Category Archives: Middle East

Bahrain protest

As soon as I arrived in Bahrain last Saturday to cover the anti-monarchy protest, the situation got calmed down. Violent crackdown by police and military has stopped and the protest continues peacefully. It may drag long, possibly weeks, until they reach some kind of agreement with the government or the protesters get removed by force....

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Mubarak stepped down

It was like a roller coaster ride in the last two day. On Thursday, president Mubarak firmly announced that he would stay in the office despite enormous expectations by people and media. It was quite disappointing night not only for many Egyptians but also foreign media like us who were waiting to witness the history....

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