Middle east diaries Published: February 25 2002 13:33GMT | Last Updated: March 7 2002 13:11GMT
The Mood in the Middle East
With contributions from: Roula Khalaf, the FT's Middle East editor; James Drummond and Heba Saleh in Cairo; Guy Dinmore in Tehran; Gareth Smyth in Beirut, and Harvey Morris and Avi Machlis in Jerusalem.
The events of September 11th and the subsequent war in Afghanistan put immense pressure on existing tensions in the region. In this series FT writers record the responses of the people - Muslims, Jews, Christians and expatriates - in the region, to try and gauge the mood in the Middle East.
