Farewell to Pomegranate

By S.B. | BEIRUT

TWO years ago we launched our Middle East blog, Pomegranate. The time has now come to bid her farewell. The region is as in flux as ever and we will continue to write additional articles to those that appear in the print edition every week. But these pieces will now be posted on the Middle East and Africa page. The aim is to make The Economist's website easier for new visitors to navigate by reducing the number of blogs, many of which have rather esoteric names; it is not immediately obvious, even to hardened Economist fans, that the place to look for Middle East news is a blog called Pomegranate. The new online-only articles will be as wide-ranging as the posts here have been, taking readers from Morocco through Syria and Iraq to Iran, popping via Saudi Arabia and Yemen on the way. But—we hope—they will offer even deeper analysis than before.