This Month
Bassel was right about the Assads. It couldn’t save him
The 27-year-old had a Fulbright Scholarship and the future was bright. This is the story of one man’s pursuit of freedom for Syria.
- Andrew Burke
November 2023
Hidden dragon: Inside the mind of Xi Jinping
In Xi’s worldview, the West has sought to subvert the Chinese Communist Party’s power at home and contain the country’s influence abroad.
- Chris Buckley
December 2021
Nearly 50,000 Facebook users likely targets of private surveillance
Facebook is notifying nearly 50,000 users in more than 100 countries that they may have been targets of hacking attempts by surveillance companies.
- Craig Timberg
March 2021
Banker, warlord, princess: the many lives of Asma Assad
Here’s how a girl from west London became the unlikely winner of Syria’s war.
- Nicolas Pelham
February 2021
A decade after Arab Spring, autocrats still rule the Middle East
The popular uprisings of 2011 mostly failed, but they gave the region a taste for democracy that continues to whet an appetite for change.
- Ben Hubbard and David D. Kirkpatrick
February 2020
Mubarak's death elicits mixed emotions in Egypt
Across Egypt, emotions ran the gamut in the wake of the death of 91-year-old Mubarak in a Cairo hospital after surgery.
- Sudarsan Raghavan and Heba Farouk Mahfouz
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak dead at 91
Egypt's autocratic leader ruled for nearly 30 years before being ousted in the 2011 "Arab Spring" of pro-democracy protests.
- Opinion
- Protests
Egyptians are no better off than before the Arab Spring
Despite improved macroeconomic indicators, the demands for 'bread, freedom and social justice' remain unfulfilled.
- Timothy Kaldas
June 2019
Former Egyptian president Morsi collapses, dies during trial
Reports from Egypt say that Mohammed Morsi blacked out during a court session at his trial for espionage.