Arab Democracy

Interim Tunisian President, Moncef Marzouki, has announced a proposal to complete the writing of Tunisia's constitution by April. It is hoped that this will allow for presidential elections to be...

Human rights activists in Saudi Arabia have confirmed that the Kingdom's security forces have detained the prominent academic Dr Mohsen Al Awaaji. It is believed that his political views,...

The government in Tunisia has arrested three of its own citizens and two people from the UAE on the grounds that they appear to have been creating conditions for...

A leading think-tank in Israel believes that the fall of the regime in Jordan "is no longer unlikely", a Jordanian website has claimed. The Khaberni site was quoting an...

Dr Sadaqa bin Yahya, the political adviser to the King of Saudi Arabia and a member of the Saudi Shura Council, called on Egypt, in an interview with Al-Jazeera,...

News websites reported that the daughter of Dubai's ruler resented the United Arab Emirates continued support of the Egyptian army's suppression of supporters of the deposed President Mohamed Morsi....

Saudi Arabia appears to be determined to crack down on the Muslim Brotherhood in a manner similar to the UAE, where security services have already arrested over 90 members...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has reopened opportunities for Egyptian teachers after they were suspended in the aftermath of the 25 January uprising. Applicants would, however, have to prove...

Kuwait's Administrative Court is considering an urgent motion demanding that it blocks a decision by the government to grant Egypt $5 billion in aid. Describing the decision by the...

Jordanian journalists are accusing their country's government of interfering in the editorial policy of their newspaper. The journalists working at Al-Rai Newspaper, the biggest daily in Jordan, announced on...

Syria's Muslim Brotherhood has revealed that its members have now finished their deliberations about launching a political party to represent the Brotherhood, deciding to do so under the name...

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai has issued a decree on Saturday appointing a new Commander in Chief...

Former head of the Al-Jazeera News Network Waddah Khanfar has argued that it would be wise for Saudi Arabia to quickly reconcile with its Arab neighbours, especially regarding Egypt,...

Oman is gaining an increasing significance in the Gulf region at a time when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is gradually losing its role and importance. In a pronounced...

A report from the Egyptian Centre for Media Studies and Public Opinion has revealed that most people in Egypt are opposed to the removal of President Mohammed Morsi from...

The Yemeni activist and Nobel peace laureate, Tawakkol Karman, has said that accusations of "spying" against President Mohamed Morsi are a "farce". She pointed out that establishing international contacts...

Seven protesters were killed and about 100 were wounded in Al-Nahda Square on Monday night as undercover police attempted to disperse a demonstration in the area. Local sources said...

Nigeria's rejection of Adli Mansour's delegation shed light on the increasing number of countries that have rejected the July 3 coup against President Mohammad Morsi. The number of countries...

The head of the Renaissance Party in Tunisia's governing coalition, Rachid Al-Ghanouchi, considers what is happening in Egypt including the dismissal of the former President Mohammad Morsi a "democratic...

Libya's Mufti Sheikh Al-Sadeq al-Gharyani has called what happened in Egypt a "coup on legitimacy" as a president, who was chosen through elections monitored and respected by international parties,...

In his last tweet before his detention, former parliamentarian Essam Sultan reflected on the past as he wrote about the American and British occupations who had their own ways...

A new scandal for coup supporters in Egypt has emerged after Egyptian ON TV, which is backed by Coptic businessman Naguib Sawiris, accidently aired a discussion between the billionaire...

Two prominent anti-coup politicians have been arrested by the interim authorities in Egypt. Former parliamentarian Essam Sultan and Abul Ela Madi were detained, it is believed, for articulating their...

Prominent writer and journalist Wael Qandil said on Saturday that Egypt is living through a period of time that could be called "the stage of eliminating the effects of...

A senior official of Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), Ali Belhadj, has called on the Egyptian and Tunisian leaders to "learn from the Algerian experience and prevent it from...

The head of Tunisia's Al-Nahda Party has said that the dissolution of the National Constituent Assembly is a red line that cannot be crossed. Shaikh Rashid Ghannouchi added that...

The Deputy Head of Tunisia's Al-Nahda Party said on Sunday that the Islamic movement is ready to accept any solution aimed at ending the transitional period in order to...

A recent field study indicates that the number of Egyptians opposed to the overthrow of Dr Mohammed Morsi as President has risen to 69 per cent. Only around 25...

The 85-year old organization remains committed to peaceful protest, as it exhorts all Egyptians – young and old, Muslims and Christians – to join ranks and wrest their rights...

A study conducted by the Egyptian Centre for Media Studies and Public Opinion revealed that 79 per cent of Egyptians believe the massacres on Wednesday are crimes against humanity....

Hamdeen Sabahi, Egypt's former presidential candidate, revealed a disturbed sense of reality during an interview with Saudi newspaper Asharq Al Awsat today. Sabahi was quoted as saying: "I do...

A close confidante of the president of Egypt overthrown by the January 25th Revolution has revealed that the government of Saudi Arabia offered the then military chief Field Marshal...