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Roula Khalaf is an associate editor and Middle East editor of the Financial Times. She has worked for the FT since 1995, first as North Africa correspondent, then Middle East correspondent and most recently as Middle East editor. Before joining the FT, she was a staff writer for Forbes magazine in New York.
Roula oversees the paper’s coverage of the Middle East region, its various bureaus and the newly launched Middle East edition. She writes regularly on Middle East politics and business. - -
Arab League turns the screw on Assad regime
Syria’s neighbours have opened the possibility of working outside the UN if their latest proposals are again vetoed by Russia and China
Generals can help end Egypt’s deadly pattern
An end to military rule will speed the end of the post-revolution cycle of death and protest, typified by the Port Said football tragedy
Russian veto risks pushing Syria into civil war
The Arab League had hoped an international consensus would push Bashar al-Assad into implementing a peaceful plan
Charity begins at home for Saudi Arabia
The kingdom has made clear that it must deal with its own problems of job-creation and housing before helping the financially strapped west
Middle East: Tumultuous Arab states take centre stage
Roula Khalaf finds the region at the top of agendas far beyond its own borders
Qatar has little to lose in opposing Assad
Doha’s call for the deployment of Arab troops in Syria reflects the fact that its best interests firmly lie in the regime’s removal
League’s fumbling risks letting Assad off hook
Push to isolate the president has been set back by both the mission’s own fumbling and divisions within Syria’s opposition
A generation at last in ferment
The Arab youth have defied clichés and clampdowns to fracture an adamantine order, writes Roula Khalaf
Tunisia must nip Islamist excesses in the bud
The country has enjoyed a relatively smooth post-revolution transition but intimidatory protests in universities require a forceful response
Brotherhood faces Egypt’s awkward new reality
The election winners must deal with economic crisis, people’s high expectations and a military intent on retaining political influence
