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Protesters chant anti-Mursi and anti-Muslim Brotherhood slogans during a demonstration in Tahrir square, in Cairo May 17, 2013. (REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih)
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In this Dec. 13, 2009 file photo, Iraqi laborers work at the Rumaila oil refinery, near the city of Basra. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
The Trouble with the B–B Axis
The fight for Iraqi oil is a story smugly told. Countless observers have remarked on the irony of Western firms’ withdrawal from southern Iraqi oil fields and the flurry of new contracts between Baghdad and Beijing, in what International Energy Agency chief economist...Caption:
Iranian workers weld two gas pipes together at the start of construction on a pipeline to transfer natural gas from Iran to Pakistan, in Chabahar, southeastern Iran, near the Pakistani border, Monday, March 11, 2013. The leaders of Pakistan and Iran on Monday pushed ahead with a pipeline to bring natural gas from Iran despite […]
Problems in the Pipeline
In Pakistan’s feverish election season, politicians in the country are promising an array of solutions to an excruciating crisis: its acute energy shortage. There seems to be a broad national consensus that importing Iranian natural gas via a 1700-mile pipeline could...Caption:
A girl holds a Turkish national flag as she visits the mausoleum of Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, in Ankara. (REUTERS)
Tempered Islamism
Turkey became a true multi-party democracy in 1950, and it has been holding free and fair elections ever since. Not counting the four years spent under military leadership following coups d’état, this means the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has effectively run...Caption:
Syrian Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Zuheir Salem. Source: Tam Hussein
The Brotherhood’s Man in London
Out of all the places to meet Zuheir Salem, the number two man of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood (SMB), a David Brent-style office in Alperton, north London, is probably the least expected. The office of the SMB is so elusive that even the security guard does not know...Caption:
Massoud Barzani, head of the Kurdish regional government, addresses a conference on “recognizing the Kurdish genocide” in Erbil, March 14, 2013 (AFP PHOTO/ ALI AL-SAADI)