Hard road

In the 1957 film The Battle of Algiers, the Algerian strategist Larbi Ben M'Hidi tells an activist, 'It's hard enough to start a revolution, even harder still to sustain it, and hardest of all to win it. But it is only afterwards, once we've won, that the real difficulties begin.'

The unintentional humour of Pakistan's blasphemy law

...a 17-year-old schoolboy, also in Karachi, had been arrested and charged with blasphemy. His sin? Apparently he had written something objectionable while doing an exam, although nobody can be told what it was he wrote (lest they be charged with committing blasphemy-by-repetition).

-- The Economist

'Suddenly, we are human beings'

A little context: Steve Coll

Europe's responsibilities: Tim Garton-Ash

The Brotherhood: Scott Atran

We, the people: Nicholas Kristof, Roger Cohen

Mordorch

Adam Curtis has a portrait of 'Satan.'