Sophia Jones
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CAIRO — An Egyptian court is sending yet another prominent liberal activist to jail for holding an unauthorized protest. Mahienour el-Massry was sentenced to two year...
CAIRO — Over 100 Palestinian 9th graders were able to leave a besieged refugee camp in the Syrian capital on Sunday to do the seemingly impossible: take a school exam...
CAIRO — Friday noon prayers resounded from mosques this morning across Cairo, but it wasn’t noon. It was 1 P.M. Computers and cell phones displayed the wrong times....
CAIRO — In Egypt, sexual harassment and assault can be seen everywhere: in a crowded market, where a man rubs his hand against a veiled woman’s breasts; during a pr...
CAIRO — When Khaled Othman stands in front of his dilapidated house in the Duweiqa neighborhood of the capital’s sprawling Manshiet Nasser slum, he beams with pride...
CAIRO — In a sandy lot in Manshiet Nasser, one of Cairo’s largest slums, barefoot children play amid crumbling 15th-century tombs and mausoleums blackened by burnin...
CAIRO — When the news broke on Twitter Tuesday of the death of one of Egypt’s most respected bloggers, Bassem Sabry, many hoped it was a sick joke. But as friends a...
CAIRO — After months of icy relations between the United States and Egypt, the Obama administration announced on Tuesday that it’s resuming partial military aid to ...
ISTANBUL — There are few things that shock Pinar Ilkkaracan, one of Turkey’s most prominent women activists. For three decades, she has battled what she describes a...
LICE, Turkey — Rezan Zugurli is soft-spoken and unassuming, but she radiates charisma. You would never peg her as a fighter. But a fighter she is. Born into a family ...
ISTANBUL — After Turks went to the polls in a round of contentious local elections on Sunday, power outages forced some voting centers to count votes by candlelight. ...
ISTANBUL — On Sunday night, well before the results of local elections here came in, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stood in front of thousands of che...
ISTANBUL — Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is widely feared in Turkey’s business world. From the country’s billionaires to its bankers, people worry their pol...
ISTANBUL — When Turkey’s embattled Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan blocked Twitter last week, Deniz Oktar, a 29-year-old CEO and co-founder of two tech startups...
ANTAKYA, Turkey — Haj Faraj is fed up. The 36-year-old Syrian rebel commander, who says he leads a small brigade of 50 fighters just over the border, is angry, nearly...
