Thousands of protesters rallied in Port Said on Tuesday against Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. Protesters also observed a general strike for the third day, and called on government employees to leave work. Shops remained closed, port workers and others continued ...

Addressing parliament at its opening session Sunday, Jordan's King Abdullah II called for reviewing the country's recently-amended electoral laws to promote "fair representation" and consensus within government. Jordan held its first parliamentary elections since the beginning ...

Today marks the second anniversary of former President Hosni Mubarak's resignation. Protesters, upset with the current government's lack of progress and using the anniversary to express their anger, blocked trains and traffic and gathered outside of government buildings. In ...

Thousands of protesters demonstrated around Egypt as part of the opposition-organized "Friday of Dignity." Some called for Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi to fulfill the revolution's goals, while others chanted for his fall. The protests come days after video circulated of ...

On Thursday, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) circulated a Dear Colleague letter seeking co-sponsors for H.R.416, a bill she introduced on January 25. The "Egypt Accountability and Democracy Promotion Act" would "condition security assistance and economic assistance to the Government of ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) charged on Sunday 94 nationals for conspiring to overthrow the government. The UAE's attorney general, Salem Saeed Kubaish, said, "Their unannounced aims were to seize power...they had plotted for that discreetly at secret meetings." He also

A day after Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi declared a state of emergency in three violence-stricken provinces, the country's largest opposition bloc declared that it would not participate in a national dialogue called on by Morsi to discuss a ...

President Mohamed Morsi declared a state of emergency in the cities of Port Said, Suez, and Ismailia in an effort to manage the deadly clashes that occurred there over the weekend. The protests began on Friday as demonstrators marked ...

Protests erupted around Egypt Friday as thousands of Egyptians took the streets, marking the second anniversary of the revolution.  Protesters gathered in Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and elsewhere in frustration over the government's slow progress on post-revolution reforms and a ...

Jordan held its first election under newly reformed election laws today. Last year's reform stipulated that 27 seats out of Parliament's 150 will be filled proportionately based on party lists, increased the quota of seats reserved for women, and ...

Egypt's Shura Council approved an law on Saturday that sets out the rules for parliamentary elections. Each electoral list must include a female candidate, but not necessarily on the first half of the list, as originally proposed. The council rejected ...

A group of US Senators including  John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Kirsten Gillibrand, (D-NY), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Christopher Coons, (D-DE) arrived in Egypt on Tuesday to meet with senior government officials, including President ...

Samuel Tadros published a piece for the Hudson Institute that recounts Egypt’s constitutional struggle and provides a glimpse of intra-Islamist dynamics. Ultimately, he finds that "while the fall of the Mubarak regime and its security apparatus has provided the Brotherhood with ...

Libya's largest parliamentary bloc, the liberal National Forces Alliance, began a boycott of the national assembly this week. The NFA walked out of meetings on Sunday and did not return for Monday's session. NFA spokesman Tawfiq Breik said, "we ...

United States Ambassador to Lebanon, Maura Connelly, met with Lebanese Speaker Nabih Berri to discuss the upcoming elections in Lebanon, which are currently scheduled for June 2013. Connelly said the U.S. supports "efforts to implement an ...

Egypt’s president Mohamed Morsi signed an executive order enacting Egypt’s new constitution on December 25. The referendum vote still remains under dispute however, as the National Council for Human Rights reported 1,073 complaints from civil society ...

On December 11, U.S. President Barack Obama announced the U.S. now officially recognizes the Syrian Opposition Coalition as “the legitimate representative of the Syrian people." Deputy Secretary of State William Burns restated the position while attending the “Friends of ...

Opposition activists crowded around the presidential palace while government supporters converged just a few miles away on December 11 for a day of protests before Saturday's referendum. In the early morning masked gunmen of fired birdshot on ...

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has partially annulled his decree which granted him sweeping power and authority. However, the constitutional referendum remains scheduled for December 15 and will proceed as planned.  Additionally, the announcement preserves articles from ...