Middle East
Olga Rodríguez: 'Journalists tend to be very individualistic'
On a famed terrace close to Madrid’s Palacio Real (Royal Palace) at nightfall, the 34-year-old Spanish award-winning journalist talks about two of her passions, the Middle East and journalism
middle east, brunch, european media, iraq war, journalism, iraq, spain
Wael Nawara: 'Secular is a word we Egyptians used to use wrongly'
A nocturnal meeting with the second-in-command of the El Ghad ('The Tomorrow') party, Egypt’s main force of liberal opposition to Mubarak’s regime
Middle-East: British students still mobilised
Fighting in the Gaza Strip may be over, but sit-in demonstrations organised via email and Facebook continue in 21 UK universities. Amongst other things, students demand bursaries for Palestinian students. This is a campaign which 'has only just begun'
middle east, university, london, students, protest, society, palestine occupied territory
Turin in the Israel-Palestine crossfire
During the military campaign against Hamas on the Gaza Strip, a wave of Muslim immigrants across Europe, stretching from London, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, Brussels as well as Milan and Rome – protested against Israel’s actions, supporting their Palestinian ‘brothers’. Perspective of the communities in Turin, a twin city of Gaza and Haifa
middle east, gianluca costantini, turin, protest, society, world affairs, palestine occupied territory
Israeli sculptress Nathalie Alony: ‘Palestinians in Gaza should be given something to lose’
The Italy-based artist says her viewpoint on the Middle East is fairly ‘balanced’, but Europeans do not realise what it is like for ‘Israel to be attacked in its sleep and continually threatened with annihilation’
middle east, gaza strip, conflict, tel aviv, israele, culture, world affairs
Cinema: Persepolis hits the UK
Released on 25 April in an English-dubbed version, a review of Franco-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi's Oscar-nominated animation of a girl displaced in Vienna
middle east, democratisation, vienna, art spiegelman, men and women, tehran, religion
Exhibition brings Israel and Palestine 'face to face'
Face2Face is a unique and edgy photography show by French and Swiss friends JR and Marco, They stick the Israeli-Palestinian conflict right under European noses
middle east, switzerland, italy, photogallery, contemporary art, germany, berlin
Nuclear energy: new wave in Europe
Brussels goes far east, caps the CAP and ideologises nuclear energy in the first EU forum - take a bite of the latest news from Brussels
middle east, asia, energy, brussels, euweek, agriculture, news
Lebanon: mirage of peace
After an Al Qaeda video threat aimed at the French and Spaniards on 21 September, Islamist groups in Lebanon are ready to finish with the apparently quietened situation in the 'Middle East's Switzerland'
middle east, terrorism, spain, islamic terrorism, syrian arab republic, lebanon, world affairs
Where Israel and Palestine meet
An astonishing eye-witness account of Israeli-Palestine exchanges at the checkpoints that divide the two peoples, followed by an update on EU-Palestine relations
Saad Hariri: 'impunity in Lebanon is unbearable'
The late prime minister's son speaks to European journalists in Beirut before the UN tribunal came into force on 10 June – the first bringing justice to an individual
Iranian conservatives: 'Unnecessary provocation'
The atmosphere from within Iran is increasingly hostile - president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s nuclear ambitions don't help
middle east, teheran, mahmoud ahmadinejad, islam, iran islamic republic of, economy, world affairs
Interwar Lebanon tightens its belt
In pre-civil war ambience, how are the Lebanese making a living?
middle east, united nations, foreign policy, peacekeeping, baalbek, war, europe
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