Middle East

High life

12 October 2013 9:00 am

 New York Libyans are among the most civilised people on earth. When a Russian hooker (I assume) killed a Libyan…

Egyptian supporters of the deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi (back) clash with riot police in Cairo early on July 27, 2013. Mass rallies by supporters and opponents of Mohamed Morsi swept Egypt Friday, as the authorities formally detained the ousted Islamist president accusing him of conspiring with the Palestinian group Hamas. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit:STR/AFP/Getty Images)

How to run a revolution

3 August 2013 9:00 am

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood should have learnt from Nasser

Arab Spring

3 August 2013 9:00 am

Two hundred and forty-years ago next Tuesday, Thomas Gray was buried in his mother’s grave in Stoke Poges churchyard. In…

The good Iranian

27 July 2013 9:00 am

If President Hassan Rouhani is anything like his mentor, peace has another chance

The real Arab Spring

13 July 2013 9:00 am

Middle East protest has its roots not in Islam but in frustrated enterprise