By Younes Radi Morocco World News Rabat, June 15, 2013 The Arab world has been shaken by the latest videos of Amina, and afterwards her three comrades who exhibited bare chests in the Tunisian streets. The outrage has been quasi unanimous and the fatwas have been flowing from every mosque, every religious television program. Editorialists and bloggers have written extensively.. Live TV debaters and pundits ...

CAIRO, March 11, 2013 (AFP) Toppled president Hosni Mubarak, awaiting trial over his role in the deaths of protesters, believes Egyptians should rally around his Islamist successor and end violent protests, his lawyer told  AFP on Monday. President Mohamed Morsi, twice jailed by Mubarak before he himself was  overthrown on February 11, 2011, is the "elected president, people should  rally around him," the f ...

CAIRO, March 5, 2013 (AFP) Former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh said Tuesday his party will contest Egypt's next parliamentary elections, boycotted by the main opposition coalition. The Strong Egypt Party is to field candidates in the staggered legislative polls which start on April 22. Abul Fotouh told reporters in Cairo he believed parties had to "stand up to authority" in order to avoid ...

TUNIS, Feb 12, 2013 (AFP) Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki's secular party said it would stay in the ruling coalition, reversing a previous threat, but maintained its call for key Islamist ministers to resign. The widow of the leftist opposition leader whose assassination last week sparked the political crisis meanwhile called on the government to resign. The centre-left Congress for the Republic (CPR) ha ...

TUNIS, Feb 11, 2013 (AFP) Islamists who rose to power following the Arab Spring uprisings that toppled veteran leaders in Tunisia and Egypt are facing an uncertain future because they lack the political savvy to rule, analysts say. The murder last week of leftist Tunisian politician and outspoken government critic Chokri Belaid sparked unrest across the country, where despite the optimism of the revolutions ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 6, 2013 (AFP) US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spoke by phone with his Egyptian counterpart on Tuesday to hear an update on the tense political situation in Cairo and the "role" of the army amid recent street demonstrations, a Pentagon spokesman said. Defence minister and military chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, who has warned the state could collapse in the face of political upheaval, ...

By Loubna Flah Morocco World News Casablanca, January 31, 2013 The ascendency of political Islam as a result of the upsurge of religiosity in the Arab World is no longer a farfetched assumption, nor a visionary speculation, but a concrete reality. The anarchy ensued in Egypt after the fall of Mubarak and the arm wrestling between Marzouki and Ghanouchi’s disciples, in addition to the new interest nurtured b ...

By Abderrahim Chalfaouat Morocco World News Casablanca, January 30, 2013 During her Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused the Arab Spring, obliquely at least, of encouraging extremism and fueling armed attacks on the US interests and facilities in the region. Though the testimony concerne ...

Morocco World News with Maghreb Intelligence Rabat, January 23, 2013 While three years ago, the Kingdom of Morocco and France were the breeding ground for espionage operations conducted by agents of the Department of Intelligence and Security (DRS) outside the territory, the situation has radically changed. With impressive financial and logistical resources, but no human resources infinitely expandable, the ...

By Antoine Lambroschini TUNIS, Jan 14, 2013 (AFP) Tunisians marked the second anniversary on Monday of veteran dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's flight into exile in the first of the Arab Spring uprisings but insecurity and social tensions persist. A deadlock over a new constitution and the growing influence of radical Islamists are further challenges facing the nation since Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia. P ...

TUNIS, Dec 14, 2012 (AFP) Several Arab countries have undergone major upheavals since December 2010, with the fall of regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, an aborted revolt in Bahrain, a change of leadership in Yemen and acivil war in Syria that was still continuing as 2012 came to a close. Key developments:  TUNISIA The self-immolation in 2010 in the central town of Sidi Bouzid of Mohamed Bouazizi, a young ...

By Loubna Flah Morocco World News Casablanca, December 05, 2012 By virtue of its encoding power and in addition to its communicative function, language is a tool of control par excellence. The German philosopher Hegel suggests that the world can be obviously mayhem without the ability to attribute labels to different items and the possibility to encapsulate abstract concepts within the confines of lexis. Ye ...