Middle East

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  • Asel is gone

    By Flore de Preneuf
  • Appetite for destruction

    Ehud Barak's ultimatum passes and violence continues to mount between Israelis and Palestinians.
  • Asel is gone

    After a popular, peace-loving Israeli Arab teen is shot dead by police, his family and friends -- both Jewish and Arab -- wrestle with what his loss means for Israel.
  • Violence erupts in the Holy Land

    Desperation fuels an ominous round of fighting in the Holy Land. Has the Mideast peace process finally blown apart?
  • The sound of silence

    Heartsick over the bloodshed in Israel, liberal American Jews are so far paralyzed by a conflict in which Palestinians are aggressors as well as victims.
  • Peace without compromise?

    The failure of the Camp David summit could spell war, and soon -- or it could be the best thing for the Middle East peace process.
  • When doves cry

    Barak and Arafat came to Camp David to make history. Instead, they left with nothing.
  • Clinton's lust for legacy

    Jimmy Carter's biographer says that Camp David II could give the president an accomplishment that history will notice before the sexual peccadilloes.
  • Humanitarians or terrorist supporters?

    U.S.-based Muslim and Arab foundations say they're feeding orphaned children. Critics say they're aiding Palestinian extremists.
  • Israel, up against the wall

    The Jewish nation must decide who's in charge: The religion, the state or all of the above.
  • My Beirut hostage crisis

    Taken under the wing of a Lebanese detergent tycoon, our correspondent learns that there's a fine line between hospitality and kidnapping.
  • Hezbollah gets its way

    Why Lebanon isn't euphoric about the impending pullout of Israeli forces.
  • Living in shimmering disequilibrium

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author calls for spiritualizing the environmental movement as Earth endures the greatest mass extinction in 65 million years.
  • Under the veils in Casablanca

    Public life may be dominated by men, but the worlds of house and hammam belong to women.
  • Be your own donkey

    On an innocent walk into the Libyan Desert, our correspondent discovers just how easily fancied adventures can turn into real ones.
  • Pilgrimage and public relations

    Pope John Paul's historic visit to Israel is supposed to spread a message of peace, but Israeli and Palestinian spinmeisters are standing by to read in support of their causes.
  • Uncovering Cairo

    In which our correspondent makes rabbit stew, views an Egyptian film comedy about America and sees the pyramids in a new light.
  • The Palestinian verses

    The teaching of lyrical poetry by a former PLO leader throws Israel's government for a loop.
  • Persian pop vs. the revolution

    Iran's strict laws have created two cultures: The official and the real.
  • Iran on the cusp of change

    Salon's coverage of the elections in Iran, the reform movement and the evolution of culture under the mullahs.
  • Iran votes for change

    Undaunted by jail, dissident journalists have fueled the nation's hunger for reform.
  • Wake up! Is this Cloud-Cuckoo-Land?

    Will we get stuck with a fumbling Bush? Given the evil eye by Hillary? Deafened by the shrill mania of gun controllers? And will Kate Winslet ever get the Oscar Helen Hunt stole from her?
  • Jews for a day

    All six GOP presidential hopefuls schlep their pandering points to the Republican Jewish Coalition's candidates forum.
  • Desperately seeking a legacy

    President Clinton has little time left to improve his standing in history. Could foreign affairs, especially a negotiated peace in the Middle East, offer him a chance for salvation?
  • Edward Said to respond to claims he's not a true Palestinian

    Middle East scholar is accused of misrepresenting his past.
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