Reports have emerged that Bahraini security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse anti-government protesters demonstrating for greater rights. According to witnesses, hundreds of protesters took to the streets of predominantly Shi’ite villages around Manama, but no…
It was not in the headlines, but our neighbourhood has had its own ‘Arab Spring’. The Melanesian people of Indonesian-controlled West Papua, have shown the same determination to pursue non-violent struggle as their counterparts in Egypt and Syria. A…
The wives and fiancee of three jailed Belarusian opposition politicians say their lives are at risk, RFE/RL’s Belarus Service reports. The three women told journalists in Minsk on November 1 that they are urging the European Union «not…
Gene Sharp, an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and founder of the Albert Einstein Institution, is widely credited as one of the principal initiators of the Arab Spring. His 1993 book, “From Dictatorship…
A bicycle rider is inconspicuous in the old souks of Damascus. No one noticed as the rider pulled up to the front of a stall at the Hamadiyya souq in the mid-afternoon rush hour to chain one to…
A global ‘revolution’ is on and is spreading. What started as an attempt to occupy Wall Street offices, the headquarters of American capitalism, by a few hundred people a few months ago has spread throughout America and now gone global.…
With their demands for the Ministry of Interior to be reformed and purged of convicted former minister Habib El-Adly’s appointees, non-commissioned officers refuse to give in to pressure to end their strike Angry non-commissioned police officers have decided…
The October 19 death of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi allows us to see more clearly an underlying force at work in the Arab Awakening. From Tunisia to Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, movements have sought to end the presumption of…
Syria’s nascent opposition appears divided on a fundamental question: whether to take up arms or remain peaceful in its efforts to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. Despite reports that an army of Syrian defectors will soon begin a military campaign…
The members of the “house of representatives” adopted amendments to the Law on mass events at two readings on October 3. The news was spread by the press service of the “house of representatives”. The amendments need to be…
