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    Sibling Rivalry
    In an interview last month, Egyptian politician Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh displayed the poise and good humor of a man who had the foresight to step off a bus before it rolled into a ditch. The f...

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  • Awakening Memories

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    It is no secret that Israeli society consists of a number of diverse ethnic communities. Culturally, artist Dor Guez—who was born in Jerusalem to Palestinian Christian and Tunisian Jewish pare...

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  • Ten Years, and Ten Lessons, Later

    Ten Years, and Ten Lessons, Later
    STANFORD, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ten years ago yesterday, the Saudi capital, Riyadh, was rocked by three near-simultaneous suicide bombings at housing compounds for expatriates. Over 30 people di...

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  • Remembering Cairo

    Remembering Cairo
    There is a story from the Mubarak era about a Cairo shopkeeper who had a portrait of each of Gamal Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak decorating the wall of his shop. A passing tourist asked...

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Political Editor: The Majalla
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on : Wednesday, 22 May, 2013

Iraqi political tensions worsen amidst further violence

BAGHDAD, Asharq Al-Awsat—More than half of all Iraqi MPs boycotted an emergency parliamentary session held yesterday to discuss the deteriorating security situation in the country, further escalating the entrenched political crisis in Baghdad. Just 140 out of a total of 325 Iraqi parliamentarians attended the special parliamentary session called for by Speaker Osama Al-Nujaifi at the behest of the Ahrar parliamentary bloc, affiliated to the Sadrist Movement. The State of Law coalition blo...

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Nasser Arrabyee
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on : Wednesday, 22 May, 2013

Al-Qaeda’s air war in Yemen

Yemen’s president Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi and the commander of the country’s Air Force, Brigadier Rashid Al-Janad, have responded to recent crashes of military aircraft in Yemen by saying that "bad people" were behind the incidents, as well as the assassination of Yemeni pilots. Three military airplanes crashed in and around Sana’a over the last few months, the last of which came down in the south of the city last week, killing the pilot. According to reliable sources at a nearby air f...

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David Andrew Weinberg
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on : Wednesday, 22 May, 2013

Going AWOL?

It has been over two years since a wave of protests and revolutions rocked the Arab world, and we have yet to see whether these initial openings will be consolidated into durable, ...

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James Spencer
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on : Wednesday, 22 May, 2013

A Toxic Fog of War

As the UN’s figures for casualties in Syria tops 80,000 who have died from violence—with several thousands more who have died as a second-order effect of the violence, and many...

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Tam Hussein
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on : Tuesday, 21 May, 2013

Blowing up the Al-Nusra Front

In the past two years, Western media coverage has focused on the growing popularity of Salafist jihadi groups like the Al-Nusra Front (Jabhat Al-Nusra) in Syria. These groups have ...

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Stephen Glain
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on : Tuesday, 21 May, 2013

Sibling Rivalry

In an interview last month, Egyptian politician Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh displayed the poise and good humor of a man who had the foresight to step off a bus before it rolled into ...

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Political Editor: The Majalla
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on : Monday, 20 May, 2013

Clashes in Tunis and Kairouan

TUNIS, Asharq Alawsat—Clashes between Salafist extremists and security forces in Tunisia and Kairouan on Sunday have left one Tunisian citizen dead. Eleven policemen and 3 pr...

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Amy Assad
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on : Monday, 20 May, 2013

Awakening Memories

It is no secret that Israeli society consists of a number of diverse ethnic communities. Culturally, artist Dor Guez—who was born in Jerusalem to Palestinian Christian and Tunisi...

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Ahmed Kadry
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on : Sunday, 19 May, 2013

Choose Your Words Wisely

Actor Waleed Hammad dressed up as a woman and walked Egypt’s streets for an investigative television report into what it feels like to be sexually harassed. The program aired...

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Celia Topping
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on : Saturday, 18 May, 2013

In Dreams and Nightmares

Safwan Dahoul’s distinctive canvases, characterized by elegant curvature of line and the Pharaonic-eyed, heavy-browed subjects, all have all shared the same title for the last th...

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