Syrian writer and researcher Ali Shihabi explains the disconnect between the mindset of the the Syrian regime and the demands of protesters on the ground which would lead to the inevitable fall of the regime in the writer's opinion. This article was translated by Wessam Muhammed.

The Syrian regime did...

As part of the Meedan Translation Series on the Arab Spring, Fayez Sara, a Syrian writer and opposition member, argues that the Arab revolutions will only be fully realized when states reform their armies. This article was translated by Anas Qtiesh.

The events of the Arab uprisings brought into the...

Paris-based Syrian blogger Samer Saeed reflects on the suffering of the people of Hama and explains why the Syrian army units deployed there are so willing to use force. This article was translated by Anas Qtiesh.

It might be sheer coincidence that made the Syrian Army Day an occasion for...

As part of the Meedan translation series on the Arab Spring, a journalist from Homs recounts his experience of living through an uprising facing a violent crackdown.  The author's name is not published here to protect his safety. This article was translated by Anas Qtiesh.

Ali al-Hajj - DAMASCUS: There are places in Damascus where you can find the banners and slogans condemning the brutal violence of the Syrian security forces against peaceful protesters. In those cellars, built during the Ottoman Turkish rule before Syria gained her independence, the young people of the Syrian revolution...

MANAMA, Mohammad E. AlMaskati -- Protests and local political tension are not new to Bahrain. Most of those at Pearl roundabout, Lulu, yesterday were in their early teens during the unrest of the 1990s, when leftists, liberals and Islamists last rose up together in support of democratic reform. Many of...

TRIPOLI, Yousef Mahmoud: The recent events in Libya come at a time as a wave of huge change is sweeping the region. After the Tunisian uprising succeeded in overthrowing president Ben Ali, the Libyan regime was taken by surprise and the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, was in a state of...

Award wining multimedia storyteller and Meedan producer Simba Russeau writes from Cairo

Several days after the historic resignation of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, an important question still remains. Has the military been part of the political games and failed to really hear the array of voices that have occupied...

Meedan gives you a look at Arabic commentary on the dramatic departure of former Egyptian president Hosny Mubarak through the lens of Twitter, the medium of choice of many of the protests' organizers and supporters. Here are some of our favorite tweets, translated:

Meedan team member Ahmed Ragab took the time to write this piece below and then read it aloud over a phone line. We recorded it and sent off a tweet asking for volunteer translators. Dina elHusseiny emailed me a few seconds later and within three hours had generated a wonderful...

"Like a genie, the people of Egypt have escaped from the bottle, and it is impossible to stuff her back in."

So writes Arab commentator Arib Al-Rantawi in Jordan's government newspaper, Addustour, one day before the country's autocratic ruler, King Abdullah, sacked his government in an attempt to stave off...

As Egyptians head to the ballot boxes today to vote in parliamentary elections, and amid reports of a crackdown against leading opposition group the Muslim Brotherhood, Kate Goodin looks at the campaign trail debate in the Arab press, and particularly in Egypt, on the meaning of the controversial...

Former US president George Bush's recently published memoirs have provoked a range of responses in the English-speaking world, from hundreds of fans waiting in line at a Dallas book signing to calls by Amnesty International for a criminal investigation.

In the Arabic-speaking world, which has been on the receiving...

Following Foreign Policy's whistle-stop tour of Pakistani, French, Spanish, German, and Chinese media coverage of the Tea Party, ahead of crucial midterm elections taking place today and tomorrow, Kate Goodin presents a brief insight to how the Tea Party movement is being covered in the Arab media.

The Kuwait International Book Fair came to a close this week amidst widespread controversy due to the banning of what could be up to 200 books, writes Kate Goodin. A group of Kuwaiti intellectuals staged a sit-in outside the book fair, Saudi author and winner of the 2010...

With fragile peace talks still on hold, Arab commentators respond to the latest controversy in Israel, a proposed "loyalty oath," which would require non-Jewish citizenship applicants to declare loyalty to Israel "as a Jewish and democratic state."

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