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Arab family members gather in a communal family space to discuss plans after a truce expires following tribal feuding in Aswan, Egypt, on April 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Sabry Khaled, El Shorouk Newspaper)
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A partial view of Beirut’s suburbs is seen from the Holiday Inn hotel in the Lebanese capital on April 11, 2014. (AFP Photo/Joseph Eid)
Pushed out of Home
A wave of protests has been rocking Lebanon of late, with university students and public sector employees rallying against the high cost of living. Civil defense volunteers taking part in a “Day of revolt” organized by public sector employees last week went as far as...Caption:
Syrian refugees in Antakya look towards home. (Hannah Lucinda Smith)
Little Latakia
It is 11:30 pm on a Tuesday night, and Café Latakia is packed. Rows of men have crammed into the tiny darkened space, eyes fixed on the glowing screen that is the only source of light in the room. It’s a Champions League game—Dortmund against Real Madrid—and most of...Caption:
Photo shows graffiti of a woman with the words “no harassment” in Arabic, taken on June 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
No Security for Egypt’s Women
Last December, Egyptian academic Mariz Tadros wrote that women’s human security was not on anyone’s agenda. According to her research, the security breakdown since the Arab uprisings has led to a dramatic rise in incidents of sexual harassment due to the sense among...Caption:
An Iranian girl runs with a kite during the ancient festival of Sizdeh Bedar, an annual public picnic day on the 13th day of the Iranian new year, west of Tehran, Iran, on April 2, 2014. Sizdeh Bedar, which comes from the Persian words for “thirteen” and “day out,” is a legacy from Iran’s pre-Islamic past that hardliners in the Islamic Republic never managed to erase from calendars. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Same Struggle, New Decade?
These are uncertain times for Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Having been persuaded of Iran’s grave financial situation, he has begrudgingly accepted that revitalizing the economy is also a foreign-policy problem. Only by repairing Iran’s battered...Caption:
In this photo provided by the Turkish Prime Minister’s Office, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan salutes supporters from the balcony of his ruling party headquarters in Ankara, Turkey, early Monday, on March 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Kayhan Ozer, Turkish Prime Minister’s Press Office)