Tag: middle-east
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What is a Police State?
I am walking from Tahrir Square to my favourite cafe in Cairo called الحرية or Freedom. After no more than a few steps I look up and stand face to face with a police officer in full riot gear. Next to him are two more policemen, rifles in hand and behind them towers an armoured…
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The Untold Consequences of War
No SignalI am sitting in a café close to As-Salt drinking mint tea and looking across the Jordan Valley and the mountain range beyond where the sun is slowly setting. It is a remarkable sight, and one I wish to return to, so I take out my phone to save the café. Trying to find…
