For the first time since post-colonial independence, a genuine popular revolution has succeeded in bringing down two dictatorships in the Arab world and in such a spectacular manner that it has caught most governments in the region by surprise...

I’m almost ashamed to have waited so long to put proverbial pen to paper to write about this experience. But, seeing as not many people want to talk about just what the Gaddafi regime is like up close, someone has to do it...

It is unfortunate that Moviment Graffiti see every protest as an exercise in self-promotion. They have become Malta’s ‘rent-a-protestor’, the sort you see outside every summit meeting or Downing Street, whether it’s ...

“We need action within hours not days... Gaddafi is killing his own people for wanting to be free”, an emotional Abdurraham Mohammed Shelagam, the Libyan Ambassador to the United Nations, told the National Council meeting in New York on Friday....

This is not the time to indulge in our normal partisan bickering, although even there much can be said and will undoubtedly be said, right or wrong....

Who could have imagined that the sole self-sacrifice of a vegetable vendor in an insignificant suburb in Tunisia could have unleashed North Africa’s people power that in political significance surpasses the events in western capitals of 1968?...

“What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of ...

We study and talk about revolutions that have changed the world. From tribal uprisings to bloody social tremors that led to revived ...

That’s ‘nationalist’ with a small ‘n’ of course. What is happening in Libya has served as a mirror to reflect back to us how we react in a time of crisis....

It comes as no surprise that the unrest in Libya and the rest of the Arab world has upset the investment world. It directly affected the price of oil that hit the unprecedented high of $119 per barrel....