How one woman’s death set Iran on fire
When 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died after being arrested by police in Tehran, months of frustrations with the country’s repressive regime…
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Saudi Arabia’s The Line is what happens when tech bro culture meets Middle Eastern autocracy
The city’s obvious impracticality shows that it is an idea greenlighted by someone no one says no to.
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Joe Biden’s democratic values will be tested in the Middle East
The US president, scheduled to meet leaders in Israel and Saudi Arabia, may find that being committed to human rights…
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With Saudi visit, Joe Biden shows rhetoric against autocracy is bluster
What, exactly, is the US getting out of this?
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Israel’s double standard on flag-waving is a risk to democracy
An annual Israeli nationalist march is going ahead. Compare that with how its authorities react to Palestinian flags.
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Ahdaf Soueif’s Diary: My nephew is on hunger strike in an Egyptian prison. Can the British government save him?
Since 2006, every regime that has come to power in Egypt has tried to silence Alaa Abd el-Fattah – but…
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George Bush’s Iraq War gaffe is unintentionally revealing
A slip of the tongue from the former US president highlights uncomfortable parallels with Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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What Assad can teach Putin about surviving international isolation
The Syrian regime has been partially rehabilitated, and it doesn't even have Russia's natural resources to bargain with.
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