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 [...]

The possible last-minute cancellation may cast new light on divisions within the Palestinian political establishment, which has struggled to craft a winning strategy to achieve statehood. The letter could serve as a prelude to a renewed unilateral Palestinian move for statehood recognition in the United Nations, an effort suspended last autumn amid stiff opposition from [...]