Today, early election results in Kuwait indicate that more than 30 of the 50 parliament seats have been secured by the opposition movement, which includes Islamists, liberals and independents, as well as youth groups who cite inspiration from the Arab ...

The first anniversary of Egypt’s revolution elicited commentary on Egypt’s transition, not all of which was optimistic. In a joint piece for the Washington Institute for Near East Peace, Samuel Tadros argues that "there is no true democratic transition in Egypt," ...

  The Muslim Brotherhood decided to support Egypt's interim cabinet remaining in power until after the presidential elections scheduled for June, according to a senior leader in the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party. In an interview with David Kirkpatrick ...

According to Magharebia, Morocco's National Human Rights Council (CNDH) has introduced "an action plan to integrate human rights principles into the kingdom's national policy." CNDH Secretary-General Mohamed Sebbar said, "The general goal of this plan, which includes several measures concerning various aspects ...

The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) said on Wednesday that they won a majority of seats in the run-off elections, with Salafis coming in second. One source told Reuters that the FJP secured 39 ...

In a speech to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Secretary of States Hillary Clinton called on Islamist parties that appeared to make significant inroads in Egypt's first round of elections last week to "embrace democratic norms ...

Al Jazeera English reported on Tuesday that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) will grant Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri extra powers through a constitutional amendment. Ganzouri stated that the SCAF "would issue a decree within hours to hand him ...

Abdul Moez Ibrahim, the head of the Egyptian supreme election committee, told a news conference on Friday that voter turnout for the first round of elections was 62 percent, and added "it is the highest voter turnout since ...

Abdelilah Benkirane, Morocco's new PM, has stated, "There will be no change to the kingdom's long-standing alliances with Western powers." The prime minister iterated that it is "unthinkable" to reconsider Morocco's historic alliances with the West, which are based on ...

As'ad AbuKhalil, writing for Alakhbar English, argues that the success of Islamist political parties is "the dominant story," but the coverage is not mentioning that these parties "have been organized for decades while some leftists and liberals ...

As Egyptians flocked to the polls on Tuesday, the Freedom and Justice Party, the Muslim Brotherhood's affiliate, claimed the lead in the first stage of parliamentary elections. State television reported that the peaceful polls had a high voter turnout, ...

Hundreds of Tunisian students clashed at a university over Islamists students' demands for segregated classes and the right for women to wear full-face veils. Witnesses stated that the demonstration at Manouba university near Tunis broke down into fighting ...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commended "the peaceful staging of legislative elections in Morocco," while calling for the incoming government to respond to the aspirations of all Moroccans. He lauded the conduct of the polls and encouraged the new government to ...

Tunisia's newly elected constituent assembly held their inaugural meeting on Tuesday, as election results were officially announced yesterday. Ennahda, the Islamist party, won majority of the seats, but announced today that they would form a coalition with ...

Thousands of people gathered throughout Morocco to urge a boycott of the forthcoming elections in demostrations called for by the February 20 movement. Many protesters claimed that the vote, scheduled for November 25, will not be ...