Women have rights and we’re not going to lose them now. In the days immediately following the toppling of President Zine El Abedine Ben Ali on 14 January, Tunis was […]
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Over Easter weekend, the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad launched a brutal crackdown on the peaceful protests that have been gathering force across the country in the last five […]
After events in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Bahrain, Syrian citizens have finally found a voice again There are small numbers of tourists in the old city of Damascus and the […]
Tunis. These are exhilarating times for the Middle East. In the wake of Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution, which brought down the brutally repressive 23-year regime of Zine el Abedine Ben Ali, […]
For more than two weeks after Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali’s repressive 23-year regime was toppled and replaced by an interim government in mid-January, protests continued on Habib Bourguiba Avenue in […]
Palestinian campaigners in Lebanon have discovered a new way to protest – by breaking world records. On 15 May, the world’s longest keffiyeh, or scarf, was made in Lebanon to […]
Intelligent, unpredictable, occasionally ruthless, Jumblatt shows that he is still very much in the game. The hills along the coastal road south from Beirut are blemished by ugly highrises and […]
I was determined that this latest crisis wouldn’t keep me out of the country of my birth. I landed in Beirut on May 21, the day of the agreement in […]
Moving between remote villages, glinting between patchwork fields of spinach, wheat and cotton, and parked decoratively in front of Byzantine ruins, motorcycles appear to be ubiquitous in Syria. They carry […]