Early in the evening of June 7, children swarmed in front of the Virgin Mary Church in Cairo’s Imbaba slum, carrying pink carnations.
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Egypt: Convergence of Civilizations
When President Obama stepped into the State Department on May 19 to deliver his long-awaited speech on the Middle East, he did so amid fears that the Arab Spring was devolving into a Summer of Discontent.
Who’s Behind Egypt’s Sectarian Violence?
19-year-old Rojeh Reda says he hasn’t slept much the past five days. Cairo University literature student and Shakespeare buff says he and his two friends have made it their mission to patrol and monitor the streets of his neighborhood, Imbaba, a poor working-class district in Cairo
Watching Borat in Beirut
Whi le it’s not surprising that Lebanese have sought refuge in cinema from the country’s sectarian tensions, it does seem strange that many of them are going to see a movie about, at least in part, sectarian tension in the United States. When it opened on Thanksgiving, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was the third most watched movie in Lebanon, trailing only such blockbuster fare as Casino Royale.
Yemen ‘rebels’ given death penalty
Ten alleged rebels were sentenced to death in Yemen Tuesday, the Gulf nation’s official news agency reported.
Police investigate explosion in Belfast, N. Ireland
Authorities in Northern Ireland said Friday they were investigating an explosion in east Belfast that injured one woman.
State-run media: Yemeni military kills 150 rebels
Yemeni forces killed about 150 Shiite rebels Sunday in northwestern Yemen after the rebels tried to take over the presidential palace in Saada, breaching a recent cease-fire, state-run media reported.
Airstrike reportedly kills dozens at Yemen refugee camp
A government airstrike misfired on a refugee camp in Yemen killed dozens of civilians, officials from the government and humanitarian agencies said. Thursday’s strike was meant to target Shiite rebels, according to the government officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity
A War No Longer on Autopilot: What if Iraq Unravels?
The signature shift in President Barack Obama’s handling of the wars he inherited from the Bush Administration has been to reverse their order of priority. The campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan has eclipsed the stabilization of Iraq in Washington’s focus, which is hardly surprising given the trend lines in the two wars