U.S. Elections 2012 Egypt’s Mursi hopes Obama win boosts ‘friendship’ Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on Wednesday hailed his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama re-election and said he hoped it would strengthen the “friendship” between their two countries. Mursi hoped for a “streng[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Arabs World’
September 30th, 2012 - 8:47 am § in Politics
Democracy From Its Bedrock in Tunisia
Liberals of the world unite: SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia — Bearded and sweaty, they pressed in, their faces shining in the shadow and light beneath billowing tunics hanging for sale outside a mosque. The sun edged higher. A veiled woman hurried past and a boy stepped closer to listen to men complain abou[...]
September 9th, 2012 - 12:10 pm § in Politics
BREAKING NEWS: Egypt and Israel in Joint Military Actions in Sinai
Cairo – Egypt Says Sinai Campaign Coordinated With Israel Cairo – Egypt said Saturday that it has coordinated an ongoing anti-terrorism offensive in the Sinai Peninsula with Israel, and that the campaign… Read More » READMORE: About another Egyptian effort to civilize the Sinai.[...]
August 21st, 2012 - 12:35 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Can Egypt Make an Arab Spring in the Sinai?
Egypt’s Agriculture minister Salah Abdul Momen told the Al-Ahram that his ministry has developed a detailed five-year plan to turn 1 million acres of arid desert in central Sinai into farmland, at a rate of 200,000 acres per year. Another Egyptian official, irrigation minister Muhammad Bahaa A[...]
June 14th, 2012 - 9:38 am § in Politics
BREAKING NEWS: Chaos in Egypt
Egypt’s Parliament Dissolved By Court; Election Ruled Unconstitutional[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Syria getting worse!
Even the normally quiet Chinese news agency is reporting: “Angry crowds” prevent UN observers of carrying out their mission Ghosheh said a team of observers trying to reach al- Haffeh were confronted with angry crowds that surrounded their vehicles, stopping them from proceeding any furt[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Syrian Village Wiped Out
Following reports of a fresh massacre by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, U.N. observers were blocked from reaching the shot by small-arms fire in what U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called an “unspeakable barbarity.” After the latest massacre—in Qubair, a village of 140 [...]
BREAKING NEWS
Spat with Iraq bares Turk plunge into regional power game ANKARA – A bitter rift with Iraq has exposed Turkey’s role in a wider Middle East power struggle, with Ankara acting to protect its stability and prosperity from an Iranian-Iraqi “Shi’ite axis” it fears in the wa[...]
May 15th, 2012 - 9:51 pm § in Politics
Naqba
We survived much death. We defeated forgetfulness and you said to me: We survive, but do not triumph. I said to you: Survival is the prey’s potential triumph over the hunter. Steadfastness is survival and survival is the beginning of existence. We persevered and much blood flowed on the coasts and[...]
The King Of Jordan
Mitt Romney’s panic over the democratic elections in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya is shameful. These newborn democracies may fail, but Americans of all people, should support the chance of the people of these countries ot rule themselves … even when that means making their own mistakes. I[...]