From the Book - First edition: April 2016.
Tunisia : Avenue Bourguiba on election day ; Blogging the Arab Spring ; The bullshit revolution? ; Nidaa
the "call for Tunis" party ; Carthage: "to retrace one's steps to the upper air"
Bizerte: last battle of colonialism ; We are living in the same house ; Ennahda
the Islamic "renaissance" party
The fourth holiest city in Islam ; Complementary or equal? ; He said, she said: how to write a constitution ; From Tunisia to Turkey
Turkey : The view from Galata bridge ; Hugging trees in Gezi park and Taksim square ; Courtyards of Topkapı palace ; A neighborhood walk through Beyoǧlu ; 17.2 kilometers per hour up Sapphire tower ; Hürriyet Daily News ; Gallipoli's Johnnies and Mehmets ; Blood is red, Greek and Turk ; Ataturk's mausoleum ; From Ataturk to Erdoǧan ; The party of Erdoǧan ; The opposition ; AK party women ; Anatolian tigers, refugee havens ; From Turkey to Iraq
Iraq : An aspirational airport ; Daily life in Erbil ; The other Iraq, the next Dubai ; The oldest inhabited place in the world ; The smell of rotten apples ; The call for help ; Ideology of a cancerous quasi-state ; Fighting ISIS ; A three-way pull on the Iraqi state ; A bold restructuring ; Defending the nation-state ; Open for business ; Iraq's leading hotel ; From Iraq to Jordan
Jordan : The view from Amman's citadel ; Reform, not regime change, not revolution ; Democracy Jordanian-style ; The case for pluralism ; A revolution in entrepreneurship ; "The old men came out again and took our victory" ; Online and different from our parents ; Crusaders and Jihadis ; The bible and the border ; Still in the camps ; At the intersection of fifth avenue and the Champs-Élysées ; From Jordan to Qatar
Qatar : Skyscrapers near the corniche ; Robots and camel racing ; Another golden age of science in the Middle East? ; A Qatari poet on the challenge of change ; A ladies-only wedding party ; Near the dream hypermarket ; Freedom and Shariah ; Al Jazeera: the opinion and the other opinion ; From Qatar to Egypt
Egypt : Lonely pyramids ; walking Tahrir square ; Three a.m. at the Yacoubian building ; A four-finger symbol of solidarity ; Media in the margin ; How three governments messed up ; "Welcome to safe Egypt and its secure canal" ; New rules of the game ; Al-Azhar waking up ; "As far as my eyes could see , there were only women" ; Mary and Jesus slept here ; Life in cemeteries and garbage dumps ; Abandoning the troubles of Old Cairo ; Self-correcting institutions ; The google guy ; From Egypt onward.
