Caryle Murphy

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On His Own in Anbar

The misery index for Iraq’s long-suffering citizens took a quantum leap upwards when Al-Qaeda-linked fighters overran Ramadi and Fallujah last week, essentially guaranteeing new levels of sectarian conflict as forces of the Shi’ite-dominated government move in to retake the Sunni-majority cities in

The Only Way is Up

From Kuwait City to Sana’a, from Jeddah to Manama, women on the Arabian Peninsula are on the move, and the coming year is likely to bring them increased opportunities, be it in the job market, the government or the private sector. These improvements are due less to the ‘Arab Awakening’ (though that