North Africa
Understanding Libya's Michael Corleone
The international community saw Muammar's Western-educated, reform-minded son as the best hope for a freer, more democratic Libya. Did they get him wrong?
INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | MARCH 7, 2011
Harvard for Tyrants
How Muammar al-Qaddafi taught a generation of bad guys.
BY DOUGLAS FARAH | MARCH 4, 2011
Pax Romana
A brief history of modern Italy's failed African adventure.
BY CAMERON ABADI | MARCH 4, 2011
Roman Ruins
How Muammar al-Qaddafi hoodwinked Italy for decades.
BY MAURIZIO MOLINARI | MARCH 3, 2011
Morocco's Moderate Revolution
Unlike their Arab brothers and sisters in Tunisia and Egypt, Moroccan protesters are asking for modest amounts of change. For now.
BY LAILA LALAMI | FEBRUARY 21, 2011
Echoes of Belgrade
From Minsk to Cairo, the nonviolent democratic uprisings of the past decade have been influenced by the tactics and imagery of Serbia's 2000 Bulldozer Revolution.
FEBRUARY 16, 2011
18 Days That Shook the World
From the first protest to Mubarak's fall, the Egyptian revolution in photos.
FEBRUARY 11, 2011
The Crumbling Anchors of Mubarak's Support
Mubarak may be holding on for now, but every day a little bit more, his base of support is eroding beneath him.
BY ASHRAF KHALIL | FEBRUARY 9, 2011
The Revolution Is Not Over
As the protests in Cairo enter their third week, the movement is picking up steam once again.
BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | FEBRUARY 8, 2011
Why We Can't Rule Out an Egyptian Reign of Terror
A historian's look at revolution and its discontents.
BY DAVID A. BELL | FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Gimme Shelter
Why is Hosni Mubarak clinging to power? Maybe because the life of an exiled dictator isn't what it used to be.
BY SCOTT HORTON | FEBRUARY 2, 2011
The New Arab World Order
Don't mistake the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt for 1978 Iran. But that doesn't mean that U.S. diplomacy in the Arab world is going to be any less complicated going forward.
BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN | JANUARY 28, 2011
Suicide for a Cause
What's behind the Middle East's new trend of self-immolation?
BY ADAM LANKFORD | JANUARY 19, 2011
A Middle-Class Revolution
Ben Ali's Tunisia showed all the signs of being a stable and relatively prosperous country. Until it imploded.
BY ERIC GOLDSTEIN | JANUARY 18, 2011
The First Twitter Revolution?
Not so fast. The Internet can take some credit for toppling Tunisia's government, but not all of it.
BY ETHAN ZUCKERMAN | JANUARY 14, 2011
Why Tunisia's Revolution Is Islamist-Free
And how their absence explains the quick fall of Ben Ali's regime.
BY MICHAEL KOPLOW | JANUARY 14, 2011
The Sick Man of the Middle East
Is Tunisia's strongman president about to fall?
BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | JANUARY 12, 2011
The Sunshine Policy
The United States has quietly asked allies like Yemen and Pakistan for some extraordinary favors in its war on terrorism. Is it really so terrible if WikiLeaks forces them to explain those demands?
BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 10, 2010
Egypt's Pro-Women Election Turns Ugly
When Egypt's government announced its new parliamentary quota for women, it was hailed as a step for gender equality. The reality on the ground? Not so much.
BY SARAH A. TOPOL | NOVEMBER 27, 2010
A Tale of Two Parties
The incredible story of how Egypt's entrenched regime will stop at nothing to stifle the birth of a liberal opposition movement.
BY ERIC TRAGER | NOVEMBER 18, 2010
The New Lost Generation
Suicide rates for troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq are out of control, and post-traumatic stress disorder is reaching epidemic proportions. But is the Pentagon willing to tally the true cost of war?
BY RON CAPPS | AUGUST 10, 2010
The Long Emergency
Barack Obama's administration is taking an expansive, ambitious approach to global health. Does that mean giving up on combating HIV/AIDS?
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JUNE 25, 2010
Fix the Police
One of the most urgent tasks confronting Gen. David Petraeus is also one of the least glamorous: reforming Afghanistan's corrupt and ineffective police.
BY RONALD E. NEUMANN | JUNE 25, 2010
Help Wanted
Now is no time for the world to go wobbly on Somalia.
BY OMAR ABDIRASHID ALI SHARMARKE | JUNE 21, 2010
The Worst of the Worst
Bad dude dictators and general coconut heads.
BY GEORGE B.N. AYITTEY | JULY/AUGUST 2010
The Myth of a Moderate Tunisia
Beneath the modern trappings of President Ben Ali's regime lies just another repressive dictatorship.
BY RASHA MOUMNEH | APRIL 26, 2010
Morocco's Misguided War on Terror
How the persecution of Islamists across North Africa, in the name of fighting terrorism, is sowing the seeds for future instability.
BY AIDA ALAMI | APRIL 9, 2010
Caught in the Net: Tunisia's First Lady
DECEMBER 13, 2007
How much would a no-fly zone over Syria cost?
BY KEVIN BARON
Cuba's greatest export isn't cigars -- it's doctors
BY ELIAS GROLL
No, the Spanish can't be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Is there a relationship between more women in government and happier mothers?
BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH
Odierno: Sequestration leaves military unprepared for Syria
BY KEVIN BARON
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