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Author: Maha El Dahan

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Bashar al-Assad election posters in Damascus, May 2021 (photo: AFP/Getty Images/Louai Beshara)

Middle East

Arabs ease Assad's isolation as U.S. looks elsewhere

While Bashar al-Assad is still shunned by the West, which blames him for a decade of brutal war in Syria, a shift is under way in the Middle East, where Arab allies of the United States are bringing him in from the cold by reviving economic and diplomatic ties. By Maha El DahanMore

Loyalty and legitimacy: in Syria Bashar al-Assad's staging of the presidential electionNorthern Syria's humanitarian disaster: Syria's IDPs – waiting for death in IdlibSyria 10 years on: Bashar al-Assad’s Pyrrhic victory and the arrogance of power Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey and Egypt: A new dawn for diplomacy in the Middle East?Reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Qatar: A turning point for the whole Middle East?
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  1. Fawzi Boubia's "Mein West-Oestlicher Diwan"

    A tale of disappointed love

  2. Pakistan's economic crisis

    Sovereign debt overload

  3. Turkey election run-off

    Too much politics of fear from Kilicdaroglu?

  4. Philosophy, Arab world trend

    Erich Fromm's advice for troubled times

  5. Turkey elections – the second round

    Why Erdogan will win

  6. Language and language acquisition

    How the brain processes German and Arabic

  1. Sex life in Saudi Arabia

    Lifting the veil

  2. Language and language acquisition

    How the brain processes German and Arabic

  3. Abdul Rahman Munif: "Variations on Night and Day"

    Intrigue and War

  4. Pakistan's economic crisis

    Sovereign debt overload

  5. Germany's Turkish diaspora

    Why Turks in Germany still vote for Erdogan

  6. Turkey elections – the second round

    Why Erdogan will win

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Turtuk is one of the northernmost villages of India where Balti people, an ethnic group of Central Asian descent, have lived for many centuries

The Balti people of Turtuk

Nestling in the Karakoram range in remote Baltistan on the Indo-Pakistan border lies the historic and storied village of Turtuk, once an important stopover on the ancient Silk Road. By Sugato Mukherjee

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