The Arab League

• Will they ever agree?
  

  An Arab summit in a Libyan city exposes some enduring stark divisions but achieves little (2)

• • • Little agreement at the last Arab League summit (Apr 2009)
    (20)
  • • From the archive: A lack of unity in the Arab world (Feb 1988)

Arab women's rights

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  Some say they don't want them

  The battle for Arab women's rights goes on, though men often object—and sometimes women too (28)

• • • A debate about fashion in Qatar (Jan 2010)
    (27)
  • • Arab women are beginning to find a voice (Jun 2004)

Saudi Arabia

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  The struggle for Saudi Arabia's soul

  Two books about the desert kingdom draw surprising conclusions about the tensions between conservatives and modernists, clerics and terrorists (3)

• • • Mixing sexes in Saudi Arabia (Jan 2010)
    (23)
  • • Is Saudi Arabia tiptoeing towards reform? (Feb 2009)
    (21)

Iraq's election

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  Allawi triumphant

  Iyad Allawi wins most seats in Iraq, but long wrangling will decide who wins (35)

• • • Defiant Iraqis have voted
    (23)
  • • No promised land at the end of all this
    (59)
  • • Leader: Give everyone a voice
    (7)
  • • Toby Dodge on why violence and corruption will continue to blight Iraq

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• Israel's disputatious Avigdor Lieberman

  Can the coalition hold together?

  A religious issue is threatening the government’s cohesion (32)

• Jerusalem

  A city that should be shared

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