Middle East

Libyans don’t want U.S. military intervention

March 1, 2011 By Susan Webb

U.S. warhawks McCain and Lieberman are pressing for military action on Libya, but many others oppose it, including Libyans themselves.

Poem of the week: Nizar Qabbani’s “The Old World is Dead”

February 24, 2011 By John Case

This unnamed verse, written in 1970, seems as if it could have been written yesterday in half a dozen nations - and in some U.S. states as well.

Libya’s Gaddafi wages bloody war against protesters

February 23, 2011 By Susan Webb

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is waging a bloody war against his own people, drawing international condemnation - but some warn he is a "crafty survivalist."

Security council tells Gaddafi to stop the killing

February 22, 2011 By Bill Benfield

Western nations urged the UN Security Council today to demand an immediate end to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's crackdown on civilian protesters and strongly condemned the violence.

Egypt’s revolution: diary of an “intellectual guerilla”

February 16, 2011 By Nadia E. El-Shazly

Exclusive, from Alexandria, Egypt: For the sake of my grandchildren and their generation, I write my impressions about this wondrous event, how it developed, its highlights and its climax.