When Obama (almost) met Rouhani
Iran and America consider a thaw
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Michael Petrou
Senior writer Michael Petrou has covered conflict across the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. He is the author of ’Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War’, which was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award, and ’Is This Your First War? Travels Through the Post-9/11 Islamic World’, which won it. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford.
The wrinkle in Putin’s facade
Why Alexei Navalny is becoming the Kremlin’s worst nightmare
On two Canadians jailed in Cairo
Michael Petrou explains why it is hard to argue that Canada has abandoned Tarek Loubani and John Greyson
U.S. judge says foundation funding McGill concealed Iranian assets
An American federal judge has ruled a foundation that has given thousands of dollars to Canadian schools and...
Russia-America deal on Syria is a green light for further massacres
Assad’s regime isn’t going to hand over chemical weapon, writes Michael Petrou
’You are history. You are legend.’ Canada’s last Spanish Civil War vet dies
Jules Paivio was last of a group of idealists who chose to fight and die with suffering citizens in faraway country
Why France is willing to go to war
Even on Syria, Paris has its own agenda — and it doesn’t include currying Washington’s favour
About Obama’s Syria address
The commander in chief cast himself as reluctant warrior as he made his case for a military response
Barack Obama’s call to arms that wasn’t
Michael Petrou on false hope and the president’s bluff
Syria exposes hollowness of today’s British Labour Party
Comparing Milibands