Middle East Articles

How happy must stopped clocks be on those rare moments when they are right! Small wonder, then, that the likes of Nick Clegg, Mehdi Hasan and George Galloway want to turn the conversation back to Iraq whenever possible. Unfortunately, the anti-war movement is a...

Twenty-two years ago, many thousands of Iraqi Kurds fled to the mountains to escape the wrath of Saddam Hussein. Some of the stories of survival take your breath away. One father and his two daughters climbed a high mountain where their dilemma was simple: stay and...

The coup that brought down President Morsi also shattered the dreams of democracy of many Egyptians. Why did democracy fail in Egypt? The current situation was brought about as a result of a power struggle between the old guard and the new. Morsi wanted to extend his...

It’s all gone quiet in Turkey. Actually, it hasn’t – only in the western media. After what were largely peaceful, legitimate protests, first there was the crackdown in early June, when protesters were violently ejected from Taksim Square, which resulted in four deaths...