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Q&A with Yasser al-Najjar, member of the Free Syrian Army

03 Oct 2012
Yasser al-Najjar is a member of the Syrian National Council, and also part of the Free Syrian Army. When he is not in Syria coordinating between different battalions, he is a nomad between Egypt, Turkey and Qatar, raising support for the...
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Syrian rebels find hostile buffer zone in Lebanon

01 Oct 2012
EAST LEBANON — Abu Fakher Zaarour, a farmer in his 60s, has lived all his life in Masharee al-Qaa, a strip of farms in between Syria and Lebanon. He’s not allowed to drive strangers in the area at the moment, because for the...
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Aleppo dispatch: Among Syria's internally displaced

30 Sep 2012
The distant thud of an artillery strike breaks the illusion of tranquility in a small village several kilometers to the north of Aleppo, Syria. There is little else to hear except children in the distance and a light breeze blowing through...
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More than protest: The story behind the Barcelona Congress clashes

26 Sep 2012
BARCELONA — The appointment was at 11 am last Friday in downtown Barcelona. The protest had been organized in secret, so nobody else — and certainly not the Catalan police force — was expecting it. Everybody arrived on...
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Caught in the middle: Gypsies in Jerusalem marginalized in conflict-laden city

23 Sep 2012
JERUSALEM — While it is a community that has lived in the city for centuries, not many have heard of the Dom in Jerusalem. “Few people know there is a community called Dom and that we are the Gypsies of the Middle East,”...
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In the name of the Lord: The politics of blasphemy in Pakistan

12 Sep 2012
KARACHI, Pakistan — A young girl dressed in a green T-shirt and brown pants stepped out of the armed military vehicle, her face hidden. As cameramen scrambled around trying to get a shot and police tried to clear the way, a man ran...
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Q&A with Ameur Larayedh: Ennahda versus Salafis

01 Sep 2012
Egypt Independent met with Ameur Larayedh, Tunisia's Ennahda political bureau head, constitution-writing assembly member and well-known moderate, who returned to Tunisia last year after 20 years of exile in France. He spoke about...
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Deadly clashes in Lebanon reflect Syrian divisions

Pictures of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (R) and Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri are seen on key rings at a gift shop in the port city of Sidon, southern Lebanon.
31 Aug 2012
TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Abou Ahmad has been fighting in Tripoli’s Sunni neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh since he was a teenager. Battles come and go. But for the past few days he has felt the fighting was not going to end. “...
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Arabs may not press Israel resolution at IAEA meeting

Launching of the new Iranian missile from the Iranian television
29 Aug 2012
VIENNA  — Arab states may decide against targeting Israel over its assumed nuclear arsenal at the U.N. atomic agency's annual conference so as not to imperil wider efforts for a nuclear weapons-free Middle East, diplomats...
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Tunisia’s Salafi flavor

A child wrapped in the Tunisian flag sits on the shoulders of a demonstrator who with hundreds of Tunisians turned out to demand jobs and dignity as the north African country marks a year to the day since its despot Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled into exile, Habib Bourguiba Avenue, Tunis, January 14, 2012. Some demonstrators, wearing the red and white of the national flag, called for recognition of the "martyrs" killed during the weeks of unrest before Ben Ali was toppled.
29 Aug 2012
TUNIS — The appearance of Mohamed Khouja, the leader of Tunisia’s first licensed Salafi political party, does not overtly show his ideological outlook or conform to preconceived images of hardline Islamists. As he picks up the...
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