Troubled times for 'peaceful' Jordan amid a volatile Middle East
When protests on a scale of the Arab spring that rocked the Middle East in 2011 swept Jordan this month, alarm bells rang loudly across the region.
When protests on a scale of the Arab spring that rocked the Middle East in 2011 swept Jordan this month, alarm bells rang loudly across the region.
On the drive north up Lebanon’s Mediterranean coastal road from the capital Beirut the rash of billboards tell a story.
Ortega Diaz was a supporter of late president Hugo Chavez,
Late at night in a bleak, deserted office in the African darkness three decades ago, a young black union leader sought help from this white foreign correspondent.
Demure, veiled and black-clad women slip quietly to the toilet as an aircraft leaves Saudi Arabian airspace. They return to their seats in glamorous haute couture dresses and expensive jewellery.
WHEN Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei looks west from his Tehran residence, he can be forgiven a wry smile.
As a dusty wind blows across the arid Jordanian desert 50 miles south of the Syrian border, row upon row of white metal houses in neat lines emerge from the haze. Women dressed in black hijabs, some with niqab veils, carry water from shared taps or shopping from the few stores back to their new homes.
IN the elegant oak-panelled splendour of the Calcutta Club, thoughts turn back to Indian independence.
THE source of death and destruction in South Asia frames neatly in the windscreen of a Boeing 777 as it flies at 37,000ft over India and Bangladesh.
WHEN Aung San Suu Kyi addressed half a million people at Yangon’s iconic Shwedagon Pagoda three decades ago, her defiant call for democracy in military-ruled Myanmar marked her for greatness.
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