
(Photos: Francesco La Pia) Pro-king royalists violently quelled a February 20 movement protest in Rabat’s Old City, on the eve of Morocco’s much trumpeted referendum on the king’s proposed changes to the Constitution. «We are here to express…
Bahrain’s government says it has only tried a small number of those involved in recent mass protests [Reuters] Police and protesters have clashed in Bahrain after eight Shia Muslim activists accused of plotting a coup to overthrow the Gulf Arab state’s Sunni monarchy were sentenced to…
Words of Resistance in the Syrian Intifada We can trace what’s happening — and may yet happen — in Syria by what the protesters chant at their demonstrations: The slogans are already a history, a politics, a manifesto and a…