Behind The News

In the short time he has been in power, Mohammad Morsi - Egypt's first democratically elected president - has covered a lot of ground and taken defiant strides towards a new Egypt, emerging from the rubble of revolution as a statesman.

After the indecency charge against an alleged police-rape victim, could the Islamist right in post-Arab spring Tunisia be coming to the fore? Following the election of the Ennahda group, the center-right Islamists, the disparate Salafi grouping is gaining prominence, and many are beginning to wonder if the Ennahda can keep its centrist line and whether there is a sea-change in Tunisian society.

Zainab al-Khawaja, the tweep fighting for her freedom of speech, is jailed in Bahrain after tearing up a picture of Bahrain's King.

The leftover from the revolution are still causing chaos in a country struggling for centralized power.

The last cultural center on Hamas land in Gaza is destroyed under murky circumstances.

When it comes to how he kills his people, Syria's Bashar Al Assad could be undertaking a stealthy and sinister strategy of 'slowly but surely' that runs counter to the vein of 1982's Hama which took out tens of thousands of civilians in one 'raze-to-the-ground' attack.

Amidst the violence and bloodshed of Syria, many of the country's children are unable to get back to school this September.

Some go back to avoid the 'prison-like' conditions of the camps while others are just desperate to see some fighting action. We speak to the refugees who are heading back over the border.

In a surprisingly unsurprising turn of events, the face that angered Muslims from Egypt through Libya and Yemen and everywhere, is that of the notorious Pastor Terry Jones. He is one man very involved, together with the mystery movie-maker, in the dramatic film affair that offended the Prophet Muhammad and in turn, the Muslim faithful.

Yemen is often touted as an Arab Spring success story that has deposed its dictator, and served women some glory, but the reality sees Yemenis are still suffering. To call it change is really to fall for cosmetic change to a regime versus a real departure. Post-revolution Yemen sees the same family in power and a revolution fait-non-accompli.

Another blow for the Jordanian government after a week of upsets now the Brotherhood are making noise about alleged election fraud. Yesterday, they released details of 70,000 forged ID cards.

Middle Eastern governments exploit their press to plug their own sectarian agenda on and off-screen.

We take a look back to see how the revolutionary pioneers have fared after the dust has settled and their new government has had time to make changes.

An economics professor finds himself at a secret trial after his research shows higher levels of poverty in the Kingdom than the Saudi government has acknowledged.

Activists call for the end to the pledge of allegiance ritual, calling it "degrading."