Enrichment process
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Last year’s ill-advised venture by American Vogue into Middle East politics has been given new oxygen. Joan Juliet Buck, former Vogue editor and the author of a puff piece on Syria’s first lady, has revealed…
Whilst it shouldn’t come as any surprise, al-Jazeera reports that Iraqi Kurds are running military training camps for their Syrian brothers. The President of Iraqi Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, says that…
In the broad brush strokes used by the international media to depict the Middle East, a lot of the detail gets lost. And like a giant mosaic, an effect of this is that we tend to see only the same big…
Although Yasser Arafat was 75 when he died and hadn’t exactly had an easy life, there were always suspicions surrounding his quite sudden collapse into severe ill health and death. Conspiracy theories…
When I first read about the shooting down of a Turkish fighter aircraft by Syrian air defences I was amazed. Not by the act. Not by the fact that the Syrians were so on the ball. But by the fact that the…
These days we tend to think of Syria as a land of civil war, civilian atrocities and a repressive government, a country slowly but surely sliding into a full-scale meltdown. But now the US State Department…
A sad statistical milestone has just been passed in America: this year more troops have died from suicide than from battle. With Iraq out of the equation and the gradual winding down of the Afghanistan…
Whilst Syria has taken some of Iran’s usual bad boy limelight in the last couple of weeks, they’re still lurking in the background of any solution to regional stability. Indeed, every translator’s favourite…
Imagine a woman locked into an arranged marriage at an early age. She’s been living for decades with an abusive, unemployed, substance-abusing husband. He beats her and the kids regularly and is pretty…
The massacre in the Syrian town of Houla over the weekend is one of those events that seems to provide a tipping point of outrage. It’s not a particularly remarkable event by the standards of the Syrian…