Editors Choice
Our favorites selections from the week’s most read and discussed news items.
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Monday, 13 May, 2013
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 died and 160 were injured in what was, and remains, the deadliest terrorist attack in the kingdom’s history. The bombing came as a shock to most Saudis and robbed the country of its relative innocence as far as internal violence was concerned. After decades of calm, Saudi Arabia suddenly became the scene ...
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Monday, 25 Mar, 2013
Five years ago in Diyarbakır, a Kurdish city built on a volcanic outcrop over a bend in the River Tigris in southeast Turkey, I met a man who was famous for ending blood feuds. Like many in that troubled region, Sait was a pragmatist: by day, he ran a funeral parlor on a street just inside the medieval walls. A long room full of stools and tables extended out back into a white tiled courtyard, a sort of mix between a tea house and the lobby of a mosque. He was a tiny man, barely five feet...
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Tuesday, 12 Mar, 2013
Faddy Sahloul, the founder of Hand in Hand for Syria, rubs his tired eyes and pulls heavily on his cigarette. From his small flat in Rayhaniya, on the Turkish–Syrian border, Sahl...
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Monday, 28 Jan, 2013
When I was spending summer afternoons copying Arabic lettering off the blackboard at Oxford University’s Oriental Institute, I would often catch myself staring out of the dul...
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Tuesday, 8 Jan, 2013
Across a narrow belt of land along Syria’s northern border, Kurds are staking a claim to self-determination. Where the overstretched Syrian army withdrew voluntarily in July ...
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Tuesday, 27 Nov, 2012
In 2009, Kuwait was the poster boy—or rather, poster girl—for women’s political participation in the Gulf. For the first time in its history, women were elected into the ...
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Thursday, 4 Oct, 2012
Ayatollah Khomeini began the battle in 1988 when he issued a fatwa calling for the killing of the author of a book that not man many people had heard of until then. The Satanic Ver...
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Friday, 22 Jun, 2012
The British Foreign Secretary was right to compare the current situation in Syria to that of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where a catastrophic war raged from 1992 to 1995. The two scena...
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Monday, 21 May, 2012
Article appeared in SUSRIS
To the ten Saudi women attempting a punishing ascent to a major milestone on the world’s highest peak, the dangers of reaching the Mount Everest...
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Wednesday, 23 Nov, 2011
Today Riyadh-based Jadwa Investment circulated its monthly Inflation Report which noted the October year-on-year rate of inflation dipped to 5.2 percent in October from 5.3 p...
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