In Cairo, Two Faces of Tahrir
Last night, the city saw two autonomous sets of protesters: one dark, violent, and uncertain; the other light, peaceful, and committed… More »
Graeme Wood is an Atlantic contributing editor. His personal site is gcaw.net.
Last night, the city saw two autonomous sets of protesters: one dark, violent, and uncertain; the other light, peaceful, and committed… More »
The protests unified the opposition, but every uprising has its moderates and its radicals… More »
Celebration and national pride overwhelm the Egyptian capital… More »
The crowd came expecting to celebrate victory but dispersed furious and defiant, as Egypt's president refuses to step down… More »
It's now on the protest movement either to take meaningful new steps or risk becoming little more than a carnival… More »
As circumstances on the ground shift less rapidly, the protest movement now faces subtler threats, with dissent and subversion becoming major preoccupations… More »
With Mubarak's supporters bearing down for another round of assaults, demonstrators have found new strength in singing, dancing, and prayer… More »
As the regime plays up the supposed role of "foreign agendas" behind the protests, Mubarak supporters' attacks become more indiscriminate… More »
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell interviews Wood on Wednesday evening, early Thursday morning in Egypt… More »
Regular Egyptians will soon face a choice: help Mubarak or help the demonstrators?… More »
A first-hand account from our correspondent on the scene in Egypt… More »
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The failure of the PJAK, a Kurdish paramilitary group, shows how ruthlessly Tehran is capable of dealing with its internal enemies… More »
For some, the burqa and niqab may offer welcome opportunities to live in anonymity… More »
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Reduced to wielding cudgels, the Lord's Resistance Army is as outmatched as any insurgency could be. So why can't it be stopped?… More »
Two sites, one very large and one very small, dominate my memories of Bucharest in 1992. The very large one was the House of the Republic, a US$10-billion mammoth edifice constructed by dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who wanted his Palace and his Ministries of Truth, Love, and Peace all in one place. The small site was Ceausescu's grave.… More »
TRIPOLI - Afriqiyah Airways is better than its Web site suggests. Founded in 2001 as the airline of Africa (with a hub here, in the inconvenient-to-everywhere hermit state of Libya), it owns a fleet of Airbuses that still give off that nose-singeing, chemical-rich, new-plane smell. It is emphatically not Air Afrique, the West African carrier that went bust in 2002, that nearly shares Afriqiyah's name, and that became known for its eccentric service and proud…… More »
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