Libya moving in right direction
 Osama Al Sharif - Arab News - There is good news coming from Libya: The country’s first free and open legislative election in nearly five decades has been an outstanding success. Yes last Saturday’s vote was marred by isolated attacks on polling stations, especially in the eastern region in and around Benghazi, but it could have been worse.
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Libyan elections: moderate Mahmoud Jibril poised for victory
 Return of former National Transitional Council chief would defy expectations of victory for the Muslim Brotherhood -
The Guardian - Luke Harding and Chris Stephen in Tripoli - Libya's former interim prime minister Mahmoud Jibril has won a landslide victory in the country's first democratic election, early figures show, defying expectations that the Muslim Brotherhood would sweep to power.
Saudis have more to offer Egypt than mere investment
 The National - Afshin Molavi - Newly elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will visit Saudi Arabia on Wednesday as his first visit as head of state. At the top of the agenda will likely be a patching up of relations between the two Arab heavyweights, strained by the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, as well as the promised multibillion dollar loans to help to shore up Egypt's deteriorating fiscal position.
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It’s US: Why Americans Should Support the Arab Spring
 Juan Cole - Mideastposts - Young Americans followed the events of 2011 in the Arab world with great interest and remarkable sympathy, such that a real difference now shows up in polls between younger and older Americans with regard to their views of the region.
The Sanctions Aren't Working
 Foreign Policy - BY ESKANDAR SADEGHI-BOROUJERDI, MUHAMMAD SAHIMI - In its failing drive to stop Iran’s nuclear program, the West is only empowering hardliners and pushing the Iranian people to the brink of poverty.
Only days prior to the official commencement of the European Union's embargo on Iranian oil, Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, penned an op-ed in Foreign Policy entitled "Battle Rial," calling again -- as he has repeatedly -- on the United States to step up what he admits is "economic warfare" against Iran and its more than 76 million people. Economic sanctions kill people -- as shown vividly in Iraq -- and may eventually lead to military attacks that will kill even more. This is not "defending democracy," but advocating war and destruction.
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