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By Nima Khorrami Yemen is a multifaceted country with diverse ethnicities, cultures, and religious affiliations where anti-Western sentime...

By Christopher Swift On February 2, Yemeni President Ali Abdulla Saleh stunned Western observers by announcing that he would not see...

By Guy Burton The events in Egypt – the Arab world’s largest country – are having reverberations across the Middle East. The reasons for t...

By Guy Burton It has been hard to keep up with the current protests in Egypt and what the eventual outcome might be. Indeed, only a few ...