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As Egyptians count the votes to choose their first democratically-elected President, their neighbours in Israel are in a sphincter-clenching hiatus to see which way the cards fall. The winner of the Presidency…
The announcement this week of a coalition between Israel’s two biggest parties has pundits scrambling to provide polar opposite pronouncements on whether this is the death or resurrection of democracy…
A year after Osama bin Laden met up with the pointy end of Seal Team Six, it’s fascinating to hear that he was worried about the proliferation of terrorism. In a series of declassified “battlefield documents…
During the First World War, America began to build and test its first robot attack plane. Called the Curtiss-Sperry Flying Bomb, it was basically a full-sized biplane with some primitive radio controls…
While the press corps of some countries spend thousands of hours and millions of words speculating on minor leadership shuffles, their colleagues in Libya enjoy a slightly greater economy of scale. This…
In late 2004 war nerds all over the world were nuking the popcorn and drinking in the sight of the US Marines going toe-to-toe with insurgents in Fallujah. Finally the cowardly terrorists were going to…
How do you end the conflict in Syria? Easy. Just get the President’s missus to bend his ear about human rights abuses and he’s bound to stop. The latest hit with the slacktivists is to sign a petition…
With all the focus on Sunnis and Shi’ites, and now even the Allawites in Syria, it’s easy to forget about that other big Islamic sect – the Druze. The Druze are associated with the Ismaili side of Islam…
The banning of (at this stage) ten candidates for Egypt’s parliamentary elections sends some worrying signals about the mechanisms for democracy in the Arab world’s most populated nation. Some candidates…
In one of those bizarre and seemingly random collisions between social media and the real world the Kingdom of Bahrain looked like it was going to miss out on the chance of seeing a Formula 1 Grand Prix…