Middle East

Is Second Round Possible?

Election commission officials call for second round of voting, but time, weather, and security are against them.

25 Nov 09

Iraq’s city of singers silenced by edicts and threats against secular music.

25 Nov 09

Many of 800 families moved to preserve ancient site bitter about their transfer and claim they were inadequately compensated.

25 Nov 09

Audio slideshow produced during an IWPR workshop for young Syrian journalists held in Damascus, November 2009.

23 Nov 09

Law and society treat homosexuals as criminals, outcasts or mentally ill.

20 Nov 09

Some officials say Herat frontier checkpoint giving Taleban a backdoor into Afghanistan.

19 Nov 09

Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan has relocated next door to Tajikistan, though analysts doubt it will move back into Central Asia.

18 Nov 09

Locals beaming on and off field, as staging of Asian tournament boosts city’s resurgence.

18 Nov 09

Upriver dams cause influx of salt water that’s destroying crops and killing livestock in once verdant Basra region.

17 Nov 09

Orthodox leader at the centre of argument over whether the church is too involved in public life.

13 Nov 09

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