Middle East: February 2011 Archives

Wednesday February 16, 2011

February 17 & 20: from Lampedusa, Italy - Kingi, Democratic Republic of Congo - Uganda - Iran via Washington - Urumqi, China

They chased their president into exile, but thousands of Tunisians are fleeing their "revolution" seeking refuge on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa. Photo/Reuters

The aftershocks of Tunisia's uprising. Why the revolution is driving some people out of the country.

In Uganda, the opposition fears the country's strongman will steal this week's election.

Iran is erupting, but it's all just good sketch material for a couple of expat comics living in Washington.

We're in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where former rebels are getting away with murder.

And, the sound of Uyghur music. A minority in China listens to its past, for clues to its future. 

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Wednesday February 2, 2011

February 3 & 6: from Cairo - Southern Sudan - Mexico - London - Kenya

American preacher Sam Childers set up an orphanage in Southern Sudan, then went hunting for the most fearsome of rebel leaders. Photo/Lionsgate Productions

Egypt's temper.  Word from the capital on the cusp of historic change.

Machine Gun Preacher of Sudan; why a reformed biker's waging war on one of Africa's the most feared rebel armies.

Cockeldoodeldoo!  The misplaced love of a Mexican for his cockfighting roosters.

Somalia: a free-fire zone where the streetlights don't work; welcome to the world of Mogadishu's Mayor.

The empire steps back; the BBC reduces foreign-language broadcasting to several key countries.

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• June 2012
  • Wed., 20 – June 21 & 24: the last Dispatches
     
  • Wed., 6 – June 7 & June 10: from Italy - Amsterdam - Cairo - Bosnia - San Agustin, Cuba
     
• May 2012
  • Wed., 23 – May 24 and May 27, 2012: from Florence - Uganda - The Seychelles - Iraq
     
  • Thu., 10 – May 10 & 13, 2012: from Damascus, Syria - Munich, Germany - Sao Paolo, Brazil - Alabama - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Port-au-Prince, Haiti
     
• April 2012
  • Thu., 26 – Yemen: A lesson in insecurity
     
  • Wed., 18 – April 19 & April 22, 2012 - from Mexico - Cuba - Yemen - Peru - Cairo, Egypt
     
  • Wed., 11 – April 12 & April 15, 2012 - from Libya - Ganta, Liberia - Montreal - Paris
     
  • Wed., 4 – April 5 and April 8, 2012 - from Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Kiev, Ukraine - Prato, Italy - Ganta, Liberia - Tel Aviv, Israel
     
• February 2012
  • Wed., 29 – March 1 & 3, 2012 - from Moscow - Jacmel, Haiti - Sanaa, Yemen - Dharamsala, India - Pakistan
     
  • Wed., 8 – February 9 & 12: from Cairo - Kazakhstan - Turkey - India - New York
     
• January 2012
  • Thu., 12 – Jan 12 & 14, 2012: from East Jerusalem - Dublin - India - Democratic Republic of Congo - Beijing
     
• December 2011
  • Thu., 29 – Dec 29 & Jan 1: from Artibonite, Haiti - Brazil - New York - Uganda - Saudi Arabia
     
  • Wed., 7 – December 8 & 11, 2011: from Santiago - Benghazi, Libya - Zimbabwe - Somalia - Boston - Independencia, Peru
     
  • Thu., 1 – Dec 1 & 4, 2011: from, Afghanistan - Egypt - The Philippines - Amsterdam - Colombia
     
• November 2011
  • Thu., 17 – November 17 & 20: from South Africa - Afghanistan - Espiritu Santu, Brazil - Mogadishu, Somalia
     
• October 2011
  • Thu., 6 – October 6, 2011: from Peshawar, Pakistan - Guatemala City - Misrata, Libya - Mendoza, Argentina
     
• September 2011
  • Thu., 29 – September 29, 2011: from, Mumbai, India - Chisinau, Moldova - Loruth, Kenya - Peshawar, Pakistan - Bangladesh
     
