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The Middle East or Mideast is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa.
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Marie Colvin’s last email to me sought some advice: should she return to Libya or wait for the Syrian visa that the ambassador in London was promising her?I emailed back: “Go to Syria …more at stake there now, or maybe not.
” I stare at that message in horror now.It was to be my last electronic conversation with my fearless, faithful friend, my companion throughout many a Middle Eastern crisis.We had met in Paris in 1986 when she was UPI’s bureau chief. She was bored, she confessed. There was no “story” in France .We last covered the joys of the liberation of Egypt at the room we shared at the Semiramis Hotel overlooking Tahrir Square in February 2011.“Did you ever think you would see this day?” she exclaimed over one too many scotches in our cramped room, littered with home-made Egyptian flags, liberation posters, newspapers in several languages and chargers for cellphones from a dozen different dangerous assignments.Unlike me, who had grown complacent covering eternally passive Egypt,...
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