Posts Tagged ‘politics’

What to make of the elections in Egypt?

Millions turned out, but will the electoral process prove worthy of the hopes invested in it?

Egypt votes today, but it’s a mess

The elections were badly organized, the military undermined them, but turnout has been significant

What is going on with the Arab League?

They actually did something. Sanctions on Syria won’t work, but it’s a miracle all the same


The truth revealed, at last, in Tahrir Square

The military was always an obstacle to democracy. Now everyone can see that

Seif al-Islam captured in the Sahara

Last of the Gaddafi clan was found in the Libyan desert near Ubari, which I visited in 2004

Hope or acquiescence in Myanmar?

Aung San Suu Kyi returns to politics, but is she a challenge to the junta or a cover?


Dreamy visions of Gaddafi at the London Review of Books

Hugh Roberts slams NATO for not negotiating with a man who vowed to fight to the last drop of blood

Video of the Egyptian army running over civilians with APCs

But the Egyptian army rules the country, so it is the protesters who face military trials

There’s a soixante-huitard feel to these Occupy protests

Will Zuccotti Park be the Blvd Saint-Michel of our era? These posters suggest a similar spirit


On the Overblown Islamist Threat

Breathe deeply right-wingers: even the former Jordanian foreign minister doesn’t fear the Islamists

On Arab intellectuals during the revolution

Really, did anyone need an intellectual to tell them what the revolution was about?

Beware, dictatorship can return

Voting is the answer, says this campaign in Tunisia


Tunisia votes, Islamists win

This is good news, actually

Saudi women given the right to vote, at last

Too bad that no one’s vote counts much in Saudi, so it’s mostly symbolic

Palestine goes to the UN

Palestine already exists. Only its form remains to be determined


Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh is back

As promised. That’s bad news. Now what happens?

The Yemeni government kills its children

After months of peaceful protests, the Yemeni government heads down the path of Libya and Syria

Syria jumps the shark

Syrian TV says Al Jazeera is building movie sets of Syrian cities to film fake rebel victories


The New York Times launches India Ink

Its first ever country-specific blog, on all things Indian. Why I’ve waited twenty years for this

Where were you on September 11th?

Mapping where I stood on that day, and where others stood around the world at the same moment

A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne

The best book about the 9/11 attacks and war in Iraq, though it is about France in 1950s Algeria


The people we are assassinating in Pakistan

Osama bin Laden’s death was big news but this site tracks the quiet killings

Liberal hawk Bill Keller changes his mind on the Iraq war

But the former New York Times executive editor still misses the main reason to have opposed the war

My journals on September 11th, 2001

I still can’t believe how slowly I grasped the scale of what was happening that day