On Arab intellectuals during the revolution
Really, did anyone need an intellectual to tell them what the revolution was about?
What to make of this 19th C. Arab-Chinese-Peruvian portrait?
Long distance cultural exchange began much earlier than we sometimes imagine
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?
Film of a garden party in Alexandria, Egypt c1920s
A lifestyle now lost captured on a film that cannot be watched
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
Where tourists and locals go in Cairo
Genius mash-up map uses Flickr photos to reveal insiders’ favorite areas in cities around the world
Arab arts and political radicals in London this weekend
And there are cool Arab arts of all sorts in London this summer
Into the darkness of the New York Times comments section
The central challenge for a superpower: strong views, little knowledge, limitless power to intervene
‘Sheikh’: a spelling manifesto
Finally, one Middle East conflict that can be settled: it’s not pronounced like ‘chic’
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
Sahrawi refugees photographed by Andrew McConnell
Incredible, luminous figures stand out against landscapes of perpetual night
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