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• Why thuggery cuts both ways in Egypt

  February 2, 2012 1:20 pm 1 Comment

  If it wasn't for a hard core of violent youths, many of them football fans, manning the barricades and taking on the police a year ago, would Egypt's revolution have gone as far as it has?

• Video journalists leading a Syrian media revolution

  February 1, 2012 6:08 pm No Comments

  A band of brand new, out-of-nowhere, self-styled TV news reporters has sprung up in besieged Syrian cities. Their sudden emergence is a startling new phenomenon of the 11-month-long Syrian revolt. It is nothing short of a media revolution.

• Gene Sharp – a frail man with powerful ideas

  January 31, 2012 4:46 pm 3 Comments

  Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum interviews Professor Gene Sharp who says anti-government protesters in Syria who pick up arms are suicidal.

• Syrian defector reveals the cost of the conflict

  January 27, 2012 8:11 pm 1 Comment

  A defector from the Syrian MOD tells Channel 4 News that the country's spending on defence has surged since the uprising - and alleges that the answer could be turning to Iran for financial help.

• Engineers or Soldiers? Iran and Syria

  4:54 pm 3 Comments

  Chjannel 4 News International Editor Lindlsey Hilsum blogs on Youtube footage that appears to prove that Iran is sending Revolutionary Guards to fight in Syria.

• The extremes of an Afghan winter

  8:17 am No Comments

  Arriving in Kabul's homely - if beaten-up - airport after Dubai is always something of a contrast. Never more so in my experience than this morning. The Hindu Kush mountains brilliant in deep mid-winter snows. But not just the Kush. The Afghan capital gleams under a foot or so and this morning's temperature dipped to minus 12.

• Imran Khan: saying what Pakistan wants to hear

  January 26, 2012 8:36 pm No Comments

  John Sparks on his meeting with Imran Khan, whose political star is rising despite his party currently having no seats in Pakistan's parliament.

• Not such a Happy New Year

  1:48 pm No Comments

  Xin Nian Kuaile! Gong Xi Fa Cai! Happy New Year! Congratulations and Prosperity! It's Chinese New Year, and I've been practicing my greetings in Chinese. But the Year of the Dragon has not started well in the Tibetan parts of China.

• A pilgrimage to the British Museum

  January 25, 2012 9:41 pm No Comments

  The British Museum director - Britain's foremost cultural ambassador - has nimbly walked through another political minefield to bring Islam's holiest site to this revered corner of Bloomsbury in London.