THE WASHINGTON POST By Editorial, Friday, April 22, 5:16 PM FOR THE PAST five weeks, growing numbers of Syrians have been gathering in cities and towns across the country to demand political freedom — and the security forces of dictator Bashar al-Assad have been responding by opening fire on them. According to Syrian human rights groups, more […]
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MIDDLE EAST NEWS APRIL 23, 2011 By MATT BRADLEY, MARC CHAMPION, MARGARET COKER, SAM DAGHER, JOE PARKINSON, BILL SPINDLE and ERIK STIER Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesAn Egyptian protester waved his national flag as tens of thousands gathered for a demonstration at Cairo’s Tahrir Square on April 8, 2011. SIDI BOU ZID, Tunisia—Ali Bouazizi, who owns a
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OPINION APRIL 13, 2011 Athens Descends Into Anarchy The real Greek disease is contempt for the law, and the political failure to combat it. By TAKIS MICHAS Athens Greece’s public debt may reach 150% of GDP this year, an alarming possibility that has captivated outside observers. But in the final analysis, the major issue confronting
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APRIL 10, 2011, 5:17 A.M. ET Zuma Press An Army bus burns in Tahrir Square as protesters mill about. CAIRO—Soldiers beat hundreds of protesters with clubs and fired heavy volleys of gunfire into the air in a pre-dawn attack that broke up a demonstration in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square in a sign of increasing tensions
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APRIL 9, 2011 The contradictory faces of political Islam in post-Mubarak Egypt. By MATTHEW KAMINSKI Cairo Two months after Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, Egyptian politics are a dervish of confused agitation. Each day, it seems, a new party forms to fill liberal, Nasserist, Marxist, Islamist and other niches. A joke has it that 10% of Egyptians
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APRIL 7, 2011 Mobs murder more than 20 innocents in the name of God—and the commander of Afghan forces rebukes a publicity-hungry pastor in Florida. By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ It must have come as a disappointment to the mullahs of Mazar-e-Sharif—who sent the faithful out on Friday with instructions to avenge the recent insult to the
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MARCH 26, 2011 The regime has killed more than 100 people, but protesters press on. By AHED AL HENDI A few days ago, my friend Hussam Melhim, a Syrian blogger jailed for writing a poem criticizing Bashar al-Assad, was released after five years in prison. I too was jailed by Assad’s regime. After 40 days
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Victor Davis Hanson March 17, 2011 12:00 A.M. President Hamlet Thinking out every possible side of a question can mean never acting on any of them. More than 400 years ago, William Shakespeare wrote a riveting tragedy about a young, charismatic Danish prince who vowed to do the right thing in
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