Weekend Reading: Russia in the Levant, the Uprising in Alexandria, and Tunisians Look Back
Ibrahim Hamidi finds parallels between Russian activity in Syria today and French military expansion in the Levant in the 1920s.
Youssef El Chazli recreates the events of the first day of Egypt’s 2011 uprising as they unfolded in Alexandria.
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The New Arab looks at how Tunisians remember their uprising, six years later.
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