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Sunday, 19 May, 2013
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 earlier this month, and perhaps best exemplifies one of the major achievements of the January 25 revolution: the heightened awareness of the endemic sexual harassment of women on Egypt’s streets. Hammad’s video footage of his secret assignments, as well as the widespread coverage his story has received, would have...
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Saturday, 18 May, 2013
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 three decades: Dream. Yet what is most striking about this latest series of paintings, showcased at Ayyam Gallery in Dahoul’s first solo UK show, is the shift away from the muted sepia palette that usually pervades his work. Here we see only monochrome; stark black and white images peer out at the viewer from the walls...
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Friday, 17 May, 2013
The two most populous Arab states after Egypt, Algeria and Iraq have been without a president: Algeria for a few weeks, and Iraq a few months. The two countries rank among the ...
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Friday, 17 May, 2013
On June 14, Iran will hold its long-awaited presidential elections. The vast majority of the 686 individuals who have registered to contest the elections will not appear on the bal...
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Thursday, 16 May, 2013
On May 11, two powerful car bombs ripped through the Turkish town of Reyhanlı on the Syrian border, killing at least 51 people. This was not only the worst cross-border spillo...
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2013
The Pentagon recently announced Washington’s approval of a new USD 10 billion arms sale that for the first time involves three of its Middle East allies: Israel, Saudi Arabia and...
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2013
In 2008, the then fresh-faced US presidential hopeful Barack Obama promised to shut down the detention center that had become famous as a symbol of the presidency of George W. Bush...
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Tuesday, 14 May, 2013
The contending Lebanese factions have taken their fight from the streets of Beirut and Tripoli to those of Damascus and Homs. Yet, battling it out elsewhere does not mean that Leba...
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Monday, 13 May, 2013
“For years, I have told my foreign friends that there is no such issue as the Armenian question,” confided a Turkish businessman in his fifties. “Now, I feel cheated,” he s...
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Sunday, 12 May, 2013
Whoever became Egypt's first Arab Spring president would have faced almost insurmountable challenges in realizing a stable and successful transition. Egypt's uprising emerged from ...
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