Posts Tagged ‘revolution’

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

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

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

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

Are American conservatives the new French?

Libya suggests that conservatives want chest-beating glory more than they want success


The Gaddafi family photo album

Gaddafi made himself a celebrity. Is that why the Times decided to publish his stolen family album?

In Egypt, the disillusionment sets in

Egypt had half a revolution that now needs to be made whole

Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh can see!

It’s a miracle! How else to explain his remarkable recovery in a Saudi hospital?


Gaddafi’s mercenaries reveal all

They are the ‘smart money’ in the stockmarket battlefield and started to flee two weeks ago

Mabrouk, ya Seif al-Islam!

Gaddafi’s son shows up in the night. Did he accidentally reveal where his father is hiding?

They are dancing in Tripoli

Suddenly, the rebels have taken the heart of Libya’s capital and Gaddafi’s end is near


Into the darkness of the New York Times comments section

The central challenge for a superpower: strong views, little knowledge, limitless power to intervene

Was the Egypt revolution a ‘foreseeable surprise’?

Slate says yes, but bungles the argument

Is this really Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh?

And what was he thinking he’d gain from appearing on TV like this?


The CIA history in Syria

Americans might forget but the Syrians surely remember

President Ali Abdullah Saleh finally leaves Yemen

It is a shame for Saleh, and Yemen, that it took violence to get him out

Mubarak on trial: should the past be prosecuted?

Forgetting the past is unacceptable, but so too is shelving it through superficial justice