[caption id="attachment_55229704" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="A Tunisian youth joins a crowd under a looming portrait of Mohammed Bouazizi"][/caption] While it was largely the youth who…

[caption id="attachment_55229671" align="aligncenter" width="433" caption="Asef Shawkat (center) attends the funeral of Hafez Al-Assad"][/caption] Asef Shawkat began his political career as a…

[caption id="attachment_55229659" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Supporters of Tunisia's Ennadha party chant slogans at a campaign rally, in October 2011"][/caption] “How did that…

[caption id="attachment_55229641" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff sees the benefits of allying with the US rather than Iran"][/caption] Recent remarks by…

[caption id="attachment_55229626" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="David Cameron, (fourth left), leads the Somalia Conference at Lancaster House in London."][/caption] America has a problem…

[caption id="attachment_55229605" align="aligncenter" width="518" caption="A Palestinian girl in Gaza attends a demonstration against Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad and his regime"][/caption]…

[caption id="attachment_55229590" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Prime Minister Erdogan and his AKP party may move to reduce the powers of the judiciary"][/caption]The signs were growing…

[caption id="attachment_55229580" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Amr Moussa is the frontrunner for the Egyptian Presidency, but will the next president be left with any authority?"][…

On 14 January 2011, the first president to fall at the hands of protests in the Middle East departed Tunisia. The next twelve months have since become a historic period of profound transition and…

[caption id="attachment_55229390" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption=" Shirin Ebadi"][/caption] “In the last 23 years, from the day I was stripped of my judgeship to the years of doing battle…