As Egypt's government continues to pursue a $4.8 billion loan from the IMF, Egyptian people's concerns about the elimination of subsidies on bread and fuel continue to rise. Professor Nezar Al Sayyad, Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies...

As the conflict in Syria continues to escalate, it is increasingly spilling over into neighboring countries. Lebanese villagers near the border with Syria have formed armed militia groups to patrol the outskirts of their areas. They claim their vi...

Bassem Youssef, the Egyptian political satirist and host of popular television show al-Bernameg (modeled on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show), is best known for poking fun at Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. But the joke wa...

Egyptians are protesting the government's plans to implement a new subsidy system that will subsidize bread rather than the flour used to make it. Many bakers worry they won't be paid enough, while Egypt's poor fear the subsidized bread, which for...

Many groups of the Free Syrian Army include foreign fighters who came to Syria under the banner of Jihad. This report from BBC Arabic showed video recordings of confrontations and exchanged insults and ridicule between members of Abu al-Fadl al-Ab...

Syrian refugees at the Suleiman Shah relief camp in the city of Akcakale near the Turkish border, clashed with military police after a protest against poor living conditions in the camp descended into violence. Police fired tear gas and water cann...

Many Egyptians are uniting against President Mohamed Morsi's economic policies as his government pursues a $4.8 billion loan from the IMF. In order to qualify for the loan, the IMF has imposed strict rules, including an end to subsidies for many e...

After 30 years of conflict, the imprisoned head of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdallah Ocalan, yesterday issued a statement calling for a ceasefire with Turkey and the withdrawal of PKK fighters from Turkey to northern Iraq. Nicole Watts,...

Ten years after the US invasion of Iraq, Al Jazeera reports on conditions in two adjacent neighborhoods in Baghdad. While residents in one believe conditions are better now than they were under the US occupation, those living in the other say the ...

As President Obama prepares for his trip to Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan, Mosaic interviews Columbia University's Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies. The discussion focused on US-Israel relations and the fundamental cha...