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Egyptian couple celebrate their wedding day. (Ahmad Abdel Mageed/AFP/Getty Images)


Match Made in Cairo

Match Made in Cairo

Three women huddle around the couple. Two of the women are likely to be their mothers; the third in this decisive meeting is the matchmaker, the middle-woman or the khatba. She is the one who is brokering the marriage. Anyone wandering through Cairo’s cafes or social...
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A Kurdish sniper looks down on the Syrian city of Kobani on January 30, 2015, a few days after ISIS withdrew from the city.
(AP Photo, File)


Kobani: A Looming Humanitarian Disaster

Kobani: A Looming Humanitarian Disaster

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—After four months of incessant fighting, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has finally been driven out of Kobani, but with much of the Syrian border town in ruins and its population dispersed, the fight for the future of the city has...
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Egyptian riot policemen stand guard behind barbed wire outside the Police Academy where a hearing in the espionage trial of Egypt’s ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi is expected to open on February 16, 2014 in Cairo. (AFP Photo/ Khaled Desouki)


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President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on Wednesday, July 31, 2013, during a ceremony to honor the 2013 NCAA Women’s Basketball Champion team, the University of Connecticut Huskies. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)


Opinion: Rewriting the History of Aiding Terrorism

Opinion: Rewriting the History of Aiding Terrorism

In 1992 I made my first visit to North Carolina, and Chapel Hill clearly stood out as its most charming town. I loved that little American “college town” which wasn’t much different from Europe’s beautiful university cities like Oxford, Leiden, Tubingen and Leuven...
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(FILES) – A file picture taken on February 14, 2005 shows a man fleeing the site of an explosion in Beirut in which Lebanese Premier Rafic Hariri was killed. A decade after former prime minister Rafiq Hariri was assassinated, hopes that the fallout from his death would free Lebanon from Syria’s influence have been dashed […]