by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 7, 2011 | Features, Interviews
Tunis, Asharq Al-Awsat- Sheikh Rached Ghannouchi is the leader of the Islamic Ennahda Movement in Tunisia. During the era of former President Habib Bourguiba, he spent five years in prison, and was also sentenced to life imprisonment on one occasion in 1981, whereby...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 5, 2011 | Features, Interviews
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat- Arab League Secretary General Amr Musa has warned against exposing Egypt to greater dangers if confidence is lost in the reforms proposed about drafting a new Egyptian system and law. In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, Musa says: We need a...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 4, 2011 | Interviews, Middle East
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat – Some who are courageous to the point of fear, and others who are afraid and have set aside their courage, all fearing that the “adventure” in the country will become something else. There are two feelings that have come to...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 3, 2011 | Interviews, Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat – Two days after the Iranian parliament expressed its support for “the Egyptian nation’s uprising and movement against tyranny” the Egyptian Islamic Jihad group issued a statement supporting the explosive protests that have...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 3, 2011 | Interviews, Middle East
Jeddah, Asharq Al-Awsat – A Saudi Arabian Airlines official informed Asharq Al-Awsat that a total of 21,000 Saudi citizens had left Egypt, returning to Saudi Arabia on a total of 75 airplanes since the start of the unrest in Egypt. The official also revealed that the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 2, 2011 | Interviews, Middle East
Tunis, Asharq Al-Awsat –Tunisian municipal inspector, Faida Hamdi, age 45, who slapped Tunisian fruit-seller Mohamed Bouazizi, resulting in him setting fire to himself, thereby inflaming the Tunisian opposition, was not aware that her actions would change the...
