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Ian Black
Ian Black is the Guardian's Middle East editor. In more than 25 years on the paper he has also been its European editor, diplomatic editor, foreign leader writer and Middle East correspondent
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Vivid re-telling of the experience of the Nakba - a tragedy that did not end with Israel’s war of independence in 1948
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US talking to Russia about reducing fighting in Aleppo after agreeing ‘regime of calm’ deal in Latakia and Eastern Ghouta
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Sectarianism is the hall-mark of the deadly collapse of the Arab nation-state, argues a thought-provoking new book. The Ottomans managed better.
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With at least 27 patients and staff reported dead, UN says urgent aid is needed amid multiple breaches of ceasefire
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Parties are paying lip-service to a ‘political solution’ even as a dysfunctional truce collapses around them
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Five years after the start of the Syrian conflict, a collection of the Guardian’s most powerful reporting from world’s most intractable conflict
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President’s policy of engagement has been vindicated by electorate but there are limits to what he will be able to achieve
Russia and UN discuss new Aleppo truce