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Tuesday, 6 Mar, 2012
Mohamed Mahmoud Street is where the heavy white smoke of tear gas suffocated hundreds of young people while dozens of motorbikes carried the injured to the field hospitals set up in Tahrir square. Mohamed Mahmoud Street is where rubber bullets targeted protesters’ eyes, and where, according to the evidence provided by the protesters, live ammunition was used against them (though the minister of interior denied that forces had fired any kind of ammunition). It was also Mohamed Mahmoud Stree...
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Libya’s neighbors are beginning to feel the consequences of the civil war on their own soil. As the security situation in Libya continues to worsen and the interim government remains unable to control rival militias and tribes, the porous nature of Libya’s border is allowing for the instability to spill over into neighboring countries.
More specifically, Libya’s neighbors have experienced a rise in the trafficking of weapons and drugs, the expansion of terrorist networks, and an inc...
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While it was largely the youth who launched revolutions against the status quo in a number of Arab countries, it has been the veteran politicians and political parties in those...
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Monday, 27 Feb, 2012
On Friday, some 70 foreign ministers and diplomats met in Tunis in the first meeting of the “Friends of Syria”, a coordinated international effort that is attempting to fin...
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Friday, 24 Feb, 2012
America has a problem. This problem has manifested itself in the recent merger of Al-Qaeda, America’s number one enemy, with the Somali insurgent group, Al-Shabab. The latter...
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Tuesday, 21 Feb, 2012
TV weathermen have a cosy life in Egypt – a country where the climate is as predictable as a Russian UN veto.
The wind, for instance, which blows upstream along the Nile f...
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Monday, 20 Feb, 2012
The lingering tension between Sudan, and the newest state in Africa, South Sudan has escalated in recent days. Oil-rich South Sudan has shut down its production of crude oil, a...
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Monday, 13 Feb, 2012
On Sunday , the Arab League called on the United Nations to pass a resolution on sending a joint UN-Arab peacekeeping force to Syria, in response to mounting violence in the co...
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Thursday, 9 Feb, 2012
The Palestinian Authority (PA) power-sharing agreement brokered in Doha on Monday comes at an unfortunate time in Middle Eastern affairs. While all ink is reserved for the cris...
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Wednesday, 8 Feb, 2012
The young football supporter looked like a Napoleonic foot-soldier he strode through the heaving streets of downtown Cairo.
His left eye was covered with a fresh gauze – a...
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