Middle East

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  • 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.
  • SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal

    There was less -- and more -- to Mother Teresa than met the eye.
  • The roots of peace

    Break the Bosnia-Iran Connection
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