A more simplified, and easier to read time-lapse is offered on Slate. This one covers the period from December 17, 2010 to March 21, 2011.
In terms of country specific efforts, this one (in Arabic) on Syria caught my eye.
Excursions on the Middle East, politics, the Levant, Islam in politics, civil society, and courage in the face of unbridled, otherwise unchecked power.