World Affairs: Middle East
In middle east
Iraq's mercenary forces
- By Brittany Peats
- 25 November
After two charred American corpses were hung from a bridge in Fallujah, the shadowy world of government contracted companies came under the media spotlight
Invisible cities
- By Hisham Matar
- 20 November
In myth, Babylon is a place of romance and wonder, but years of dictatorship and war have taken their toll. Hisham Matar on his attempt to visit the ancient metropolis
Thanks for the memories
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 20 November
An unsettling and inspired exploration of how the trauma of war affects the mind
Waltz With Bashir (18)
dir: Ari Folman
A deadly craft
- By Paddy Docherty
- 20 November
Paddy Docherty visits a town on Pakistan's Afghan border where the law of the gun reigns supreme
Dear David...
- By Sean Carey
- 18 November
Sean Carey, who has written extensively on the plight of the Chagos islanders, pens an open letter to UK foreign secretary David Miliband
In with the in-crowd
- By Alec MacGillis
- 13 November
The appointment of a pro-Israel hawk has, to some, undermined Obama's call for a new politics. Or maybe he just doesn't want to seem soft
Feature
Resisting Persecution
The Bahá’í faith supports human rights and interactions with other religions, yet the believers have faced persecution in Iran for decades.
More in middle east
Donald Macintyre's week
- By Donald Macintyre
- 30 October 2008
Israel v Hamas
- By Edward Platt
- 30 October 2008
Exercise your rights
- By John Pilger
- 23 October 2008
The killing fields
- By John Sweeney
- 23 October 2008
Europe's first revolution
- By Tom Holland
- 09 October 2008
Israel's illegal outpost
- By Jonathan Cook
- 25 September 2008
Inside Iran
- By Maziar Bahari
- 11 September 2008
