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Jeffrey Fleishman, Bureau Chief
Jeffrey Fleishman joined the Times in 2002 as Berlin bureau chief. He has covered wars in Kosovo and Iraq and has traveled extensively through Europe and the Middle East. He is a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and was a 1997 Pulitzer Prize finalist for a story he wrote accompanying 15 Buddhist monks and nuns on their escape trek across the Himalayas and out of Tibet. Before joining the Times, he was a European correspondent based in Rome for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He moved to Cairo in summer 2007. EMAIL
Michael Jackson, in the same storied tradition as Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Barack Obama, was an American icon, a touchstone for a nation revered for the possibility it offers.
The lake known as Ada Ciganlija is a mid-city oasis. It's also a reminder that Serbia remains isolated on a continent that sees the Balkans as unrepentant for wars and crimes past.
After a disputed election and crackdown on protesters, the Iranian president maybe be feted in some anti-U.S. corners, but he faces slights and snubs from other nations.
The 14-year-old girl believed to be the only survivor of a Yemenia jetliner crash off Comoros was thrown from the plane amid darkness, she tells her father.
The airliner, with 153 people aboard, plunged into the Indian Ocean today. Problems with the plane were pointed out two years ago. Crews found one child alive and continued to search for survivors.
Hariri's Western-allied coalition must collaborate with other Lebanese parliamentary groups, including the Shiite militant group Hezbollah's bloc.
Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami says those involved in 'destructive acts' during postelection protests are enemies of God and 'should receive the severest of the punishments.'
Mojtaba Khamenei is being positioned to succeed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but he lacks the stature to overcome any opposition from a key panel, analysts say.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
References to Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi are rife as the protesters and their backers watching and tweeting every move online make their case.
But the eldest daughter of former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Faezeh, was not among those released, Press TV says. Rafsanjani is a key opposition figure.
The Guardian Council questions 3 million votes but says they won't change the outcome. Relatives of opposition figure Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani are briefly detained. Western officials say the death toll could be as high as 100.
Even if presidential contender and relative moderate Mir-Hossein Mousavi were to come to power, Iran's commitment to its nuclear program wouldn't change. But he could ease dialogue with the West.
Shiite Muslim rebels deny kidnapping the two German nurses and South Korean teacher. They were among nine foreigners, including three children, taken captive Friday.
Roxana Saberi's spying conviction could strain attempts by the Obama administration to ease tension with Tehran.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
It used to be that customers at a shop in a Cairo bazaar would forget to pick up the shoes they left off, but now they often wait in their socks for their only pair to be fixed.
COLUMN ONE
A $100 bill stained with blood, shrunken and unwanted, tells the story of wars fought, lives lost and reclaimed, the cost of conflict and the price of moving on.
Hours after an interview with the president is broadcast across the Arab world, special envoy George Mitchell begins a tour of the region.
ISLAM IN A NEW WORLD
Conservative Muslims may find it harder to rally opposition to a U.S. led by a multicultural, charismatic president. He could also inspire an Internet-based revolt.
Islam in a new world
In the Middle East, the devout and the secular are duking it out online. But does one side hear the other?
Islam in a New World
Egyptian Gamal Banna backs women's right to lead prayers and thinks clerics should adapt to modern times.
With taxi fares as much as 80 times higher than normal and other costs rising, Egyptians say they just want the Palestinians to head home.
Islam in a New World
To be the American wife of a Saudi is to forsake familiar freedoms — or enjoy them secretly — in exchange for a secure, family-centered life.
Some analysts say Tehran may feel free to interfere in the Mideast, but a few are relieved that chances of a U.S. attack have dimmed.
COLUMN ONE
Like many in Cairo, Alia Qotb ekes out a meager existence atop a building. But once, many years ago, there was a future.