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What we can learn from A Gay Girl in Damascus
By Nada Akl LONDON: The elaborate fiction that was the blog “A Gay…
Pulling the plug on Lukashenko
By Mitchell Orenstein WASHINGTON, DC: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is a master of…
Religion and the public sphere in India
By Christophe Jaffrelot In contrast to most South Asian countries, modern India has…
A perfect storm of butterflies
By Philip Whitfield CAIRO: History and prose join at the hip. Richard, Duke…
The Middle East’s slow-motion revolution
By El Hassan Bin Talal AMMAN: There seem to be a thousand and…
Can Egyptian solidarity inspire Israelis and Palestinians?
By Khaled Diab JERUSALEM: It was not a good start to 2011. The…
Asia after the Afghan War
By Yuriko Koike TOKYO: July will mark two milestones in America’s sometimes-tortured relations…
Together we must fight piracy
By Lene Espersen Piracy can’t be condemned too strongly. Piracy is a breach…
The Andean engagé
By Jorge Castañeda MEXICO CITY: The role of the politically committed intellectual has…