The Egyptian police beat protesters senseless
The video is hard to watch but it shows why freedom in Egypt has not yet been won
Goodbye, Earthlings
Kim Jong-il departs for some distant galaxy of coiffed hairdos and Politburo-issue safari suits
Hitch 1949-2011
Christopher Hitchens wrote like a polymath on a bender and his bombast was a pure reading pleasure
The official end of the Iraq debacle
A bad idea, but it will incubate like a latent virus in right-wing circles and return one day
Paula Scher on the spirit of typeface
PBS has an evangelical video for those who still look through type without noticing it
Mapping the invisible city of Beirut
How a city fed up with thinking about war knows where the next frontlines will be
Fashion collective threeASFOUR brings peace to the Middle East
Hardly: Muslim – Jewish cultural ‘togetherness’ is the easy part
Back flips off the destroyed infrastructure in Gaza
Bringing the daredevil leaps of parkour to the bombed-out buildings of the Gaza Strip
Sharia El Aziz Osman street sign, Cairo, Egypt
I used to live on this street in Zamalek and have now given it to the protagonist in my novel