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ISTANBUL — Egypt is no stranger to criticism from the U.S. and other countries for its violent crackdowns on protests. But as attention turns to protests raging in Fe...
ISTANBUL — Aug. 14, 2013, is a big day in history, a bloody day. It was the largest mass killing in Egypt in recent memory and one of the biggest massacres of demonst...
Sophia Jones is the Middle East correspondent for The WorldPost. She has reported from Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, The West Bank and Gaza. Fo...
ISTANBUL — Just two days before the country’s first direct presidential election, Turkey’s dark horse candidate Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu still feels like he has a fig...
ISTANBUL — At a coffeehouse here in the low-income neighborhood of Fikirtepe, a group of men with greying beards and wrinkled faces sit around a table playing the Tur...
ISTANBUL — Open most U.S. newspapers this week, or click on the main page of news sites, and you’ll likely see headlines detailing the violence in Gaza and Israel �...
ISTANBUL — Women shouldn’t laugh in public. Or at least that’s what Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arınc seems to think. “Where are our girls, who sli...
GAZA CITY — It was late Saturday morning when Aisha, 2, and Fatima, 4, left their bedroom and walked downstairs to their grandmother’s apartment. Minutes after they...
GAZA CITY — Just after sunrise on Sunday, Zeinab, a young Palestinian mother, ran out of her house in Gaza City’s Shijaiyah neighborhood with her husband and barefo...
Sophia Jones is the Middle East correspondent for The WorldPost. She has reported from Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, The West Bank and Gaza. Fo...
JERUSALEM — Undeterred by the relentless rounds of cross-border hostilities between Israel and Hamas, hundreds of French Jewish immigrants gleefully accepted their Is...
A long, caged walkway leading from the last Hamas checkpoint to the Israeli border compound gives the feeling that you’re entering a maximum security prison. As I was...
GAZA CITY — Headless bodies. Screaming children. Entire neighborhoods fleeing on foot. The unmistakable sounds of Hamas rockets and the booms of Israeli strikes. It�...
GAZA CITY — On Tuesday, there was a glimmer of hope when Israel accepted the terms of an Egypt-proposed cease-fire with Hamas. But the Islamist militant group, claimi...
GAZA CITY — For days, Israeli strikes have been pounding northern Gaza, a major launching point for Hamas rockets fired toward Israel. But Saturday night, when Israel...
