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Arab revolt: Middle East uprisings

  • 5 Nov 2015

    Protests as Egypt’s President al-Sisi welcomed at Number 10

    Pro and anti-Sisi demonstrators clash as David Cameron welcomes the controversial leader, who is accused of mass human rights abuses.

  • 5 Oct 2015
    Lindsey Hilsum

    Palmyra: Syrians condemn destruction of ancient site

    People sometimes say that foreign journalists make too much of the wanton demolition in historical sites such as Palmyra and Nineveh. People’s lives matter more, they say.

  • 24 Aug 2015
    Lindsey Hilsum

    Migrants or refugees: what’s the right word?

    After I reported on scenes of desperation at the Greece/Macedonia border, there was nearly as much outrage about the use of language as the plight of the people.

  • 3 Jun 2015
    Lindsey Hilsum

    Could Libya’s 4 x 4 daredevils drive out the Islamic State?

    They perform dangerous turns in 4x4s on the sand dunes of Misrata. But what chance Libya’s young men will turn their testosterone to fight a new enemy, more dangerous than Gadaffi?

  • 16 May 2015

    Mohamed Morsi: death sentence for Egypt’s former president

    Egypt’s first freely elected president, Mohamed Morsi, is sentenced to death along with 105 other members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

  • 27 Feb 2015
    Lindsey Hilsum

    Iraq: why looting can be a good thing

    Better that at least some vestiges of previous civilisations be kept safe in the great museums of London, Berlin and New York, courtesy of the colonial looters of yesteryear.

  • 23 Feb 2015
    Lindsey Hilsum

    ‘Down with military rule!’ – Sisi and the realpolitik of today’s Egypt

    What do you do when the only person standing up to your worst enemy is a thug and a bully? Not a playground problem but the realpolitik of the Middle East today.

  • 23 Feb 2015

    Al Jazeera in Egypt: the inside story

    A Channel 4 News investigation raises questions about whether the Qatar-based network did enough to protect its staff in Egypt.

  • 22 Jan 2015
    Lindsey Hilsum

    Today’s anti-IS meeting is fantasy masquerading as policy

    With Iraq riven by sectarianism and corruption, don’t expect any public statements from today’s London meeting of anti-IS nations to bear much relationship to reality on the ground.

  • 30 Dec 2014

    How 2014 unfolded – in tweets

    In Britain, 2014 was the year of the floods, Ukraine saw a revolution, Scotland almost went indy and the deadly Ebola struck west Africa.

  • 8 Nov 2014
    Lindsey Hilsum

    Berlin 1989 – the miracle that blinded us to the truth about revolution

    My generation was blinded by the fall of the Berlin Wall. Bloodless revolutions are few and far between.

  • 22 Sep 2014
    Lindsey Hilsum

    Murdered in the fight to build a democratic Libya

    18-year-old Libyan civil society activist Tawfik Bensaud was killed on Friday, probably by Islamists. His friends are now struggling to keep faith in the democratic state they dream of.

  • 26 Aug 2014
    Lindsey Hilsum

    Neither dawn nor dignity in Libya

    Libya’s rival factions are called Dawn and Dignity. But fighting means it has little chance of achieving the new dawn or the life of dignity the 2011 revolution promised.

  • 22 Aug 2014
    Lindsey Hilsum

    Hamas gunmen execute 18 suspected informers

    Hamas-led gunmen in Gaza execute 18 Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel a day after Israel tracked down and killed three top Hamas commanders.

  • 20 Aug 2014
    Lindsey Hilsum

    James Foley: the danger is this murder will not be the last

    Nothing is happening by chance. If we characterise militants from Islamic State as simply barbaric and savage we are failing to understand their strategy or the extent of the danger they pose.

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