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Assaults on churches by radical Islamists, as well as riots on Oct. 9 between soldiers and mostly Coptic Christian protesters that left 26 people dead, amounted to a warning to the Mideast's largest Christian population that their political future may not be as inclusive as its past.

Parties in Egypt Seek New Weapon Matt Bradley 2011

That's not even mentioning the Mideast's longest festering wound: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Richard Z. Chesnoff: Barack Needs Bill to Make an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Richard Z. Chesnoff 2011

DUBAI — Emirates Telecommunications Corp. offered to buy 46% of Kuwait's Mobile Telecommunications Co. in a deal valued at $11.7 billion that would be one of the Mideast's biggest transactions in recent years.

Etisalat Offers $11.7 Billion for Zain Stake Tim Falconer 2010

But the U.S. should embrace democracy even if it can't configure the outcome, and accept the reality that the Mideast's emerging governments will unlikely be transfigured into Jeffersonian-style secular republics.

Michael Hughes: US on Wrong Side of History in Arab Spring Michael Hughes 2011

The forced retreat from power by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak serves as a humiliating coda to one of the Mideast's most resilient political careers.

An Abrupt End to a Powerful Reign Charles Levinson 2011

The Mideast's biggest airline said it earned 752 million dirhams ($204.9 million) in the six months through September, up from 284 million dirhams ($77.4 million) during the same period a year earlier.

Profit surges at Emirates airline in first half of 2009 2009

This Mideast's new centers of influence are progressive ones.

Sharmine Narwani: The New Middle East Narrative -- Is Washington in or Out? Sharmine Narwani 2011

This Mideast's new centers of influence are progressive ones.

Sharmine Narwani: The New Middle East Narrative -- Is Washington in or Out? Sharmine Narwani 2011

This Mideast's new centers of influence are progressive ones.

Sharmine Narwani: The New Middle East Narrative -- Is Washington in or Out? Sharmine Narwani 2011

With the Mideast's oil tankers headed to China and the U.S., as well as all the Asian and American cargo ships plying these waters, this is the most traveled commercial sea lane in the world.

Peter Winter: The Interwoven Era: The US, China and its New Aircraft Carrier Peter Winter 2011