Official results in the historic Egyptian Presidential elections will not be revealed until Monday. But based on early returns and exit polls, it looks increasingly like a runoff will ensue, with the choice coming down to a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hosni Mubarak’s former Prime Minister. The Guardian has the best rundown of [...]

Egypt has opened the Rafah border crossing with Gaza. Younger men will need an entry visa to get into Egypt, but all others will be able to cross freely. The Egyptian foreign minister explicitly stated that the opening would “ease the suffering of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.” Hundreds of Palestinians massed at [...]

Here we have a country, just through a revolution, a transition in power, holding the sinners of the past accountable for their crimes, no matter how powerful or influential. They are not concerned with healing or looking forward instead of backward. They seek justice. I’m not talking about the United States, obviously. I’m talking about [...]

The Egyptian resolution has brought Hosni Mubarak to his knees. Literally, according to Al Arabiya. Former president Hosni Mubarak is to apologize to the nation and plead for amnesty, three months after he was overthrown by a popular uprising, the country’s military leader called on his people to help improve internal security and work for [...]

We don’t know how it will end yet, but for the moment, what we’re seeing in Egypt is remarkable, in terms of the spectacle of actual accountability for an Arab ruler: Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was complicit in shootings of anti-regime protesters during a period of upheaval in the country, a member of an [...]

Hosni Mubarak, hours after suffering a heart attack, has been ordered detained for 15 days to answer corruption charges and abuse of authority. Mubarak’s sons Gamal and Alaa have been detained as well. Prosecution of Mubarak and his family for crimes against the state has been a key demand of the protest movement in Egypt. [...]

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fired his entire cabinet yesterday, in response to protests that have roiled the country for a week. He spoke about additional reforms he planned to offer to the Syrian people today, in front of the Parliament, which is filled with Baath Party members loyal to him. The Baath Party is the [...]

Siun has you covered on some of the additional protests around the Arab world. The one that fascinates me, outside of the uprising just beginning in Libya, is Bahrain, which is wealthy enough that you would have thought the king could have bought off the demonstrators. But the death of a mourner participating in the [...]

What we saw happen in Egypt over the past few weeks and the final joyous hours was a citizen-led movement. It was a worker-led movement as well, with female beneficiaries of micro-finance and youth entrepreneurs and the working class taking to the streets to air their grievances about their personal conditions. It was not a [...]

Hosni Mubarak has resigned as the President of Egypt, after a day of mass protests throughout the country. Omar Suleiman, the Vice President, delivered the news in a short statement on state-run TV. Mubarak has flown to the resort town of Sharm el-Sheik. The crowd in Tahrir Square has erupted in jubilation. More in a [...]

You can see for yourselves the backlash to Hosni Mubarak’s defiant speech last night. It looks like all of Cairo is out in the streets, and not just Tahrir Square. Protesters have surrounded state-run TV and the Presidential palace, where the military has had to block the crowd from entering it. Two helicopters just arrived [...]