Some believe that the Iranian position regarding the developments in Syria is very confusing - and perhaps Iran itself could be divided from the inside as it has been witnessing

The Muslim Brotherhood is more interested in expressing its solidarity with its secular co-revolutionaries than its Iranian co-religionists. This isn’t an Islamic revolution, they say — stating the obvious. It’s

Mubarak's government is seeking talks with protestors hoping to end the demonstrations that are crippling the economy and destabilizing the regime. Protestors, however, simply want Mubarak to step down, seeking

The US wants Egypt to go along with Israel and submit to US policy. However, the average Egyptian and his plight have been invisible to the US for decades as

The most flagrant sign of the decline of Arab nationalist regimes is their transformation into hereditary republics.

The Iranian Judiciary should immediately release six women arrested in January and early February 2010, apparently in connection with their peaceful activities on behalf of the Mourning Mothers, Human Rights

There is another issue that sanctions advocates never address: what if their proposal results in a new government, but the new government wants to pursue a bomb and continue Iran’s

By noon, thousands of Iranians – many of whom had taken to the streets since last summer’s controversial election – were in the main squares of Tehran.

We know now that both sides are planning demonstrations. The state is planning the usual rallies that they organize to mark the anniversary of the revolution, and the opposition is

Shari‘ati was critical of the ‘ulama, whom he saw as instruments of the state who needed to be sidelined in order to make way for a new religiously educated intelligentsia.[3]