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Contextualizing the lives, achievements – and even downfalls – of people in the global spotlight.
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Wednesday, 17 Apr, 2013
More than twenty years after her resignation, the late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher remains a global brand. A memorable line from her 1980 Conservative Party conference speech, “The lady’s not for turning,” became her sales pitch. Like the marketing slogans printed on the labels of the tinned goods in her father’s grocery store, the words were her promise that no matter the circumstances, the product would always remain the same.
Yet in spite of her international profile,...
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Monday, 29 Oct, 2012
At the end of his first term, President Obama’s public foreign policy in the Middle East has reflected his presidency as a whole: cautious, measured, haunted by its own high-blown rhetoric, and in many ways a deep disappointment to the young idealists who flocked to vote for him. In private, he has presided over a huge covert expansion of American spying and paramilitary operations against Al-Qaeda and its affiliates in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Yemen—and this is to say nothing of the hardl...
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Friday, 21 Sep, 2012
John Christopher Stevens, the American ambassador to Libya, died sometime on the night of Tuesday, 11 September 2012, on the anniversary of the infamous attacks on New York and...
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Tuesday, 11 Sep, 2012
Watching Mitt Romney address the Republican National Convention this August, it is easy to see that he is comfortable being the center of attention and that he has been there many ...
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Friday, 10 Aug, 2012
Not much is known about the current Prime Minister of Egypt, Dr Hisham Qandil, except for general details about his education and career as a water and irrigation engineer. He is s...
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Wednesday, 11 Jul, 2012
Massoud Barzani came into the world in unique circumstances. He was born on 16 August 1946 in the short-lived, Soviet-backed Mahabad Republic, a by-product of the British and S...
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Thursday, 21 Jun, 2012
The accusations from the US that Russia is continuing to ship offensive weapons to the Syrian government while it battles against rebels is bound to focus more attention on Russia ...
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Wednesday, 2 May, 2012
Khaled Meshaal, the exile-based leader of Hamas, is, if nothing else, a political survivor. As the head of a religious militant group that prioritizes party discipline and orga...
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Friday, 20 Apr, 2012
The competition to be president of Egypt now looks like a three-horse race between Amr Moussa, the ex-Muslim Brotherhood moderate Abdelmonim Abolfotouh, and the Brotherhood’s...
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Wednesday, 4 Apr, 2012
In an official statement on Saturday, the Muslim Brotherhood announced it had reversed its decision not to nominate a presidential candidate. The news caught many by surprise. ...
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