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Syria Street, Lebanon

London, United Kingdom - Reports of Syrian forces shooting across Syria's borders with Lebanon and Turkey serve as a reminder that what happens in Syria has serious implications for surrounding…
PUBLISHED: April 19, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2761 words)

A new crisis in the Sahel

Tuareg frustration with Algeria's government has created palpable tension in the country [EPA] London, UK - There is a new crisis in the Sahel: On December 20, Algerian army forces crossed into…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2610 words)

inside the city at the heart of Syria's rebellion

On Thursday morning, I woke up in Homs, the city labelled by the international media as the "capital of the Syrian revolution".Homs has been in more or less open revolt since at least April, but in…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 19, 2011
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3064 words)

Egypt: now what?

On a sweltering night shortly before the start of Ramadan, the Muslim Brotherhood convened a political rally in the Nile Delta town of Shibin El-Kom. Most Cairenes wouldn't even drive through…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 12, 2011
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2139 words)

Egypt's Next Crisis

On a recent Wednesday morning, Zakaria Moh­yeldin steered his father’s black Skoda sedan through a thick belt of Cairo traffic and drove northward into the sleepy farmland of the Nile Delta.
PUBLISHED: May 27, 2011
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5687 words)
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