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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
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on : Monday, 20 Feb, 2012
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Against Cynicism

The veteran American reporter Anthony Shadid died on Thursday while on assignment in Syria for The New York Times. He was a well-respected, award-winning Middle East correspondent who had worked for a string of prestigious newsgathering organizations based in the US. He was 43 years old at the time of his death, and leaves behind a wife and two children. He collapsed as he was smuggling himself across the Turkish-Syrian border, together with a colleague from the newspaper, photographer Ty...

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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
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on : Wednesday, 8 Feb, 2012
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Al-Arabi and the Arab League

  Nabil Al-Arabi was poised to crown a long career as an international lawyer and civil servant in Egypt’s foreign ministry after he accepted the position of Foreign Minister in the first post-Mubarak cabinet in 2011. Three months later, he became the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States. Now, thanks to the crisis in Syria, the forces that elevated him to this position could ensure that his career concludes with a failure. Born in 1935 in Cairo, Al- Arabi began his t...

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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
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on : Thursday, 26 Jan, 2012
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A Reluctant Leader

After months of reneged promises and prevarication, President Ali Abdullah Saleh has finally transferred his powers to his deputy and jetted off into exile, reportedly in Oman....

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Maryam Ishani
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on : Tuesday, 10 Jan, 2012
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The Tightrope Prime Minister

Tunisian Prime Minister, Hamadi Jebali, has committed himself to walking a fine line between advocating his own ideology of political Islam and safeguarding a stable democratic...

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Maryam Ishani
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on : Friday, 16 Dec, 2011
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The Dissident President

Moncef Marzouki’s over-sized glasses are his and his party’s trademark. Tunisia’s Congrés Pour la République (CPR) chose red spectacles to remind voters of their leader...

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Maryam Ishani
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on : Thursday, 1 Dec, 2011
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The Brother Leader

The press conference was set to start at noon, but at one the long table at the front of the tightly packed room remained empty. The cameramen were still jostling to set up their...

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Maryam Ishani
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on : Wednesday, 2 Nov, 2011
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The Brothers Assad

  In April, as the crisis in Syria was kicking off but international attention was focused on the carnage in Libya, Fashion Magazine Vogue ran a profile of Syrian first...

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on : Friday, 21 Oct, 2011
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Across the Political Spectrum

It is a few days until the first democratic elections in the history of Tunisia take place, following the revolution that toppled President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and opened t...

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Maryam Ishani
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on : Tuesday, 18 Oct, 2011
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Fighter at a Neglected Front

  The 32-year-old wears her scarf loosely, a style more familiar in Iran or the Gulf than Yemen and she hasn’t settled her mind yet about the prize that has put her at ...

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Paula Mejia
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on : Monday, 19 Sep, 2011
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A Herculean Task

Mahmoud Jibril, who has been de-facto prime minister of the country since 23 March, when the National Transitional Council (NTC) was instituted, explained from Tripoli last Thu...

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