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?
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
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