Evan Osnos

One morning last spring, two men from Jordan's Interior Ministry arrived unannounced at the headquarters of the Islamic Action Front, the country's most powerful opposition party. They said they were...

Ahmed Dahbour lives in political limbo. The 45-year-old shopkeeper was born in the Palestinian city of Ramallah but moved east to Amman 25 years ago to study. Until Palestinians' bitter...

If Ayman Nour can stay out of jail, he might be Egypt's strongest presidential challenger. A brash former journalist and private investor, the 40-year-old member of parliament has long advocated...

The riot police with truncheons and shields stood three deep, and yet the people still came. "This is a place where you are free to speak your mind. Nobody is...

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak gave an unprecedented six-hour television interview last week, reminiscing about a life of power and military derring-do. But this was no valedictory. The 76-year-old leader told...

The president known as Dr. Bashar likes to dine out. An eye doctor by training, Bashar Assad is often spotted with his wife and three kids in the homier restaurants...

Just before a winter midnight, the sound of hundreds of ardent young men stirred deep in a tangle of pitch-black alleys. It was no chorus of voices, but a sound...