The Egyptian government today announced ambitious plans to 'end humour' by 2018. Modelled after the hugely successful 'End Pov...

In an unprecedented move in modern governance, Saudi Arabia announced today that it will introduce a ban on everything. The announcement h...

Read my latest piece for Syria Deeply  A Human Flood from the Baath State about the rural/urban divide in Syria and its impact on the upris...

Hint: It's not really about the map, which I didn't draw. Source: http://arthurzbygniew.blogspot.co.uk/p/air-bulletin.html The M...

Following my last post The real lesson of Iraq: there are no good interventions.  several people got in touch to remind me of the Vietnamese...

Fate decided that the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, regarded widely as an occasion to reflect on the lessons of that catastrop...

“No one in Syria expected the anti-regime uprising to last this long or be this deadly, but after around 70,000 dead, 1 million refugees, an...