- FRANCE 24

20/01/2012 - SYRIA

Army tanks pull back from rebel-held town Zabadani

The mountain town Zabadani, a rebel stronghold near Syria's border with Lebanon, was under siege for a month. Despite a week-long assault by government forces, the rebels drove back the army's tanks. The town is still starved of fuel and food, but as the Arab League's Syrian observer mission ended, residents of Zabadani enjoyed a fragile calm.

10/12/2011 - THE INTERVIEW

Tarak Ben Ammar, international movie producer and distributor

Tarak Ben Ammar worked as a producer on Jean-Jacques Annaud’s epic “Black Gold”, a movie that kicked off this year's Doha Tribeca Fim Festival. It traces the seeds of the oil war in the 1930s Gulf between American companies, Arabs and the nomadic Bedouins. “Black Gold” was filmed in Tunisia during the Jasmine Revolution.

08/12/2011 - SYRIA

Assad denies ordering killing of protesters

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has given his first interview to an American television station since the beginning of the popular uprising in his country back in March. In the interview with ABC News, Assad denied ordering a brutal crackdown on civilian protesters, instead blaming the violence on religious extremists.

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06/12/2011 - THE INTERVIEW

Stéphane Hessel, Author of 'Time for Outrage: Indignez-vous'

Stéphane Hessel, French resistance hero and author of the best-selling booklet "Time for Outrage: Indignez-vous" gives Melissa Bell his point of view on movements such as "Occupy Wall Street" or Spain’s Indignados. He tells us that the real question is how these movements can translate in something more long-term.

25/11/2011 - THE DEBATE

Syria crisis: world weighs options (part 2)

What will the endgame look like in Syria? The international community is now more or less agreed that the regime of Bashar al Assad is finished. What’s not certain is how long that regime can last. Will it be sanctions, a military intervention or an armed uprising that brings change?

25/11/2011 - THE DEBATE

Syria crisis: world weighs options

24/11/2011 - YEMEN

What next for Ali Abdullah Saleh?

Is it the end of the line for Ali Abdullah Saleh? Or could the Yemeni president still have a hand in his country's future? Despite signing over power to his deputy, and despite Yemeni protesters wanting to put him on trial, the man hailed as the great survivor of the Arab Spring may still be able pull strings in his country's political future.

24/11/2011 - MOROCCO

Discontent simmers ahead of historic elections

On Friday, Moroccans go the polls to elect a new lower house of parliament. The nationwide vote is the first of its kind since the King announced reforms paving the way to a constitutional monarchy. But do youngsters really believe elections will solve their economic woes?

24/11/2011 - EGYPT

Is revolution sinking Egypt's economy?

Much as been made of the human cost of the Egyptian revolution, but what of the economic cost? Speaking on Tuesday night, Egypt's interim leader Field Marshall Tantawi warned that the recent upsurge in violence is harming the country's economy, and urged protesters to return to work.

14/09/2011 - THE INTERVIEW

Jean-Pierre Filiu, specialist in contemporary Islam and author of 'The Arab Revolution'

Annette Young meets Jean-Pierre Filiu, specialist in contemporary Islam and author of "The Arab Revolution". He gives us his point of view on the Arab Spring which he calls a new "Nahda" - a cultural and political renaissance.