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, ...

The European Union awarded its Sakharov Prize for Human Rights and Freedom of Thought to two Iranian activists on October 26. Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and filmmaker Jafar Panahi, both currently imprisoned by the Iranian regime, were awarded the ...

A week after the first ever U.S.-Algeria Strategic Dialogue took place, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton travelled to Algeria with State Department officials to discuss how best to strengthen the U.S.-Algerian relationship amid concerns over the situation in Mali. “Algeria’s ...

Over 515,000 Palestinians have registered to vote in Saturday's West Bank municipal elections, Central Elections Commission director Hisham Khahil said. For the first time in seven years, West Bank residents will head to the polls to participate in ...

Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, head of Saudi Arabia's Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, said he hoped to implement a recruitment drive aimed at adding women to the force. The religious police, known as the ...

The British Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee opened a review of the U.K.'s relationships with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, following its report on the Arab Spring's democracy movement. The inquiry explores how the U.K. balances various interests in defense, trade, security, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fifteen former political prisoners from the Ben Ali era have stationed themselves at a Tunisian border crossing and threaten to enter Algeria by force if their demands to be compensated are not met. The group seeks remuneration from ...

Habib Khedher, the committee head in charge of drafting Tunisia's new constitution, announced that the document will not be ready until February 2013, four months later than the October 2012 date promised by the government until now. A ...

Iran hosted representatives from 30 countries in Tehran Thursday to discuss a way forward in Syria, one which the Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said must be based on "serious and comprehensive dialogue." Those in attendance included Russia, China, ...

Tunisia's ruling Ennahda party introduced legislation this week that would punish blasphemy by up to two years in prison for first time offenses and by up to four years for repeat offenders. Subjects covered under the proposed law ...

Photo Credit: Reuters Saudi Arabian security forces opened fire on Shia protesters demonstrating Friday in city of Qatif in the latest round of unrest in the kingdom's Eastern Province. The shots injured  several of the hundreds marching in ...

Iranian authorities arrested Mahmoud Bagheri Monday to serve out a suspended jail sentence in connection with his criticisms of the government as a leader in the Iranian Teachers Union. In a letter to Ayatollah Larijani, the Teachers Union called for Bagheri ...

Government crackdowns in Bahrain are intensifying this week with increased police checkpoints and house raids. Said Yousif of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights compared the heightened police presence to an imposition of martial law. Jen Marlow, the American filmmaker who was ...