How quickly we forget the murder of colleagues. The Algerian press, freer than it has been for years (though that's not…
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The Algerian government is trumpeting the revolution that put an end to French colonial rule half a century ago. But what followed…
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Ypres and Palestine, the Jewish Holocaust and Iraqi Kurdistan. Spot the connection? As a schoolboy, Belgian author Erwin Mortier and his…
The latest cables released by Wikileaks show that the emirate's growing power is seen as a threat elsewhere Despite the leaked…
Ayman Nour touches his sideburns, just a shade grey beneath his black hair: not bad for a 45-year old, but not up…
In any other country, the current American bribe to Israel, and the latter's reluctance to accept it, in return for even a…
I guess that you have to live here to feel the vibrations. Take last week, when I instinctively ducked on my balcony…
The speed with which the Baghdad church massacre by al-Qa'ida has frightened the peoples of the Middle East is a sign of…
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