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Topic: Arab Spring

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February 6, 2013
11:29 am

Chokri Belaid (photo credit: CC-BY, Rais67, Wikimedia commons)

Tunisian opposition leader shot dead

Unified Democratic Nationalist Party head Chokri Belaid was critical of Tunisia’s leadership; hundreds protesting in Tunis

February 5, 2013
6:00 pm

Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino, June 2012. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police to face unprecedented challenges, says chief

Commissioner warns that the legacy of the Arab Spring and the war in Syria require special preparations

By Stuart Winer

February 5, 2013
12:04 pm

Mohammed Morsi, right, and Mahmoud Ahmainejad at Cairo airport on Tuesday. (photo credit: AP/Egyptian presidency)

Ahmadinejad makes historic visit to Cairo

Trip is first journey to Egypt by any Iranian leader in decades; Iran president and Morsi hold 20-minute talk on Syria

February 4, 2013
11:36 pm

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (photo credit: Shutterstock)

Iran’s Ahmadinejad to visit Egypt this week

Trip is first jaunt to Cairo by any Iranian leader in decades; president says he will visit Jerusalem once it is liberated

By AP and Times of Israel staff

January 31, 2013
11:27 pm

Egyptian soccer fans of the Al-Ahly club celebrate a court verdict that returned 21 death penalties in last year's soccer violence which left 74 dead, inside the club premises in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, January 26, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

Egypt’s political parties denounce nationwide violence

Muslim Brotherhood, Salafis and liberals pledge to differentiate between political acts and sabotage

January 28, 2013
8:48 am

Islamist lawmakers in the Egyptian parliament, January 2012. (photo credit: AP/Asmaa Waguih/File)

US casting wary eye on Egypt’s Brotherhood, endangering aid

Officials in Washington have expressed shock over Islamist group’s crackdown on protesters and Morsi’s anti-Semitic comments

By Lara Jakes

January 25, 2013
8:38 pm

King Abdullah II of Jordan speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Friday.

Jordan: No time for Israel to play the waiting game

In Davos, King Abdullah warns that Obama’s second term is an ephemeral window of opportunity to implement the two-state solution

By Yifa Yaakov

January 25, 2013
1:18 am

Egyptian protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo (photo credit: Amr Nabil/AP)

In Davos, examining the Arab Spring’s mixed bag

Political liberation can be a double-edged sword, the Middle East learns

By Dan Perry

January 25, 2013
1:15 am

President Shimon Peres (R) meets with Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (photo credit: President Spokesman/GPO/Flash90)

Peres: Iran resolved to ‘rule over the Middle East’

President lauds Obama-led sanctions, says Arab League should assemble a military force to stop the bloodshed in Syria

By Times of Israel staff

January 23, 2013
6:31 pm

A Jordanian woman inks her finger after casting her ballot inside a polling station in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 (photo credit: Mohammad Hannon/AP)

Jordanians vote for parliament as monarchy cedes power

Elections seen as liberalization move enabling King Abdullah to avoid Arab Spring backlash

January 18, 2013
6:59 pm

Demonstrators wave the Jordanian flag during a protest by the Muslim Brotherhood movement and other opposition parties against the upcoming parliamentary elections in Amman, Jordan, Friday. (photo credit: AP)

Jordan’s Islamists, opposition rally against vote

Muslim Brotherhood members and youth activists call for boycott of parliament elections, saying freedom is ‘not a royal gift’

By Dale Gavlak

January 15, 2013
11:58 pm

Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich speaks with locals in Bat Hefer as her aide holds her umbrella. (photo credit: Shelly Yachimovich/Facebook)

Yachimovich hopes to lead country, or opposition

Labor head’s focus on Israeli society and the economy has drawn criticism that she is ignoring the Palestinian issue

By Aron Heller

January 3, 2013
2:05 pm

Yemeni soldiers stand guard at a street leading to the presidential palace in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. (Photo credit: AP/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen’s opposition: Saleh must leave the country

Jewish community upset over former dictator’s political exit; Egypt’s Morsi wrapped up in diplomatic mess with UAE

By Michael Bassin

January 1, 2013
7:02 pm

Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara host rabbis and scholars at their home for a Bible study session in October (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

Citing Biblical precedent, Netanyahu cautions against ‘rushed’ peace agreement

Warning Hamas could overthrow Palestinian Authority, PM rebuffs Peres’s call for making peace with Abbas

By Aaron Kalman

December 26, 2012
10:55 pm

The unilateral disengagement of the American titans of peace

Exhausted, resigned, disillusioned, two-staters are pivoting away from the Middle East

By Mark Donig

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