Prince works very hard for a woman to have a place in Saudi society.

The controversy over the face veil, which emerged following the fall of former Tunisian President Zein Abidine Ben Ali’s secular regime, has resurfaced again on campus with lectures coming to a halt following ongoing disputes on the issue. Lectures were stopped Tuesday at the Faculty of Literature, Arts, and Humanities at the University of Manouba, [...]

Seif, who was arrested on November 19 in southern Libya, is being held in a secret detention center in Zintan, 180 kilometers (110 miles) southwest of Tripoli. The ICC issued an arrest warrant for him in February 2011, when pro-Qaddafi forces sought to crush a popular uprising with brutal force. The new authorities stress that [...]

Tens of thousands of Kurds have been joining in weekly protests against Assad’s regime. But suspicion of the opposition has kept many of Syria’s estimated 2.5 million Kurds ─ more than 10 percent of the population ─ sitting on the fence amid the country’s turmoil. As a result, they effectively join Christians, Alawites and other [...]

Fighting broke out last month between Khartoum and Juba in the Heglig oil field — key to Sudan’s already struggling economy, as it supplied around half of its oil production — before an escalation of violence last Tuesday. The South has reportedly placed tanks and artillery around oil infrastructure in Heglig, which both sides say [...]