World Affairs: Middle East
In middle east
Diehard teen republicans
- By Matt Kennard
- 01 September
Matt Kennard reports from the Republican convention where he's already met with Republicans young and old and George W Bush's brain
Besieged by bad smells
- By Mohammed Omer
- 28 August
The breakdown of Gaza's overworked sewage system threatens to spill over into an international ecological disaster
A poet for the people
- By Jonathan Cook
- 21 August
Mahmoud Darwish's death highlights the fragmentation of Palestinian society
Weird science
- By Ziauddin Sardar
- 21 August
According to some Muslim scholars, everything from genetics to robotics and space travel is described in the Quran. What nonsense
Wrongs and rights
- By Alex Renton
- 21 August
Palestine Inside Out: an Everyday Occupation
Saree Makdisi
W W Norton, 320pp, £15.99
A state called Kurdistan?
- By David Romano
- 20 August
By comparison with the rest of Iraq, the country's Kurdish region has thrived since Saddam's overthrow in 2003. But a viable independent state could realistically still be decades away
Feature
Songs of freedom
Paul Evans on why music poses a threat to tyrants and overbearing governments
More in middle east
The power of one
- By Ben White
- 07 August 2008
Changing man
- By Rachel Aspden
- 31 July 2008
Outrageous fortune
- By Rachel Cooke
- 31 July 2008
Israel's war by water
- By Ron Taylor
- 24 July 2008
Less Demos, more lilo
- By Catherine Fieschi
- 17 July 2008
Lessons we fail to learn
- By Brian Jones
- 17 July 2008
Eye of the storm
- By Simon Akam
- 17 July 2008
