Two years in, Syrian refugees in Lebanon are hunkering down

It looks like Syrian refugees may be there to stay in Lebanon. How would the Lebanese state cope with such a reality?

Karl attempts to use an age old riddle to explain the current predicament facing Lebanon with regards to the parliamentary elections.

So most MB candidates got crushed at the university elections in Cairo and most of Egypt. Are there any lessons to be learned from the shift?

Shops are shut, mobs of angry men quickly gather at the slightest provocation. Port Said is on a hair-trigger.

Only one institution commands full respect here – The Egyptian Army. And there is one officer most people seem to especially like: Colonel Ahmed Wasfi, of 2nd Army Division.

This is an interesting idea and saves lots of time for patients. As for a business model, the site is charging doctors an annual listing fee.

A decade of abuses exposes a chronology of torture and other ill treatment of detainees committed by Iraqi security forces and by foreign troops in the wake of the 2003 invasion.