2011 did not witness the first Egyptian revolution. After all, Egypt's Tahrir ("Liberation") Square earned its name from some other struggle. For Egypt, this liberation came in the 1920s when men, women, Muslims, Christians, the young and the old from across the land rallied to drive the British out of...

I've been glued to Al-Jazeera for the past eight days monitoring the protests in Egypt. I turn it on in the morning before breakfast and check the live feed at night before I hit the sack. What started as a personal demonstration of one man's quest to achieve...

The summer of 2008 brought the usual blistering heat to Pakistan. President Pervez Musharraf, an army general who had become president through a coup d'etat eight years earlier, led by edict in a country little used to democracy and often subject to the heavy yet firm hand of military rule....

In 1960, a billion people made up the industrialized world while double the number, two billion, comprised the developing world. The economic gap between these two "worlds" was quite large. For instance, people in the industrialized world were educated, healthy and well-off and as Professor Hans Rosling notes,...

Big, burly, ferociously committed and said to resemble an "American football coach more than a health worker," Todd Shea is a surprising contradiction of a man who still seems to belong in rural northwest Pakistan.

Beloved by the locals since his arrival in 2005, Todd's good-natured persistence underlies...