As Syria goes deeper into civil war (and may draw in Turkey) and Egypt's first civilian president, Mohamed Morsi,  calls for the release of  the 1993 World Trade Center  bombing plotter, "blind sheik"  Omar Abdel-Rahman, here's a small story that could be even more dispiriting when thinking about the future of the region.  Well-known Algerian author Boualem Sansel  was …

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