Valentine's Day Love Sickness: Sick of Berlusconi’s Love Life A nation of Italian lovers shows little love for their Lothario Leader this Valentine’s Day The Italian prime minister Berlusconi is feeling unloved this Valentines: He claimed in an interview he was the target of an attempt to oust him by undemocratic means. And, it would seem, by women no less. Following the wave of protests in the Middle East and particularly North Africa, demonstrations, largely female led, were held on Sunday and Monday 14 February in 257 Italian and foreign ...

Arabs celebrated the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak on Friday 11 February and praised the resolve and pluckiness of the protesters, the Egyptians masses, and expressed the hope that their own demands for change now reverberate throughout the Middle East. They set off fireworks and gunshots in the skies of the Lebanese capital Beirut and the Gaza Strip and the city of Sana'aa, Yemen. While over in the rich Gulf Arab states celebrations were more hushed for this second dictator departure in the space of a month. And the rule ...

The family's fortune is rumoured to be in the range of 40 to 70 billion U.S. dollars. Britain's Guardian newspaper in concert wtih Middle East experts and state- led security investigations into allegations of corruption against the ruling National Demotratic Party, have popularized this figure after their report was published in the early days of the Egyptian Revolution. The report alleges that this wealth is distributed between accounts in British and Swiss banks , and real estate in Britain, the United States and Egypt . The public furor that was ...

An increasingly frustrated and tired people running out of stamina but maintaining a wicked sense of humor, the Egyptian protesting camp still wait out their Leader's much-called-for departure, injecting a wry humor into their appeals to him to get on with it and leave them to rest. Literally. The following signs are clips of Al Bawaba's favorites.

Crystallizing some candid moments of palpable grief and intense emotion as floodgates open to tears and years of pent-up suppression by a state.

Horses and Camels cause a stir in the square as pro charges anti Mubarak: Supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday stormed into Tahrir Square, downtown Cairo and clashed with anti-government protesters, who demand the departure of the veteran leader. Scores of people were wounded. The TV footage showed hundreds of Mubarak supporters armed with knives and sticks confronting thousands of protestors. For their part, three movements involved in the protest against Mubarak said in a statement that "security agents dressed in civilian clothes and a number of thugs ...

Clerics, women, soldiers, children, students from all walks of life all come together to commemorate and celebrate the Islamic Revolution of Iran on the anniversary of its birth, and foundation of the Republic, forgetting for a moment the current crisis of the Islamic state.

Graffiti as a way of communicating to a seemingly stone deaf veteran leader who might see if he's utnil now refused to listen. The resounding message: Leave now, thief! Photos by: Sarah Carr

Outstayed his welcome: After 32 years in power, Ali Abdulla Saleh is no longer welcome by his own people. And their only way to communicate this is by peaceful protesting, united, for his immediate step-down- inspired by the disgraced departure of the Tunisian Ben-Ali upon his people's behest.

A precipitation of culminated anger is visited upon President Mubarak who the people are becoming increasingly intolerant toward in waves of anger. Suitably labelled, this day is held in honor of this expression of ultimate discontent with the status quo.

A visual preveiw of the week across the region: frrom protests, to car explosions, to sport, torrential rain, and religious pilgrimage. Quite a week from a dramatic month of January 2011.