The Arab Spring Is Not Over Yet .. BY Abdelrahman Mansour

Major protests in Algeria and Sudan show that the spirit of 2011 lives on.   When Wael Ghonim and I called for protests through the Facebook page “We Are All Khaled Said”... Read more »

The World Bank must reject Trump’s nominee to lead it

John Podesta, the chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, served as counselor to President Barack Obama and chief of staff to President Bill Clinton. Kristina Costa is a senior fellow at... Read more »

The dishonest smearing of Ilhan Omar … By Paul Waldman

In what is surely the most shameful decision of her current term as speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has decided that the time has come for the House to rebuke Rep. Ilhan Omar... Read more »

THE DEEP STATE CONSUMES ITSELF .. by WADAH KHANFAR

Eight years ago this month, the Egyptian people ousted their long-ruling, aging autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power. People were jubilant, hopeful and forward-looking in Tahrir square. This was a rare moment: ever... Read more »

Lessons From the Only Remaining Arab Spring Democracy : What does Tunisia’s survival mean for the rest of the region ? .. By Bobby Ghosh

Lina Ben Mhenni is struggling to keep faith with the revolution. When we first met, in the early, heady months of the 2011 Arab Spring, the charismatic blogger-activist, then 27, was widely... Read more »

A big warning sign for Trump’s 2020 reelection effort in this new poll .. By Aaron Blake

It has not been a good couple of weeks for President Trump’s poll numbers. While they’ve been relatively steady throughout his two years in the White House, the government shutdown has pushed his... Read more »

Tunisia Risks Explosion Over Austerity, Ghannouchi Cautions IMF

By Samer Al-Atrush and Jihen Laghmari     Pressure from global lenders like the International Monetary Fund could put Tunisia’s post-revolution stability at risk, cautioned Rashid Ghannouchi, head of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party that is... Read more »

More Schools and Fewer Tanks for the Mideast .. By Thomas L. Friedman

President Trump’s sudden announcement that he’s pulling U.S. troops out of Syria and shrinking their number in Afghanistan has prompted a new debate about American ground forces in the Middle East and... Read more »

Tunisia strike deadline looms amid social tensions .. By Lamine Ghanmi 

“The general strike … will be a turning point in the history of Tunisia and a watershed moment for the country.”   Leaders of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) travelled the country... Read more »

Secret Alliance: Israel Carries Out Airstrikes in Egypt, With Cairo’s O.K. …By David D. Kirkpatrick

The jihadists in Egypt’s Northern Sinai had killed hundreds of soldiers and police officers, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, briefly seized a major town and begun setting up armed checkpoints to claim territory. In late 2015,... Read more »