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Articles of the author Karim El Gawhary
You go, girl!
Karim El-Gawhary ponders the ultra quick chick that is Iran's She drives the hottest set of wheels in the Islamic Republic. When trains on the circuit in western Teheran, the asphalt is melted by more than the midday sun. With squealing tyres and (...)

07 - 07 - 2005
The right to reintegrate
The new Iraqi administration is struggling to come to terms with the country's past as de-Baathification becomes re-Baathification, writes Karim El-Gawhary "They leave us standing outside in the sun for the whole day," shouts Mohamed, a red-faced (...)

29 - 07 - 2004
Yes they exist: Saudi women at work
Change is in the air for a new generation of Saudi Arabian women. Karim El-Gawhary speaks to some of the women at the forefront of change in the kingdom Change is in the air for a new generation of Saudi Arabian women. Karim El-Gawhary speaks to (...)

24 - 06 - 2004
Gilded cage with bearded guards
Karim El-Gawhary, in Riyadh, gauges the mood in residences of Western foreigners after the attacks in Al-Khobar this week in which 22 people were killed It is gilded, and it is indeed a cage: a compound for foreign residents is located south of the (...)

03 - 06 - 2004
The privatised occupation
Instead of coalition soldiers, private companies are increasingly taking charge of security in Iraq. Karim El-Gawhary reports on mercenaries in modern dress In earlier days, they were simply called mercenaries, and they were usually linked with some (...)

29 - 04 - 2004
The 40-day prisoner
A drive through the streets of Baghdad can turn into a nightmare for an ordinary citizen. Karim Gawhary tells how Mohamed spent 40 days in an American prison in Iraq after being arrested in August while driving through the streets of Baghdad. The (...)

08 - 01 - 2004
Selling success to the Arabs
As the Bechtel school refurbishment programme comes under question, representatives of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad continue to insist on their neo-conservative vision of success in Iraq. Karim El-Gawhary reports from (...)

20 - 11 - 2003
First Saddam, now Uncle Sam
Accused of collaborating with the occupying forces while trying to secure law and order, the Iraqi police find themselves between a rock and a hard place in the new Iraq. Karim El-Gawhary writes from Baghdad Police Chief Ali Hassan is standing at (...)

13 - 11 - 2003
Against the common enemy
As resistance to the American occupation of Iraq escalates, Karim El-Gawhary, in Baghdad, discovers that the boundaries between political factions are blurring The pattern is the same every night. An explosion can be heard before midnight, sometimes (...)

06 - 11 - 2003
Whimsical de-Ba'thification
The exclusion of former Ba'ath Party members from new Iraqi administrative postings may constitute a waste of human resources, discovers Karim El-Gawhary "A blow to the heart of the old system," is how American Civil Administrator Paul Bremer (...)

24 - 07 - 2003
Daggers and roses
The tribes of southern Iraq continue to hold the reigns of power despite efforts by the occupation forces to establish their own version of law and order, writes Karim El-Gawhary in Basra When people in the southern Iraqi city of Basra mention the (...)

17 - 07 - 2003
Never again
Karim El-Gawhary in Baghdad talks to Saddam Hussein's former physician, who later became the victim of the darker sides of his patient A disturbing self-portrait of Iraqi orthopaedist and artist, Dr Ibrahim Abdel-Sattar Al-Basri hangs on the wall of (...)

15 - 05 - 2003
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