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Syrian journalist Bassel Shehadeh was one of more than 500,000 people estimated to have been killed in Syria since 2011.

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

Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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

Data is a corporate currency like no other, and the role of data scientists is increasingly valuable.

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

Asma Assad

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 mural in Cairo’s Tahrir Square of ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his former ministers.

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

Mixed emotions. Hosni Mubarak pictured in Berlin in 2010.

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.

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.

Students protest against the dismissal of the murder case against Hosni Mubarak over the killing of protesters during Egypt's 2011 uprising.

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

The military removed elected President Mohamed Morsi from office in July 2013.

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.

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