Tunisia

Updated: Jan. 3, 2012

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Project Bugsplat

By Robert C. Koehler

“The Lakotah had no language for insulting other orders of existence: pest, waste, weed . . .”

But what about “bugsplat”?

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Bahrain: Background

Bahraini army vehicles occupy Pearl Square in Manama, Bahrain (AP)

Bahrain is a small desert island kingdom in the Persian Gulf, an oil-producing nation of about 1 million that serves as a banking hub and as the base for the United States Navy's Fifth Fleet.

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Egypt: Background

Photography by Luca Quagliato

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Hamada Ben-Amor: Tunisian Rapper

In the week before the downfall of the Tunisian president, 30 plain-clothes police officers arrived at the family home of Hamada Ben-Amor in the coastal city of Sfax and arrested him.