In the aftermath of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and anti-American protests in Cairo, Egypt, VOA correspondent Elizabeth Arrott and videographer Japhet Weeks spoke with Said Sadek, Professor of Political Sociology at American University in Cairo. They asked him to comment about the reported role in the violence of an More »
A 14-minute movie trailer fueled angry mobs of demonstrators to attack the U.S. embassy in Cairo and, as some believe, may have triggered the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, Tuesday night. The movie is said to have been More »
- Top US officials condemn the killing of four Americans in Libya - An American Islamic organization responds to the violence - Is a Syrian no-fly zone feasible? - Spy arrests raise Turkish-Iran tensions - US and Israeli leaders will not be meeting in New York – More »
The world woke up Wednesday morning, September 12, to news that the US ambassador to Libya and three embassy staff were killed in an attack on the US Consulate in the eastern city Benghazi late Tuesday. Reaction was swift and varied... More »
Ann Marlowe is a journalist who covered the revolution in Libya, continued to spend time there, and just concluded a three-week trip to the country yesterday, the day of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi in which Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed. She published an almost prescient op-ed More »
U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three embassy staff have been killed after a mob angered over an amateur American-made short film that mocks Islam’s Prophet Muhammad stormed the U.S. consulate in the eastern city Benghazi late Tuesday. Responding to the violence, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR, has condemned the killing of the More »
-A court in Bahrain has sentenced Nabeel Rajab, a prominent rights activist, to three years in prison for his role in unauthorized protests. We talk to Brian Dooley, director of the Human Rights Defenders Program at Human Rights First, about the case. -Fears are growing that Lebanon could be drawn further into Syria’s conflict, as More »
In a groundbreaking decision, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has forced the retirement of Defense Chief Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the powerful head of the military council, in an apparent push to reassert authority over a military stacked with allies of former President Hosni Mubarak. Mr. Morsi also forced the resignation of Chief of Staff Sami More »
ليبيا بين التحديات والآمال حوار مع سفير مصر السابق في ليبيا ومع مدير منتدي المواطنة في ليبيا هل تصبح ليبيا تجربة فريدة في نجاح التحول نحو الديمقراطية؟ تحديات الأمن والميليشيات المسلحة هل سيمكن تخطيها؟ كيف سيؤثر الإسلام السياسي في توجيه التحول الديمقراطي في ليبيا؟ VOA’s Mohamed Elshinnawi speaks with the former Egyptian ambassador to Libya and the director of More »
- Fred Abrahams, special adviser to Human Rights Watch in New York, discusses Libya’s National Transitional Council’s peaceful handover of power to the country’s first elected assembly. - Syrian activists say clashes between government forces and rebels are still raging in Aleppo, as the military presses on with an assault on opposition-held areas of the More »
Libya is experimenting with democracy after holding its first elections since the overthrow of dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Despite the success of the recent vote, though, the country has many hurdles to overcome. Three Libya experts recently discussed the country’s political transition at a forum hosted by The Middle East Institute and the School of Advanced More »
In this newsmaker interview, Marc Lynch, author of The Arab Uprising, The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East, discusses his recently published book and the future of the new Middle East with host Carol Castiel and VOA Middle East senior reporter Cecily Hilleary. Listen and find out why Lynch identifies Turkey, Qatar, Egypt More »
As the Arab Spring swept through the Middle East and North Africa, a number of countries, both those affected by it and those which were only onlookers of the changes it brought, are seeking a way forward. Aside from their own uncertain futures and a seemingly open-ended conflict in Syria, relations with Israel loom More »
- The senior United Nations official in Libya says the July 7th Libyan election was an extraordinary accomplishment, but the country’s new government faces major challenges. - Marc Lynch, a professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University explains his opposition to the international community taking military action in Syria. - More than More »
In clear contrast to electoral tendencies in other “Arab Spring” countries, relatively liberal parties in Libya seem to have decisively crushed their Islamist rivals in last Saturday’s parliamentary poll. The development came as a surprise to many. Here are some reasons which might explain the apparent anti-Islamic trend in a country which last year More »
- Correspondent Al Pessin has returned to Tripoli to observe the election and shares with us, in one word, what the new government faces. He says the public is “exhilarated” by the nation’s first multi-party election in 60 years. - United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan says he and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have agreed More »
TRIPOLI, Libya — Libyans filled with optimism went to the polls Saturday for their nation’s first multi-party elections in 60 years. It was an emotional moment for people who have lived through 42 years of dictatorship and a bloody revolution. Many young men were fighting the forces of Moammar Gaddhafi just nine months ago. Today, More »
الانتخابات الليبية: الشعب الليبي ينتخب ممثليه لأول مرة خلال نصف قرن حوار صريح مع الدكتور عماد السائح نائب رئيس المفوضية الوطنية العليا للانتخابات في ليبيا: هل ستؤدي الانتخابات الليبية إلى تحقيق الوحدة أم إلى مزيد من النزاعات فيما بين أبناء الشعب الليبي؟ ما هي مهمة البرلمان الليبي الجديد؟ إلى أي حد يعتبر الليبيون صياغة دستور جديد للبلاد هاما More »
They won this year’s Grammy for Best World Music album. The Touareg group Tinariwen is currently on a world tour to promote its Tassili CD. VOA’s David Byrd caught up with the group when they visited Washington, D.C., and reports that the current turmoil in the group’s home country of Mali is never far More »
- We ask defense analyst Dan Goure, Vice President with the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Va., if it would be more difficult to have an international military intervention in Syria at this time. - A closer look at Russia as a key player in the Syrian crisis. - Are there “Arab Spring” lessons applicable to the More »
