by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 3, 2011 | Interviews, Middle East
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat- High-level official Libyan sources have denied knowledge of secret negotiations between representatives of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime and Western governments while asserting that Gaddafi was still in the Bab al-Aziziyah barracks in...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 2, 2011 | Interviews, Middle East
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat – The Ain al-Helwa Palestinian refugee camp is in the spotlight once more, after more than 10 months of relative calm following a shake-up of the Fatah security operation in the camp, and the establishment of a monitoring committee made of...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 1, 2011 | Features, Interviews
On Monday, 31 January [2011], I entered the Egyptian Museum for the first time since the events of Friday, 28 January. I had been given special approval by the Egyptian armed forces to enter the museum, along with a group of foreign journalists and television crews,...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 1, 2011 | Interviews, Middle East
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat – Official Libyan sources informed Asharq Al-Awsat that Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi imposed a travel ban on senior Libyan governmental figures since the beginning of the popular uprising against him, fearing their defection. This...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 31, 2011 | Interviews, Middle East
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat – Colonel Gaddafi’s close aides are racing against time to find a political solution to the current crisis in Libya. Asharq Al-Awsat also learnt that one of Saif al-Islam’s senior aides, Mohamed Ismail, is currently in the middle of...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 30, 2011 | Features, Interviews
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat – Egyptian opposition figure and founder of the El Ghad party, Ayman Nour, spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat about his hopes for the future in Egypt. Nour ran against then president Hosni Mubarak in the 2005 presidential elections, winning 7 percent of...