Press Review, 13 March 2018
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Explosion Strikes Palestinian Prime Minister's Convoy in Gaza.An explosion struck the convoy of the Palestinian prime minister Tuesday as he was making a rare visit to Gaza, in what his Fatah party called an assassination attempt it blamed on Gaza militants (Bloomberg/AP).
A #MeToo Moment for Egypt? Maybe. Two women with little in common have detonated their way out of the fortress of taboo that surrounds sexual violence in Egypt, where victimized women are routinely forced to accept shame and blame, not justice, writes Mona Eltahawy on the New York Times.
Turkey poised to open a military front in Iraq. It appears that Turkey and Iraq have found further common cause, this time for joint military action against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) (al-Monitor).
How Syria’s Kurds are trying to create a democracy. It’s an unlikely place for a democratic revolution (Vox).