Notes from different corners of the world.

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• "A Broken Britain" England's novelists and filmmakers saw the riots coming. Why didn't its politicians?
  Tom Rachman Aug. 10, 2011
  
• Burning Down the House "Social exclusion" is a real problem, but it doesn't excuse the looting and lawlessness on the streets of London.
  Michael Weiss Aug. 9, 2011
  
• This Is What Famine Looks Like Scenes from the Dadaab refugee camp.
  Peter Biro Aug. 2, 2011
  
• Kazakhstan Rising The dangers of Kazakhstan's high-risk development strategy.
  Joshua Kucera Aug. 1, 2011
  
• Egypt's Fundamentalist Summer Could an ultraconservative religious ideology be the biggest beneficiary of the Egyptian revolution?
  Sarah A. Topol July 14, 2011
  
• Dispatches From Gaza Gaza's rocket men shoot for the moon.
  Sharon Weinberger July 7, 2011
  
• Fighting AIDS in Tanzania How do you convince sick people to take modern medicines when they don't believe they have a disease?
  Sonia Smith June 8, 2011
  
• So Much for the Peaceful Division of Sudan The violence in Abyei shows that if Khartoum is determined to cause trouble, there's very little U.N. peacekeepers can do about it.
  Rebecca Hamilton June 1, 2011
  
• Fighting the Taliban One Irrigation Project at a Time What's different when the guys supervising development projects are former Green Berets?
  Maura R. O'Connor May 31, 2011
  
• A Brief Tour of the Cambodian Sex Industry Is buying sex a better way to help Cambodian women than buying a T-shirt?
  Ken Silverstein May 19, 2011
  
• Badge Wars The woman who controls access to Baghdad's Green Zone is one of the most powerful Americans in Iraq.
  Jackie Spinner May 10, 2011
  
• Happy Mutter's Day The Berlin neighborhood that seemed to defy Germany's grim demographic trend.
  Sarah Wildman May 6, 2011
  
• "We're Still Going To Be Here" Osama Bin Laden is dead, but for U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, the war continues.
  Maura R. O'Connor May 3, 2011
  
• There Was a House in New Orleans. Now There Isn't. Treme creator David Simon's strange spat with Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
  Justin Vogt April 22, 2011
  
• Paying for Peace Faced with protests, Oman offered economic sweeteners. Will it work?
  Jackie Spinner March 29, 2011
  
• Courage Under Fire It was a quiet day in Afghanistan … until the explosion.
  Alex Berenson March 18, 2011
  
• Breaking Up With Iraq Are American liberals blind to the positive achievements of the war in Iraq?
  Whitney Terrell March 15, 2011
  
• Forget Me Not How to win the U.S. memory championship.
  Joshua Foer March 8, 2011
  
• Sudan Cracks Up Oil may be the last thing South Sudan needs right now.
  Dan Morrison March 1, 2011
  
• Iraqi Kurdistan, Vacation Paradise? Sure, it's scenic and relatively safe, but tourist destinations need public restrooms and ATMs.
  Jackie Spinner Feb. 25, 2011
  
• Bahrain's Protesters Hope There Is Safety in Numbers Now their biggest worry is that the international media will forget them as Libya takes center stage.
  Sarah A. Topol Feb. 22, 2011
  
• Bullet Holes in the Bumper, Threats in the Mail The hard lives of the Pakistani truck drivers who ferry supplies and fuel to U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
  Sarah A. Topol Feb. 22, 2011
  
• Elsewhere in the Arabian Gulf A peaceful anti-corruption protest in Oman.
  Jackie Spinner Feb. 18, 2011
  
• Where Egypt Made History A report from Tahrir Square on the day Mubarak resigned.
  Sarah A. Topol Feb. 11, 2011
  
• Rage Against the Regime A report from Cairo as jubilation turns to disappointment and anger.
  Sarah A. Topol Feb. 11, 2011
  
• Gay Marriage With Chinese Characteristics A visit to a Shanghai fake-marriage market, where lesbians and gay men meet to find a husband or wife.
  Nicola Davison Feb. 9, 2011
  
• Sibling Rivalries As the protests in Cairo continue, the Muslim Brotherhood faces internal tension and a generational divide.
  Sarah A. Topol Feb. 8, 2011
  
• Voicing Opposition Not even Cairo's protesters agree on who speaks for Cairo's protesters.
  Sarah A. Topol Feb. 7, 2011
  
• Revolutionary Logistics Where do the thousands of people gathered in Tahrir Square go to the bathroom?
  Sarah A. Topol Feb. 5, 2011
  
• Egypt's Protesters Puzzle Over Obama's Response A dispatch from Cairo's Tahrir Square.
  Sarah A. Topol Feb. 4, 2011
  
• Tahrir Square Is a Battleground Despite the violence, anti-Mubarak protesters are still convinced they will prevail.
  Sarah A. Topol Feb. 3, 2011
  
• Thousands of Men and No Groping! Egypt's protests were a safe space for women. Until things turned violent.
  Sarah A. Topol Feb. 2, 2011
  
• "We Are Making Our Future" A dispatch from the massive protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
  Sarah A. Topol Feb. 1, 2011
  
• Rumors, Shortages, and Stress A dispatch from the streets of Cairo.
  Sarah A. Topol Jan. 31, 2011
  
• Hanni's Story A chance meeting with a Holocaust survivor at a remarkable exhibition in Berlin.
  Sarah Wildman Jan. 27, 2011
  
• Do Russians Have a Death Wish? Authorities were warned of the attack on Domodedovo Airport a week ago, but they didn't beef up security.
  Masha Gessen Jan. 24, 2011
  
• In Pakistan, the Shooter Is the Hero The depressing public reaction to the assassination of Pakistani politician Salman Taseer.
  Sarah A. Topol Jan. 10, 2011
  
• South Sudan Throws Off the Weight of the North Their new country will be poor and underdeveloped, but as they vote for separation this week, that doesn't matter to southerners.
  Dan Morrison Jan. 10, 2011
  
• Does International Aid Keep Haiti Poor? Do you want to make a U.N. worker swear? Ask her about the "cluster system.
  Maura R. O'Connor Jan. 4, 2011
  
• All Is Calm: New Year's Eve in Baghdad How one U.S. soldier in Iraq spent the last day of 2010.
  Jackie Spinner Jan. 1, 2011