The UN calls out the Iranian nuclear program
But what if Iran is just bluffing? Saddam did that and it worked for years
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
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
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
Ten years gone
On the street, watching the World Trade Center fall and our nation misinterpret why it happened
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?
Film of a garden party in Alexandria, Egypt c1920s
A lifestyle now lost captured on a film that cannot be watched
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
The Libya my family knew in the 1960s
These archival videos make Libya look more modern than it was but many who knew it then loved it
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
When not at war, Beirut feels like Santa Monica
But the city braces as the UN accuses Hezbollah of assassinating Rafik Hariri in 2005
Where tourists and locals go in Cairo
Genius mash-up map uses Flickr photos to reveal insiders’ favorite areas in cities around the world