As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Egypt for the first visit by an Iranian leader in more than thirty years, the Coptic Christian pope “sharply criticized” the ruling Muslim Brotherhood in an interview with The Associated Press, saying the new …

The Obama administration should be more assertive steps to in?uence the outcome of Arab Spring transitions, engage more broadly than government-to-government relations with a diverse set of actors, and employ leverage and incentives to affect the behavior of key actors, …

A hardline Islamist group normally aligned with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood today joined the opposition in calling for a national unity government as part of a plan to end the violence that has left more than 60 dead the past dead …

While radical Islamist forces are wreaking havoc in the north of Mali, “a republican form of Islamism is peacefully conquering the south,” says Hannah Armstrong, a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs in the Sahel.

“The High Council …

The disparate liberal and secular forces comprising Egypt’s National Salvation Front are so fractured that they are likely to cede “the last major decision-making body in the country to Islamists when the country votes in upcoming parliamentary elections,” …

The Obama administration has called on Egyptian leaders to “demonstrate, in both word and deed, their commitment to religious tolerance and to upholding all of Egypt’s international obligations.”President Mohamed Morsi’s statement addressing anti-Semitic comments he made in 2010 was …

Two years on from Tunisia’s Jasmine revolution that sparked the Arab Spring, has sectarianism overtaken democracy as the driving force of the region’s popular upsurge?

“Tribal, regional, and sectarian factionalism made political progress in Yemen agonizingly slow, as did tribal …

Jordan’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood is ramping up its campaign against next week’s parliamentary elections and against King Abdullah II’s proposed reforms.

“The Jan. 23 vote could set the stage for a possible showdown between Abdullah and the Islamic Action …

Turkey’s experience over the past decade under the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government – blending democracy and Islamism, close ties with Washington and a neo-Ottoman foreign policy – has been cited as a potential model for transitional states …

Transitional justice, security sector reforms, the role of international actors in advancing Arab democracy, and relations between Islamists and secularists will be among the issues to be addressed at a forthcoming conference on Democratic Transitions in the Arab World: …