By Ibrahim CAIRO — Amid the rise of General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the fall of the first democratically...
Sep 16, 2013
Do Lebanon’s Taif Accords offer lessons for Syrian peace?
BY REESE ERLICH BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian peace has proven illusory, and simply getting the opposing sides to...
Aug 02, 2013
Iranians say US sanctions hit wrong target
BY REESE ERLICH TEHRAN — The election of moderate presidential candidate Hassan Rouhani has raised hopes here of...
Jul 26, 2013
Algiers Accords bind US to non-interference in Iran — and are always forgotten
BY REESE ERLICHTEHRAN — Hassan Rouhani spoke about the Algiers Accords in his first press conference as president...
Jul 26, 2013
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood heads back underground, starts ‘Tahrir 2.0’
CAIRO, Egypt – Under a waxing crescent moon, we pushed through the crowd of Muslim Brotherhood supporters at...
Jul 18, 2013
Iran: Firmly behind the Assad regime
BY REESE ERLICH TEHRAN — Saeed Mohammad Husseini sat behind the counter at a store selling religious CDs...
Jul 16, 2013
Frontier Economy: With a boom on the line, Yangon’s workers fight for rights
YANGON, Myanmar — In the back of the Sanchaung Township courthouse, where bureaucrats clack away on aging typewriters,...
Jul 15, 2013
With Egypt divided about its future, US government emerges as a common foe
CAIRO, Egypt — On the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, rival protest rallies packed...
Jul 12, 2013
Syrian Christians become kidnapping targets, flee to Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A Syrian rebel group took credit for setting off a bomb in a supermarket parking...
Jul 10, 2013
Egypt, it is too early to celebrate
By Ahmed Ateyya CAIRO, Egypt — Toppling Mohamed Morsi was mostly easy, at least compared to his predecessor Hosni Mubarak....
Jul 05, 2013