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A poster of ousted President Mohammed Morsi hangs on the barbed wire at the Republican Guard building in Nasr City, (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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File photo shows a fighter from Jabhat al-Nusra in front of a burning vehicle at their base in Raqqa. (REUTERS/Hamid Khatib/File)
Blowing up the Al-Nusra Front
In the past two years, Western media coverage has focused on the growing popularity of Salafist jihadi groups like the Al-Nusra Front (Jabhat Al-Nusra) in Syria. These groups have become both an argument to intervene militarily, as well as a reason to stay out. While...Caption:
In this undated image made from video released by the producers of “Awel el Kheit,” or “the Thread,” which aired in May 2013 on the private TV station ONTV, Waleed Hammad walks in a busy shopping district in Cairo, Egypt, dressed as a woman, as a hidden camera crew films him for an investigative story on sexual harassment. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Awel el Kheit)
Choose Your Words Wisely
Actor Waleed Hammad dressed up as a woman and walked Egypt’s streets for an investigative television report into what it feels like to be sexually harassed. The program aired earlier this month, and perhaps best exemplifies one of the major achievements of the January...Caption:
Rebels fighters prepare to fire a recoilless rifle against an adjacent Syrian government-held building during fighting in the Hawiqah neighbourhood of the eastern Syrian town of Deir Ezzor.(AFP)