Libyan foreign minister Musa Kusa: a rat jumps ship
Libya’s foreign minister, Musa Kusa, has defected . I suggested this might be in the works in a story last week: "Persuading...
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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.
Is Libya another Iraq?
The West plunges into another brutal Mideast conflict. How long will we have to stay this time?
British imam threatened with death for saying Islam is compatible with theory of evolution
Usama Hasan is an exceptionally brave and good man. That he has been subjected to this kind of bullying is upsetting. I’ve written...
Why do Canadians still vacation in Mexico?
A staggering 35,000 people have been murdered in Mexico since December 2006
Deporting Cindor Reeves "morally questionable": IRB tribunal officer
The tribunal officer assigned by the Immigration and Refugee Board to the case of Cindor Reeves , former brother-in-law of...
Speaking of crazy ...
Iran is threatening to boycott the 2012 Olympic Games. Guess why .
Should the world intervene in Libya’s war?
’There is a risk of escalation’
Gadhafi’s last stand
After more than four decades in power, will he be the next tyrant to topple?
Why the revolts in Egypt and Tunisia are just the beginning
The age of authoritarian strongmen suppressing a population is over