  • Wed., 21 – September 22, 2011: from Beni, Congo - Chicago - Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Tripoli - Kenya
     
  • Thu., 15 – September 15, 2011: from Misrata and Janzur, Libya - Washington, D.C. - Beijing - New York - Kenya/South Sudan border
     
• June 2011
  • Mon., 13 – Jerusalem...covering the never-ending story
     
  • Thu., 9 – June 9 & 12: from Cairo - Venezuela - Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Jerusalem - India
     
  • Thu., 2 – June 2 & 5: from Lima, Peru - Den Bosch, The Netherlands - Syria - Rondonia, Brazil - Lombardy, Italy
     
• May 2011
  • Wed., 18 – May 19 & 22: from Kampala, Uganda - Israel - Montebaducco, Italy - Sarajevo, Bosnia - Nanjing, China - Robben Island, South Africa
     
  • Wed., 4 – May 5 & 8 from: Glasgow - Florence - Uljanovsk, Russia - Butare, Rwanda - Delhi
     
• April 2011
  • Wed., 27 – April 28 & May 1: from Coban, Guatemala - Zimbabwe - Benghazi, Libya - Kolkata, India - Belize.
     
  • Thu., 14 – April 14 & 17: from Tokyo - Montreal - London - Kampala, Uganda - Berlin - North Korea
     
  • Wed., 6 – April 7 & 10: from Cairo - Dakar, Senegal - Libya - Liberia - Tijuana, Mexico
     
  • Mon., 4 – Jordan's protests run deep
     
• March 2011
  • Wed., 30 – March 31 & April 3: from Grand Forks, North Dakota - Ukraine - Amman, Jordan - Bunya, Democratic Republic of Congo - Manila, Philippines
     
  • Wed., 23 – March 24 - 27, 2011 from: Noda and Sendai, Japan - Chernobyl - Tunis - Benghazi, Libya - Berlin
     
  • Tue., 22 – The screwy Saudi security syndrome
     
  • Thu., 17 – March 17/20, 2011 Dispatches: from Kabul - Riyadh - Beijing - Douglas, South Africa -Cozumel - India via New York
     
  • Mon., 14 – Addis Ababa...renting the news of revolution
     
  • Thu., 10 – March 10/13, 2011 Dispatches: from Beijing - Mendoza, Argentina - Tripoli - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Punta Allen, Mexico
     
  • Wed., 9 – Oil rules: Saudi democracy runs on vapors
     
  • Wed., 2 – March 3 & 6: from Tunis - London - Orestiada, Greece - Riyadh - Cameroon - Detroit
     
• February 2011
  • Wed., 16 – February 17 & 20: from Lampedusa, Italy - Kingi, Democratic Republic of Congo - Uganda - Iran via Washington - Urumqi, China
     
  • Wed., 2 – February 3 & 6: from Cairo - Southern Sudan - Mexico - London - Kenya
     
• January 2011
  • Thu., 27 – January 27 & 30: from Yunnan Province, China - Pennsylvania - Jerusalem - Glasgow - Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo
     
  • Thu., 20 – January 20 & 23: from Haiti - Dubai - Beijing - New Delhi - Rajasthan, India
     
  • Fri., 7 – Hezbollah and temporary marriage
     
  • Thu., 6 – January 6 & 9: from Juba, Sudan - Brunei - Diego Garcia - Serra da Guia, Brazil - Rohtak, India
     
• December 2010
  • Wed., 1 – December 2 & 5: from Jerusalem - China - Bogota, Colombia - Kabul
     
• November 2010
  • Thu., 18 – November 18 & 21: from Kampala, Uganda - the Thai-Burmese border - Hilversum, Netherlands - Beirut, Lebanon - Dakar, Senegal - Chennai, India - Nanoori, Ghana
     
  • Thu., 11 – November 11 & 14, 2010: from Cambodia, New Delhi, Mali, Israel
     
• October 2010
  • Thu., 28 – October 28 & 31, 2010: from Rio de Janeiro - Dublin - Voss, Norway - Huntsville, Alabama - London
     
