Arab arts and political radicals in London this weekend
And there are cool Arab arts of all sorts in London this summer
On the Palestinian request for UN recognition
A former AIPAC lobbyist says Palestine is ‘imaginary’ and unworthy of UN recognition. Surprise
Samandal comic book, debut issue, 2008, Beirut, Lebanon
An eclectic mix of graphic styles and languages that captures the cultural mixed-up-ness of Beirut
A landmark moment in Turkey
The decades-long shadow play between the military and the state took a most dramatic turn last week
Into the darkness of the New York Times comments section
The central challenge for a superpower: strong views, little knowledge, limitless power to intervene
Is this really Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh?
And what was he thinking he’d gain from appearing on TV like this?
Google Maps finally does a better job hiding Tel Aviv
Israel’s many satellite image “parks” change their colors
‘Sheikh’: a spelling manifesto
Finally, one Middle East conflict that can be settled: it’s not pronounced like ‘chic’
President Ali Abdullah Saleh finally leaves Yemen
It is a shame for Saleh, and Yemen, that it took violence to get him out
Newsreel: ’67 War and party balloons for Red China
Newsreels declare: US neutral in ’67 War in the Middle East and Red China fears party balloons
Mubarak on trial: should the past be prosecuted?
Forgetting the past is unacceptable, but so too is shelving it through superficial justice
How my journey to Beirut ended up on an art gallery wall
I had become a migratory subject for the artist Walead Beshty
On Obama’s second big Middle East speech
There has been a revolution in the Arab world but, thus far, no revolution in American thinking
John McCain demolishes the Bush-era torture apologists
Torture didn’t get us Osama bin Laden, but it cost us dearly
An evocative group portrait at a cafe in Egypt, 1934
A moment captured during an outing to Roda island in the 1930s
My grandfather’s sketch of the home he’d found in Cairo in 1956
Part of an effort to entice his family to join him in Egypt in the aftermath of the 1956 war
Osama bin Laden killed after 3,519 days of freedom
Osama bin Laden is dead but it is the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions that are killing Al Qaeda
Osama bin Laden still free 3,514 days later
What is most astonishing is that there is no public pressure whatsoever to capture him
Another dinosaur nears the end, this time in Yemen
Yemen is a hard place to govern but Ali Abdullah Saleh has done a poor job of it all the same
Reading the Times on the architectural symbolism of Cairo
Much right and a few key things wrong about Tahrir Square in Cairo, the center of the revolution
The truth about the Egyptian military
In the revolution, Egyptian reverence for the military shamed them into not opening fire. Now what happens?