Dr Jamal Naja meets me in a coffee shop just down the road from his home in Alamuddin Street, a quiet almost…
The Mubarak family still believe it was Al Jazeera wot did it. Without the Qatari satellite channel's constant live coverage of Tahrir…
Two days before Gaddafi was murdered, I was reading the morning newspapers in Beirut and discovered a remarkable story on most front…
So there was the reporter from Syrian television asking what I thought of the situation in Syria, and there was I saying…
It's an ill wind, etc. Today my thoughts are not with the Gaddafi family but with Bassam and Saniya al-Ghossain, whose daughter…
We loved him. We hated him. Then we loved him again. Blair slobbered over him. Then we hated him again. Then La…
Cross-border tank incursions; four Syrian opponents of the Damascus regime kidnapped in Lebanon, supposedly in a vehicle belonging to the Syrian embassy…
Forgotten soldiers. We all know about Gallipoli; hopelessly conceived mess, dreamed up by Churchill to move the Great War from the glued…
The statistics are easy, the future is not. Up to 20 million Copts in Egypt, 10 per cent of the population, the…
They wear their wounds well, the buildings of the old "green line". Forget the new Jerusalem hotels across the road, the state-of-the-art…
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