…

[caption id="attachment_55227132" align="aligncenter" width="619" caption="Some anti-Mubarak graffiti in Cairo, a hallmark of the Egyptian Uprising"][/caption] Early one morning last week, 21-year…

[caption id="attachment_55227124" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Qadhafi's unseemly demise may have started the new Libya off on the wrong foot"][/caption] On Sunday Libya was finally…

[caption id="attachment_55227048" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="The Palestinian UN chair, on display in Tunis"][/caption] Nearly a month ago, the Palestinian Liberation Organization …

[caption id="attachment_55226971" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A tattered banner depicting Muammar Qaddafi hangs from a building during a street battle in the center of the city on…

[caption id="attachment_55227008" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A young Tunisian couple stroll past an election campaign poster"][/caption] It is a few days until the first democratic…

[caption id="attachment_55226948" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Gene Cretz"][/caption] For the first time in eight months, the American flag was raised over the US embassy in Tripoli…

[caption id="attachment_55226925" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Egyptians gather in Tahrir square, to mourn those who died in last week's violence"][/caption] The fallout from last…