On 23 and 24 May, Egypt conducted its first round of presidential elections since Hosni Mubarak was deposed in February last year. A second round of voting will be held on 16 and 17 June to decide the outcome, since no candidate garnered enough votes in the first-past-the- post system. The two candidates to contest...

The stand-off on Iran’s nuclear program has reached a new crescendo this week after President Obama’s speech to the powerful Jewish lobbying group the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) at its policy conference on 4 March 2012.

In recent months there has been a notable escalation in the warnings emanating from Israel and the United States about the threat of Iran’s nuclear program, which will allegedly culminate in the construction of a nuclear weapon. Accompanying these warnings have been open threats that Israel is considering bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities, which Netanyahu’s government...