Online activists urge Syrian public to take to the streets in mass ‘Your Silence Kills Us’ protests; activist statement condemns ‘Arab silence at what is taking place in Syria.’ Syrian activists have called for mass protests on Friday…
Thousands filled a sandy plaza here Saturday to demonstrate against Senegal’s president, Abdoulaye Wade, who is trying to extend his time in office in what critics say is a violation of the country’s Constitution. The attempt by the…
Moez Joudi, left, a co-founder of Al Watan party, attends a training session for members at the party headquarters in Tunis. Lindsay Mackenzie for The National TUNIS // In 1989, when Issam Belhaj turned 20 – then the age of…
Belarusian plainclothes policemen block a central street to protect it from an opposition action ‘Revolution via social network’ in Minsk, Belarus, July 7. The center of Minsk is teeming with police preparing for the next in a…
Belarusian detainee, arrested during the flash mob ‘Revolution through social network,’ gestures from a prison cell at a detention center in Minsk, Belarus, on July 7. Sergei Grits/AP As the Belarusian government crackdown becomes increasingly aggressive, Internet-savvy protesters…
No matter how it unfolds, the Egyptian revolution will go down in the history books as a defining moment in the 21st century. Millions of Egyptians brought down one of the world’s most repressive regimes, that of the…
Teresita Cruz-del Rosario is a Visiting Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. (Illustration by Amarjit Sidhu) It is easy to explain the current protests in Malaysia as an instance of the winds of the…
The fall of the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt has produced prolific analysis by media commentators across the spectrum. Some of this analysis has been excellent, but much of the conventional media interpretation of the why, how and…
Last week, the U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, made an extraordinary trip to the besieged city of Hama. His visit was meant to support tens of thousands of peaceful demonstrators holding olive branches and roses in a…
On Sunday, July 3, the people of Belarus celebrated the 1944 withdrawal of Nazi forces at the hands of the Red Army; the day that is considered by the government to be Independence Day. However, rather than being…