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An informational catalog, or several catalogs, about Arab Spring.

Persona

Mustafa Abu Shagur

Prime Minister of Libya since September 2012[1]

Bashir al-Assad

President of Syria since 2000, following his father's 30-year presidency. (website)(BBC profile){Interview August 2011).
Authoritarian ruler. Accused of repression and "massive violation of human rights[1].

Abdul Hakim Belhaj

De facto commander of Libyan rebel army. (BBC profile)
Former commander of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. Denies Al-Qaeda connections [2].

Abdelilah Benkirane

Prime Minister of Morocco since November 2011 ([BBC profile]). Leader of the moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

President of Algeria since 1999. Autocratic head of a regime that has been accused by the UN Human Rights Committee of "massacres, torture, rape and disappearances".(CBS profile). Opponent of Islamic extremism.

Muammar Gaddafi

President of Libya[3] from 1969 until his capture and death in October 2011.

Rachid Ghannouchi

Islamic scholar, teacher, and activist, leader of the Tunisian Ennahda Party (Reuters profile).
An admirer of the political situation in Turkey[4]. Said to be widely considered as a moderate who believes that Islam and democracy are compatible (text of statement). Has no formal position in the current Tunisian government.

Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi

President of Yemen since February 2012 (China daily profile). Vice President for the previous 17 years.

Riad Hijab

Former Prime Minister of Syria (Al Jazeera profile), who defected to the revolution in August 2012.

Mahmoud Mekki

Vice-President of Egypt (Kuna prfile) since 12 August 2012. Senior Judge and campaigner for the independence of the judiciary.

Mohamed Morsi

President of Egypt since 24th June 2012. Former Chairman of the Moslem Brotherhood Freedom and Justice Party.

Mustapha Ben Jaafar

President of Tunisia’s Constituent Assembly since November 22 2011. Founder and Secretary-General of Tunisia's Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties (Ettakatol). Formerly a doctor and radiologist. (Tunisia Live profile).

Mustafa Abdel-Jalil

Chairman, Libyan National Transitional Council. Former Minister of Justice BBC profile.
Advocates a democratic state based on Islamic law [5].

Hamadi Jebali

Prime Minister of Tunisia since November 2011. Former Secretary General of the moderate Islamist party Ennahda(Tunisia Live profile).

Mahmoud Jibril

Former Prime Minister of the Libyan National Transitional Council and international spokesman. Previously head of Libyan National Economic Development Board. Previously a lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh Daily Telegraph profile. Resigned on 24th October 2011.

Saad al-Katatni

Speaker of the Egyptian parliament and Secretary-General of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party. Carnegie profile

Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa

King of Bahrain since 1999 (profile)

Abdurrahim el-Keeb

Interim Prime Minister of Libya from 31 October 2011. An academic specialising in electrical engineering(BBC News)

Moncef Marzouki

Tunisian human rights activist, politician and physician. Leader of the Congress for the Republic political party.

Mohammed VI

King of Morrocco since 1999. There have been some economic and social liberalisation measures during his reign, but he has retained sweeping powers (BBC country profile).

Hosni Mubarak

Deposed president of Egypt. On trial for corruption and for ordering the killing of protestors<ref.Mubarak trial: Egypt's ex-president denies all charges, BBC News, 3 August 2011</ref>.

Hisham Qandil

Prime Minister of Egypt since 2 August 2012. Former water resources minister(Ahram.online profile).

Ali Abdullah Saleh

President of the Republic of Yemen (website)(BBC profile).
He has been urged to resign, by the United Nations Security Council[6] as per the Gulf Cooperation initiative, but he has rejected both the UNSC resolution and the Gulf Cooperation initiative [7].

Essam Sharaf

Interim Prime Minister of Egypt. US-educated civil engineer and former Minister of Transport (BBC profile)

Mohamed Hussein Tantawi

Egypt's Minister of Defence since 2 August 2012. Leader of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. Formerly interim head of state since February 2011. Previously Minister of Defence from 1991 and general commander for the armed forces from 1995.(BBC profile)(Carnegie Endowment profile).

Ahmed Shafiq

Former Prime Minister of Egypt (Jan-March 2011), the army's unsuccessful candidate in the 2012 presidential election.

Ahmed el Tayeb

Principal of Al Azhar University [8]
Initiator of the Al-Azhar Document[2].

References

  1. ↑ Joint UK, French and German statement on Syria, 18 August 2011
  2. ↑ Christophe Ayad: "We Are Simply Muslim": Libyan Rebel Chief Denies Al-Qaeda Ties, Time, 4 September 2011
  3. ↑ Martin Asser: The Muammar Gaddafi story, BBC news, 22 August 2011
  4. ↑ Nazanine Moshiri: Interview with Rachid Ghannouchi , al-Jazeera, 07 Feb 2011
  5. ↑ Libya's new leader calls for civil state. al-Jazeera, 13 September 2011
  6. ↑ Yemen: Text of Resolution 2014 (2011) as adopted by the Security Council, October 21, 2011
  7. ↑ Saleh rejects Qatar’s call for him to quit, Arab News, 25 October 2011
  8. ↑ http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/africa/mubarak-appoints-a-new-chief-of-al-azhar Abou el Magd, Nadia: Mubarak appoints a new chief of Al Azhar, The National March 21, 2010]
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