Politician's wives at a rally for the Lebanese Forces and other Christian parties on Wednesday night in East Beirut. Though Election Day isn't until Sunday, Lebanon has already gone on holiday to get ready. Many Lebanese are worried that the contest -- billed as one of the most important in this country's history -- could turn [...]

  Today's  election in Lebanon has been billed as one of the most important in the country's history, and it certainly feels that way. Polling stations have been packed this morning, and the country is on a military semi-lockdown. Nightclubs and bars closed early last night, and almost everything else has been shut since.    The electoral battle [...]

In a surprising boost for the Obama Administration Middle East agenda, Lebanon's American-backed ruling coalition maintained its majority in parliament after the country voted in record numbers yesterday.  Over half of the country's eligible voters turned out for a contest between a government that came to power in 2005 after a popular uprising against the Syrian [...]

 “I am the absolute winner of the election by a very large margin. It is our duty to defend people's votes. There is no turning back.”  Challenger Mir Hossein Moussavi spoke those words before the Iranian regime announced that he had been roundly defeated in Iran's presidential election by the controversial, hard-line incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A [...]

So far most Arab leaders have reacted to the Iranian electoral crisis in typical Middle Eastern fashion: they haven't. Amir Moussa, the head of the Arab League, took one for the team and made this non-statement statement: "We hope that the next term will witness progress on the relations between Iran and the Arab world [...]