Jacqueline Shoen is a London-based freelance writer specializing in the Middle East and North Africa.

Losing the Game

[caption id="attachment_55229704" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="A Tunisian youth joins a crowd under a looming portrait of Mohammed…

Covering Libya

[caption id="attachment_55233295" align="alignnone" width="620"] Sharron Ward [/caption] The detainment last week of New Zealand filmmaker, Sharon…

Sinai Ripe for Invasion

[caption id="attachment_55233586" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Egyptian military trucks loaded with light tanks line up in El-Arish ahead of an…

America’s Dictators

[caption id="attachment_55233649" align="alignnone" width="650"] Robert D. Kaplan[/caption]American journalist, Robert D. Kaplan, recently wrote an…

Overthrow the System

[caption id="attachment_55233808" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A demonstrator shouts slogans during a protest calling for the respect of women's…

The Ashamed American

[caption id="attachment_55233855" align="alignnone" width="620"] President Obama (credit: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)[/caption]Presidential…

Pilgrimage of Peace

[caption id="attachment_55233980" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Posters welcoming Pope Benedict XVI decorate the Christian port city of Jounieh,…

Why I Didn't Vote for Obama

[caption id="attachment_55235336" align="alignnone" width="620"] President Barack Obama, center, casts his 2012 vote during early voting at the…

Quartet for Status Quo

[caption id="attachment_55235479" align="alignnone" width="620"] Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Secretary Clinton, Russian Foreign…

A House Divided

[caption id="attachment_55245285" align="alignnone" width="620"] Palestinians celebrate by waving Fatah and Hamas flags at the square of the Unknown…