Will Hodges reports on the crisis in Syria and the arguments for and against foreign intervention

Ricky Ghosh finds out what it’s like to be a university student in one of the world’s most ancient centres of learning

Ricky Ghosh reports from Cairo on Egypt’s post-revolutionary stagnation

2011 began with change blowing across the desert plains of the Middle East and North Africa but, as the year draws to a close, parts of the region are as unstable as ever. Finbarr Bermingham charts the progress of the Arab Spring

Almost three weeks after protestors first took to the streets, Egypt is finally free of Hosni Mubarak’s rule. Katie Morley investigates how the economic consequences stretch further than its border