After Syria , the Olympics , Ramadan , Syria, Ramadan , and still more Syria and Olympics it's about time we checked back in with Egypt and the nascent democracy's new main man Mohammed Morsi. A catch-up quite overdue with the country whose revolution kept us on our toes and then to everyone's astonishment delivered cleanly and safely a new fresh-bearded President in place of the old ousted rotten dictator. Included in the Morsi-review is the first reading of the Morsimeter and a general snap-shot of new-born democratic Egypt at ...

After the weekend of the Opening Ceremony and flag parades starring Arab entries to the London Games , we look at Arab achievements in Olympic-terms to date. We take stock of medals gained, and success delivered by Arab athletics and tot up the Arab world's collective and individual medal count historically. From the Olympic's Arab inception in Stockholm 1912 , 100 years ago, until Beijing 2008, we borrow from a CNN report in Arabic to bring you the figures and facts. Of course in the Arab world, where states and ...

We take a look at some of the Arab world's Olympians competing at London 2012 this week, in our hand-picked panel of sporting giants from Tunisia, through Libya , Egypt, Syria and more. Whether they're hot Arab Spring favorites for giving their countries a feel-good reward after a tough couple of years, or former champions back to boost the Arab medal count, we celebrate the Middle East's sportsmen and women who are going for broke durnig the coming fortnight. Cooked-up in a restive region, we have a mean brew of ...

Introducing our very own TV-listing for Ramadan 2012 in a sliding gallery of TV blurbs. Find out what's playing this season from the old sagas, to the new entries and the still up-for-debate controversial numbers. TV shows from Egypt, Syria and the Gulf address a cornucopia of issues ranging from family through society, history politics and justice as well as theology for the holy month . What will you be watching this Ramadan ? Leave your comments on the Ramadan TV line-up of 2012 in the space below

It started with just a few lone pilots in Jordan but last night's bombing in the capital, Damascus, looked like the nail in the coffin for the Assad regime. As one after another of his closest men are either killed or defect, who does Assad have left ? So far the president has responded by quickly announcing replacements for the fallen and beginning indiscriminate shelling in the capital. If it looks like desperation, it probably is. Now FSA activists are warning Assad that a fate worse than Gadaffi is in ...

If you're wondering how you're going to stay cool through a sizzling peak summer Middle East Ramadan , set to start this week, avert your eyes from the sun, and cast them over this guide to chilling out in Ramadan 2012 and keeping it a nice-ice Ramadan! The media and weather experts have billed this Ramadan the hottest in 33 years, which has got people sweating with apprehension at the thought of fasting lengthy summer days in the Arab world. But that won't put off the region's steadfast Muslims from ...

Although Muslims habitually stay at home for Ramadan, living the holy month abroad is becoming more common in an increasingly mobile age. This year, Lebanon's minister for tourism even made a public appeal for Ramadan visitors to consider the arguably less obvious choice, while traditional tourism hot-spot for Ramadan, Saudi Arabia, has started up a tourist campaign to open up the Holy Kingdom to non-religious visitors too. For anyone planning on trying Ramadan abroad, whether for the experience of a travelling Ramadan, or out of necessity in times of political ...

Just days after the first Syria Leaks are trickling through, since the 5th of July, 2012, Al Bawaba brings you up to speed with the most salient files so far. Wikileaks' latest dispatch of emails, dated from August 2006 til March 2012, have been allocated the unique label "Syrian Files" by the notorious champions of electronic transparency. The trusty Wikileaks website promises to release their treasure trove of emails over the next couple of months, which include more than 2 million sent emails, belonging to Syrian officials from private and ...

More than 18 months since the winds of change started to blow, where has the Arab Spring taken the region? Al Bawaba brings you "Top of the Pops"- popular revolts not popular music: our Arab Spring Redux charts. See the pictures above to find out what's been shaken in the Middle East and North Africa: who's been dumped, who's been winning elections, who are the movers and the shakers, and who looks set to be the hottest act of 2013. While geriatrics cast their ballots in North Africa , little ...

Whether it's for the "pre-Ramadan Rush" as some have taken to calling it, or for the summer high season, Arabs love to flock to the European capitals and shores for shopping, spending and even drinking-splurges or gambling-sprees. All manner of sin and excess banned and shunned from their home-lives become fair-game while abroad. It's summertime, and distinctly for Muslim world Arabs, that time of the year just before the Ramadan stay-at-home family time kicks in. Which signals just one thing for these restive Arabs who are itching to squeeze some ...

The biggest footballing event of the summer 2012 has just ended and before the dust settles, we take a look at how it all went down - from start to finish, in a dramatic one-sided final that saw Spain clinching the title and most deservedly at that. Spain's journey to the top Spain secured the championship of Euro 2012 after a rather shaky start to the tournament in their group stage matches. They weren't all that convincing in their opening match in which they drew against the Italians 1-1 ...