Surf Arab States

Arab States Weekly Review May 26th – June 1st 2012

Syrian government forces killed more than 100 men in the town of Houla. A UN Security Council resolution denoucned the violence. Some said a tipping point was reached in the 15-month-long uprising.

Egypt’s first round of presidential election resulted in a victory for Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood and Ahmed Shafiq, a the former prime minister under Hosni Mubarak. The will face each other in a run-off in June.