Arab Spring/Catalogs
Persona
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].
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
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.
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.
Abdurrahim El Keib
Interim Prime Minister of Libya from 31 October 2011. An academic specialising in electrical engineering(BBC News)
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>.
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
Leader of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in Egypt. Interim head of state since February 2011. Formerly Minister of Defence from 1991 and general commander for the armed forces from 1995.(BBC profile)(Carnegie Endowment profile).
Ahmed el Tayeb
Principal of Al Azhar University [8]
Initiator of the Al-Azhar Document[1].
References
- ↑ Joint UK, French and German statement on Syria, 18 August 2011
- ↑ Christophe Ayad: "We Are Simply Muslim": Libyan Rebel Chief Denies Al-Qaeda Ties, Time, 4 September 2011
- ↑ Martin Asser: The Muammar Gaddafi story, BBC news, 22 August 2011
- ↑ Nazanine Moshiri: Interview with Rachid Ghannouchi , al-Jazeera, 07 Feb 2011
- ↑ Libya's new leader calls for civil state. al-Jazeera, 13 September 2011
- ↑ Yemen: Text of Resolution 2014 (2011) as adopted by the Security Council, October 21, 2011
- ↑ Saleh rejects Qatar’s call for him to quit, Arab News, 25 October 2011
- ↑ 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]