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Reporting from Standpoint correspondents in Rome, Kiev, New York, the Caucasus and elsewhere. Writing from the place, by someone who went.

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After Gaddafi: A New Libya Emerges

'More than 40 years later, it is immensely moving to see — and share — the delight of the countless brave Libyans whose revolution is bringing this unspeakable regime to an end'

April 26, 2011

Dispatches·Middle East

From Carthage to Kasserine

In the wake of the Tunisian Revolution, a myriad of nascent political parties are making a shambolic claim for power

March 28, 2011

Dispatches·International

Egypt’s New Dawn Chorus

Following President Mubarak's resignation, is the Muslim Brotherhood the next threat to Egyptian democracy?

February 22, 2011

Dispatches·Middle East

Old-order Collapse

Australia's performance in the Ashes is symptomatic of the newly-prosperous nation's fixation with consumerism

December 16, 2010

Australasia·Dispatches·Sport

A Tale of Love, Bulls and Goats

A tribal wedding in Kenya shows that globalisation can be reconciled with the preservation of time-honoured ways of life

December 16, 2010

Africa·Dispatches

The Surge is Working — So Far

Official voices are unwilling to claim victory, but Nato forces in southern Afghanistan are defeating the Taliban

November 22, 2010

Afghanistan·Dispatches·Military·War on Terror

The Lesson of Oz

"Australian politics is in turmoil of a type and intensity not seen for 70 years"

October 22, 2010

Australasia·Constitutional Affairs·Dispatches·Politics

Xinjiang: Taming China’s Wild West

'The Chinese government is destroying the mud-brick maze of traditional Kashgar to cement control over its rebellious Turkic natives. Uighurs are terrified that by mid-century they will have become the Apache or

September 27, 2010

China·Developing World·Dispatches·Islam

Istanbul: Press Freedom Alla Turca

'When Western journalists note in a casual aside that press freedom has experienced certain setbacks under the AKP, they are failing to do justice to the severity of this calamity and its

August 23, 2010

Dispatches·Israel

Johannesburg: Hard Pressed

'I would like to think that all the politically correct Brits who lined up to condemn me for "juxtapositional racism" might say a word or two about the extinction of media freedom

August 23, 2010

Africa·Dispatches·Social Affairs

ONLINE Only: Ankara’s Proxy

"Why would a country that is both an ally of the United States and Nato as well as an aspiring member of the European Union brazenly declare its solidarity with a terrorist

July 26, 2010

Dispatches·Islam·Israel·Judaism·Middle East

Tajikistan: In Search of the Yeti

'The Tajiks are unnervingly friendly. They take the Islamic injunction of hospitality with grave seriousness. The hungry often sacrifice their only cow for a backpacker with a camera, and the regime has

June 22, 2010

Dispatches·Eastern Europe·Russia

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