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Egypt's never-ending state of emergency

Laura KasinofMay 15, 2010 07:44Updated May 30, 2010 13:33
CAIRO, Egypt — For a country that's been in a state of emergency for the past 29 years, what's a couple more? That's the stance taken by the country’s ruling party this week, when it extended Egypt’s controversial emergency law until 2012. The law grants the authorities power to suspend basic rights, ban demonstrations and detain individuals indefinitely without charge based on national security concerns.

Egyptian-American detained at Cairo airport with guns and daggers

Jon JensenMay 12, 2010 10:29
Security officials detained an Egyptian-American at Cairo International Airport earlier this afternoon after finding several weapons in his luggage, according to an Associated Press report.  The man arrived on an Egypt Air flight from New York's JFK International Airport.   
 


StreetLife: Karachi — Terror talk

Salman AhmedMay 12, 2010 06:29Updated May 30, 2010 13:33

A touch of Hollywood in Baghdad

Alice FordhamMay 12, 2010 06:35Updated May 30, 2010 13:33
BAGHDAD, Iraq — In a city without cinemas, in a country without movies, the impossible is happening. A tattered red carpet adorns the steps of a battered, gaudy facade in front of the long-defunct Semiramis cinema in Baghdad and cheerfully-dressed journalists, artists and intellectuals bustle past surly soldiers on the way to a movie premiere.

11 hanged in 48 hours — intimidation or fuel for new protests?

Iran GlobalPost CorrespondentMay 10, 2010 12:31
The walls of the notorious Evin Prison in northern Tehran were witness to 11 hangings over a two-day period this weekend: six were hanged on Saturday on terrorism charges, and five on Sunday charged with drug smuggling.

Bringing down the house

May 10, 2010 07:21Updated May 30, 2010 13:32

Opinion: What motivates a terrorist?

May 9, 2010 10:34Updated May 30, 2010 13:32
BOSTON — The American reaction to Faisal Shahzad’s failed attempt at a car bombing in Times Square was: Pakistan again? Why do so many of terrorism’s hydra-heads originate in Pakistan? Pakistan answered that Shahzad had, after all, spent decades in America and had become an American citizen. So was he radicalized solely in Waziristan’s training camps? Or were the seeds of his radicalization planted here in the United States?

Iraq rolls out the red carpet

Alice FordhamMay 12, 2010 06:36Updated May 30, 2010 13:32

The other West Bank

Daniella CheslowMay 19, 2010 07:47Updated May 30, 2010 13:32
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