The trial of 43 NGO employees in Egypt, the proceedings of which have been denounced by U.S. officials, has been postponed until December 2. The employees were charged with “leading unregistered organizations and receiving illegal foreign funding.” However, ...

Egypt’s Higher Court declined to rule on the legality of the drafting committee of Egypt’s Constitution Tuesday, sending the decision to the supreme constitutional court. Opposition leaders rejected an invitation from President Mohammed Morsi ...

Stephen McInerney, Executive Director of the Project on Middle East Democracy, wrote a recent article in the Huffington Post encouraging the "United States to embrace the historic changes in the by taking action to support democratic transitions ...

Mohammed Morsi continues to face criticism regarding his time in office. A Cairo based human rights group, Nadim Center, reported that the Egyptian president has failed to meet his promise of reducing abuses by security forces. The group reports that ...

Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabeh al-Ahmad al-Sabah has "called upon all people to work together to maintain stability, security and national unity," after he issued a decree dissolving parliament.  In response, opposition groups warned "the current intentions of ...

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of downtown Amman on October 5 to call for a boycott of the upcoming parliamentary elections. The demonstration was the largest since weekly protests began in early 2011. Jordanian opposition groups ...

In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, expressed concerns and raised a number of questions ...

On Tuesday (10/2), the Wilson Center hosted two panel discussion in their series entitled; "Women after the Arab Awakening." The first panel, "Today's View from the Ground", featured Dalia Ziada, Executive Director of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies ...

King Abdullah II announced  that Jordan will elect a new Parliament by the beginning of next year, amid fears of violence as pro-government and opposition forces called for protests this Friday. The protest organizers, including the Muslim Brother ...

State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland explained that due to concern from Congress over the recently-announced $450 million of assistance pledged to Egypt, the State Department is "going to have to work with the Congress in the coming days ...

King Abdullah II of Jordan appeared on The Daily Show September 25  to discuss the ramifications of the Arab Spring. Abdullah said, "Jordan is part of the Arab Spring, but all countries have been affected differently." He pointed out that ...

Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi will be landing in New York on Sunday, for the U.N. General Assembly amidst criticism over Egypt's response to last week's demonstrations. Egyptian officials condemned the violence, but expressed sympathy for the public’s anger ...

Egypt's president Mohamed Morsi formally requested a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) during his meeting with IMF chief Christine Lagarde. Negotiations between the IMF and Egypt has spanned more than a year, and the ...

State-owned Al-Akhbar newspaper has announced that the paper will reduce the number of opinion pages from three to two, and will preference staff writers over independent contributors, in a move widely seen as an attempt to silence critics of the Muslim Brotherhood. ...

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi ordered Minister of Defense Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi to retire Sunday, along with Chief of Staff Sami Enan. Morsi then appointed military intelligence chief Abdel Fatah El-Sisi to succeed Tantawi and Sedky Sobhy to replace Enan. The move came after ...

The Secretary General of Egypt's Constitutional Assembly, Amr Darrag, announced Tuesday that the country's new constitution will be drafted by the week's end. According to Darrag, all committees have finished reviewing proposals and will submit their suggestions to the drafting committee, who will ...

The Libyan Ministry of the Interior announced Saturday a ban on all unlicensed protests, which some believe will include strikes as well. All future protests will require the permission of the Interior Ministry, and all unauthorized protesters will ...