After just over a year in power, Morocco’s Islamist-led government is struggling to fulfill the high hopes brought on by its election in 2011 on promises to fight corruption, provide for the needy and reform the country. Working within a coalition of often reluctant allies, the moderate Islamists of the Justice and Development Party
Clashes in the Egyptian capital erupted on Friday between supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and protestors that stand against the leading party. Four buses belonging to the brotherhood were torched and ransacked in Cairo, Al Arabiya's correspondant reported. The violence in they city has injured at least 40 people up till now, police have
Syria’s president has vowed to rid the country of Muslim extremists whom he blamed for a suicide bombing that killed over 40 people, including a top Sunni preacher. "I present my condolences to the Syrian people for the martyrdom of Sheikh Mohamed Saeed al-Bouti, a great figure in Syria and the Islamic world," he
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said on Thursday that it would defend its headquarters against protests if necessary, raising the possibility of a confrontation at a demonstration planned in Cairo on Friday. Anti-Brotherhood protesters clashed with riot police wielding tear gas outside the building earlier this week, the latest burst of street unrest in a country
Many Egyptians are not seen in favor of the intended International Monetary Fund (IMF) rescue loan of 4.8 billion U.S. dollars, as the government may raise prices and impose extra taxes. According to local media reports on Wednesday, the country is expected to receive the first part of the loan before this July. IMF
A famed Syrian actress was attacked Wednesday for explicitly supporting President Bashar al-Assad and reciting poetry criticizing Islamists in the region. She made her daring announcement while attending a cultural event at Cairo’s Opera House, local media reported. Known as Raghda in the Arab World, the 55-year-old actress angered some attendees at the Arab
As U.S. President Barack H. Obama arrived in Ramallah for talks with Palestinian Authority officials, a large anti-Obama demonstration was taking place a few blocks away from the Muqata, the Palestinian Authority's headquarters in Ramallah. Israel Television reporter Yoram Cohen said that the demonstrators shouts could be heard at the site where PA chief
PA Arabs are not happy that U.S. President Barack H. Obama is paying Ramallah a visit Thursday. In fact, said a PA official, “we don't want Obama here.” Speaking to Yisrael Hayom, a PA official who is very close to PA chief Mahmoud Abbas, said that “unfortunately we do not have much hope for
“Peace must come to the Holy Land,” proclaimed US President Barack Obama on Wednesday after stepping down on to the tarmac at Ben Gurion Int’l Airport. “We will never lose sight of an Israel at peace with its neighbors,” Obama insisted, making clear his determination to again try to revive the moribund peace process
A slightly tongue-in-cheek list of things that the US president should and should not do while in Israel - and one he should have done by now i.e. free Jonathan Pollard. Our PR firm often briefs clients prior to major communications endeavors, and with President Obama on his much-awaited Israel trip which is sure
