Tunisians Wake To Their First Free Elections
Tunisians are voting Sunday in the country's first free and democratic election. The small North African nation was the first to overthrow its dictator in a popular movement that soon spread to other...
View ArticleA Foreign Correspondent Reflects On The Arab Spring
For the past year, veteran war correspondent Anthony Shadid has been reporting on the Arab uprisings in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Tunisia. Last March, he was kidnapped and beaten by security...
View ArticleFresh Air Remembers War Reporter Anthony Shadid
New York Times war correspondent Anthony Shadid, a frequent guest on Fresh Air, died Thursday after apparently suffering a fatal asthma attack in Syria, where he was reporting on the political...
View ArticleWill Egypt's Generals Use News About Mubarak To Further Delay Democracy?
Some Egyptians fear the military is going to further "bamboozle the democratic process," NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports. The concern: Generals will cite Mubarak's declining health — or death if...
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