Middle East

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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.
Disturbing encounters in Iran
Did that gesture mean he wanted to slit my throat? Or that Iran was slitting its own?
The walls around the garden
Tara Bahrampour, author of "To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America," talks about balancing between two cultures and glimpsing the crumbling boundaries and lush center of Iranian life.
The feminist queen of the Middle East
World leaders rush to pay tribute to King Hussein, but his widow, Queen Noor, deserves much of the credit for Jordan's transformation from police state to cradle of political freedom.
Airstrikes of mercy
A lifelong pacifist and former Middle East reporter for the Wall Street Journal on why we should bomb Baghdad.
Renewal of vows
Aided by a dying King Hussein, Israel's Netanyahu brings Israel back to where it was in the peace negotiations 18 months ago.
How to turn a criminal to a hero
The U.S. attacks on Osama bin Laden have transformed him into a local hero.
Terrorism experts question U.S. air strikes
Terrorism experts react to Thursday's U.S. air strikes in Afghanistan.
Why Clinton caved in to Israel
In one sign of the cost of to the Lewinsky scandal, Clinton has caved into the Israeli government and abandoned the peace process in the Middle East
Sex, drugs and Armenian vodka
Belly buttons, miniskirts and lascivious behavior in post-revolutionary Iran.
Stumbling toward the brink
Clinton's disintegrating foreign policy should be of much more concern to the White House -- and the country -- than Kenneth Starr's latest chess moves.
Gloves off
Over the next two weeks, President Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo a very public battle of wills over the future of Middle East peace.
Newsreal: Fish or cut bait
If he wants to save his proudest foreign policy accomplishment, President Clinton will have to face down Israel.
Newsreal: Tag team
The great satan and the great sponsor of international terrorism are teaming up to take on the great dictator.
Newsreal: Finish the job? Not in our lifetime
The U.S. can't "go all the way" in Iraq because Saddam Hussein's neighbors need to keep him around.
Paradise found
Tracy Johnston discovers the still unspoiled oasis of Siwa in the Egyptian desert.
Newsreal: The end
Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with President Clinton next Tuesday will likely sink the Middle East peace process altogether.
Christmas in Syria
Louis CasaBianca offers a poignant Christmas tale of two men, a boy and a caged falcon in Damascus, Syria.
Newsreal: Purveyor of catastrophe
Khomeini, Saddam, the killing of the Kurds, war after war in the Middle East -- all brought to you by the U.S. arms trade. Maybe it's time for Washington to rethink its policy.
Newsreal: Shape of things to come
Neither the massacre at Luxor nor the confrontation between the U.S. and Iraq are the real stories in the Middle East. Overshadowing everything is the failing Arab-Israeli peace process and the failure of the Clinton administration to do anything about it.
Armchair warriors for Zion?
How private American money is being used to continue the building of Jewish settlements on Palestinian land even though the U.S. government wants to stop it.
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