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Long gone are the days when a celeb’s success was based on actual work. While movies and albums might help Arab celebs make a name for themselves, there’s no need for them to worry their pretty little heads about a repeat performance when there are more important things to be focusing on...like themselves!

With the region in chaos, the Kurds have found a way to turn the situation to their advantage and get closer than ever before to their dreams of a united Kurdistan.

Getting their claws out on Twitter, Facebook and the press, these Arab celebs are not to be messed. Let their cat-fights speak for themselves!

The enormity of the human tragedy that has engulfed Syria since March 2011 cannot be underestimated. Tens of thousands have been killed, perhaps a million imprisoned and abused. Peace remains elusive, even as new proposals are put forth from all sides.

At the beginning of their careers, desperate Arab celebrities often turn up the heat with sex and controversy. But as soon as they've made it big they drop their scandalous ways faster than you can say "fame whore". Here are some of our favorite stars who went X-rated to go A-list.

Seven years after he first slipped into a coma, former Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has begun to show evidence of brain activity. What would Sharon be greeted by if he was to wake up in the winter of 2013?

With the Arab Spring well behind the region, we take a look at the countries at the wrong end of the democracy process.

And the protestors revolted on. From breadlines to Brotherhood and back, how far has Egypt really come since revolution? Morsi Mubarak and two years on, discontent simmers in post-revolution Egypt. On the second anniversary of Jan 25, the band plays on and Egypt still feels the urgent need for change.

Will Binyamin Netanyahu stay or will he go? This Israeli election of 2013 promises to tell us if Israelis will see a new face steering their Zionist ship through the stormy waters or whether the same Captain Bibi will stick to his guns and bullets at the helm of the Jewish state. Israeli political drama and a behind the scenes low down of the issues attending the elections- from US relations to the Arab-Israeli vote.

Despite ordinary Jordanian digging deep for the basic necessities, the country's politicians are still going strong with palace-like tents and thousands of plates of mansaf on offer for anyone who will vote for them.