Crystallizing some candid moments of palpable grief and intense emotion as floodgates open to tears and years of pent-up suppression by a state.

Horses and Camels cause a stir in the square as pro charges anti Mubarak: Supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday stormed into Tahrir Square, downtown Cairo and clashed with anti-government protesters, who demand the departure of the veteran leader. Scores of people were wounded. The TV footage showed hundreds of Mubarak supporters armed with knives and sticks confronting thousands of protestors. For their part, three movements involved in the protest against Mubarak said in a statement that "security agents dressed in civilian clothes and a number of thugs ...

Clerics, women, soldiers, children, students from all walks of life all come together to commemorate and celebrate the Islamic Revolution of Iran on the anniversary of its birth, and foundation of the Republic, forgetting for a moment the current crisis of the Islamic state.

Graffiti as a way of communicating to a seemingly stone deaf veteran leader who might see if he's utnil now refused to listen. The resounding message: Leave now, thief! Photos by: Sarah Carr

Outstayed his welcome: After 32 years in power, Ali Abdulla Saleh is no longer welcome by his own people. And their only way to communicate this is by peaceful protesting, united, for his immediate step-down- inspired by the disgraced departure of the Tunisian Ben-Ali upon his people's behest.

A precipitation of culminated anger is visited upon President Mubarak who the people are becoming increasingly intolerant toward in waves of anger. Suitably labelled, this day is held in honor of this expression of ultimate discontent with the status quo.

A visual preveiw of the week across the region: frrom protests, to car explosions, to sport, torrential rain, and religious pilgrimage. Quite a week from a dramatic month of January 2011.

Scenes from Cairo's throbbing epicentre as it cries itself hoarse for change. Momens of anguish and passion, and a people united in defiance and will.

Protests erupted in Sunni regions across Lebanon on Monday as outgoing premier Saad Hariri's party accused the Shiite Hezbollah of staging a coup by imposing its candidate to head a new government. Demonstrations broke out in various regions with a significant Sunni population where protesters burned tires and blocked major roads as they vented their anger, signalling future tensions and hostilities, at the likely appointment of billionaire Najib Mikati to replace Hariri, Lebanon's most popular Sunni leader.

The Palestine Papers are the largest news leak in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and publications of information hiden from public records. A cache of nearly 1,700 files, relased from January 23 by Al-Jazeera. Thousands of pages of diplomatic correspondence detailing the inner workings of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, documents—memos, e-mails, maps, minutes from private meetings, accounts of high level exchanges, strategy papers and even power point presentations - date from 1999 to 2010, will be released to January 26, 2011. The documents were obtained by Al-Jazeera and shared ...

At least 50 people died in a spate of explosions across Iraq on Thursday, including 45 in twin suicide car bombs that rocked the holy city of Karbala, the third major attack in as many days. The attacks mostly targeted pilgrims marking the Shiite Muslim mourning day of Arbaeen, and were the latest in a series of bombings that have shattered a relative calm in Iraq following the formation of a new government last month.