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Weekend Reading: Russia in the Levant, the Uprising in Alexandria, and Tunisians Look Back

Reading selections for the weekend of January 27, 2017.

People wave national flags during celebrations marking the sixth anniversary of Tunisia’s 2011 revolution in Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, Tunisia (Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters).

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Ibrahim Hamidi finds parallels between Russian activity in Syria today and French military expansion in the Levant in the 1920s.

Youssef El Chazli recreates the events of the first day of Egypt’s 2011 uprising as they unfolded in Alexandria.

The New Arab looks at how Tunisians remember their uprising, six years later.