Arab Spring/Catalogs

Persona

al-Assad, Bashir President of Syria website.

Ben Ammar, Rachid Former head of the Tunisian army. Supporter of the revolution.

Belhaj, Abdul Hakim De facto commander of Libyan rebel army. Former commander of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (see interview )

Bouteflika, Abdelaziz 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)

Gadaffi, Muammar, President of Libya from 1969 until his capture and death in October 2011.

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).

Mubarak, Hosni Deposed president of Egypt.

Saleh, Ali Abdullah website President of the Republic of Yemen.

Sharaf, Essam Interim Prime Minister of Egypt (BBC profile)

Tantawi, Mohamed Hussein 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)

Libyan National Transitional Council

Mahmoud Jibril. Head of Government and international spokesman. Former head of Libyan National Economic Development Board. Previously a lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh Daily Telegraph profile.

Mustafa Abdel-Jalil. Chairman. Former Minister of Justice BBC profile.

Abdel Hafidh Ghoga . Vice Chairman. Benghazi lawyer.

Ali Tarhouni. Finance minister. Former economics lecturer at University of Washington.

Fathi Terbil. Council member.

Khalifa Hifter. Senior commander of rebel army.

Ali al-Essawi. Council member. Former ambassador.