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The United Arab Emirates

Getting twitchy about democracy

The Arab awakening is making one of the richest of the Gulf states nervous

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Fiction from Lebanon

Wet dreams

A banned Arabic novel by Elias Khoury is full of elusive but mesmerising prose

An Israeli film festival

Uncomfortable viewing

A film festival in Sderot, near Gaza, highlights Palestinian suffering, to the discomfort of some attending

Israeli counterterrorism

Tactics over strategy

A new book examines Israel's policy of confronting force with force when it comes to terrorism

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