The new Egyptian government, headed by Ahmad Shafiq, today swore allegiance to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

The opposition in Yemen has announced a demonstration of rage for February 3, to feature slogans against extending the term of Yemen President Ali Abdallah Saleh and against inheriting the regime.

The Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar warns that the security apparatus of an Arab country has transferred to the Lebanese authorities unconfirmed information about the possibility of attacks on Christian and Muslim religious centers in the country.

Source: Al-Akhbar, Lebanon, January 31, 2011

The Fatah and Hamas websites report on organization on Facebook for protest activity in the West Bank and Gaza.

Al-Qoqa is greeted by relatives in Gaza

Muatasam Al-Qoqa, Hamas's longest-term prisoner in Egypt, returned to Gaza after escaping from prison in the wake of the events in Egypt, during which demonstrators destroyed the prison walls.

The Syrian opposition website Nidaasyria, the website of the Damascus Declaration, reports that a Damascus demonstration in support of the Egyptian people and protesting the situation in Syria is now in its second day, and that the demonstrators intend to continue their demonstration until February 5, when a demonstration is planned to take place in front of the parliament in Damascus.

In response to expressions of support for protestors in Tunisia and Egypt by International Union of Muslim Scholars head Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi, and his demand for the removal of the presidents of these countries (see Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi Joins In Support for Anti-Regime Demonstrations in Arab Countries ), Dr. Muhammad Al-Sa'idi, head of the Islamic Research department at Umm Al-Qura University in Riyadh, said that Al-Qaradhawi is not authorized to express his view regarding popular activity and the removal of leaders,.

The London daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi reports that at an unofficial meeting of the Jordanian parliament, calls were heard for change in the government, in response to anti-government demonstrations in the Jordanian street.

Egyptian citizens are set tomorrow to hold a millions-strong demonstrations in city squares throughout the country, and to stage a general strike in many provinces.

In an editorial, the Lebanese daily Al-Mustaqbal accuses the Iranian regime of hypocrisy for praising anti-regime protests by the Egyptian and Tunisian peoples but executing its own citizens for the same thing.