  • Mon., 25 – Maalula, Syria... meeting Chavez on the road here
     
  • Thu., 14 – October 14 & 17, 2010: from Miami - Cuba - Arizona - Tripoli, Lebanon - Berlin - La Paz, Bolivia
     
  • Thu., 7 – October 7 & 10, 2010 - from Port-au-Prince - Rio de Janeiro - Pakistan - New York - Kabul
     
• September 2010
  • Thu., 30 – September 30 & October 3, 2010: from Paris - New York - Afghanistan - Chiapas - Culver City, CA
     
  • Thu., 23 – September 23 & 26, 2010: from Pakistan - Moscow - Johannesburg - India - Damascus
     
  • Thu., 9 – September 9 & 12 - from Gudvangen, Norway - Oakland, CA - Chelsetoon, Afghanistan - Mexico City - Oklahoma
     
• August 2010
  • Thu., 26 – August 26 & 29, 2010 from: Cairo - Lusaka, Zambia - Burundi - New York
     
  • Thu., 5 – August 5 & 8: from Dogon country, Mali - Israel - San Salvador - Postville, Iowa
     
• July 2010
  • Wed., 21 – July 22 & 25: from Beirut - France - Siberia - Mumbai
     
  • Thu., 8 – July 8 & 11: from Washington - Sierras de Rocha, Uruguay - Yankassa, Sierra Leone - Montreal - Kabul
     
  • Thu., 1 – July 1 & 8: from Gobi Desert, Mongolia - Tajikistan - London - Nicaragua - Damascus
     
• June 2010
  • Thu., 17 – June 17 & 20: from Los Angeles - Kabul - Sochi, Russia - Port-au-Prince - Jerusalem
     
  • Thu., 10 – June 10 & 13: from Johannesburg - Zwedru - Assam - Mumbai - New Orleans
     
• May 2010
  • Thu., 27 – May 27 & 30: from Harare - Kabul - New York - Nanjing
     
  • Thu., 13 – May 13 & 16: from Skeleton Canyon - London - Chicomuselo - Nanjie
     
• March 2010
  • Thu., 18 – March 18 & 21: from Bhutan - Iraq - Ethiopia - Toronto
     
  • Thu., 11 – March 11 & 14: from Nairobi - Gikongoro, Rwanda - Kabul - London
     
• February 2010
  • Thu., 25 – February 25 & 28: from Los Angeles - Harare - Dushanbe - London - Kandahar
     
  • Thu., 18 – February 18 & 21: from Zurich - Kabul - Cambodia - London
     
• January 2010
  • Thu., 14 – January 14 & 17: from Sana'a, Yemen - Beirut - Freetown, Sierra Leone - Montreal
     
• December 2009
  • Thu., 31 – December 31 & January 2: from Jakarta - Washington D.C. - Diego Garcia - London
     
  • Thu., 3 – December 3 & 6: from Cairo - Gobi Desert, Mongolia - Quetta, Pakistan - Baghdad
     
• November 2009
  • Thu., 19 – November 19 & 22: from Washington - Peje, Kosovo - Mumbai - New York
     
• October 2009
  • Thu., 15 – October 15 & 18: from San Juan Batista, California - Kabul - New York - London - Cape Town - Port-au-Prince
     
  • Thu., 1 – October 1 & 4: from Kandahar - Mostar, Bosnia - Damascus
     
• September 2009
  • Thu., 24 – September 24 & 27: from Salaya, India - Kabul - New York - Bandiagara, Mali
     
  • Thu., 17 – September 17 & 20: from Kabul - Beijing - Ottawa - New York - Paris - Beirut - Kelabit, Borneo
     
  • Thu., 10 – September 10 & 13: from San Jose, Costa Rica - Brunei - Sierras de Rocha, Uruguay - New York - Olwein, Iowa - Tegucigalpa, Honduras - New Delhi