Category: Arab World

Troubled Waters Under the Tigris and Euphrates Bridges

August 9, 2015August 9, 2015 Abdennour Toumi No Comments

Troubled Waters Under the Tigris and Euphrates Bridges By Abdennour Toumi Ankara, Turkey — Last summer I was in the southeastern province of Mardin, when social-demand riots erupted in the majority of Kurdish villages and towns. Burning tires and barricades blocked the roads as farmers protested the cut-off of electricity and especially of water needed to irrigate…

Abdennour Toumi, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Editors Picks, Syria

Israeli campaign to spread lies exposed by prestigious British group

August 8, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Pro-Israel groups are engaged in a disinformation campaign to discredit organizations that support Palestinian civil rights. The prestigious independent organization Public Interest Investigations has identified a new campaign by extremist pro-Israel groups with U.S. Funding to discredit the important UN Economic and Social Council and the Palestine Return Centre (Center) By Ray Hanania Pro-Israel groups…

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Gaza youth protest Israel’s killing of children

August 6, 2015September 29, 2018 Mohammed Asad No Comments

Gaza’s children came out into the streets this past week to show support for the victims of Israeli extremist brutality, including the arson murder by an Israeli settler of an 18 month old child, Ali Dawabsheh. Dawabsheh died when his home was set fire by Jewish terrorists from nearby illegal Israeli settlements By Mohammed Asad Children in…

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Obama argues the Iraq war only helped strengthen Iran

August 5, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

It was a fundamental truth that most Americans were too overcome with anger to anticipate. The unnecessary American war against Iraq in March 2003 only accomplished one unintended goal, making Iran a much more powerful nation than it was. The Iraq war failed to free the Iraqi people and it had nothing to do with…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Israel, Ray Hanania

SodaStream reports 28 percent drop in sales

August 5, 2015June 12, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

The Israeli company SodaStream, which is based in Airport City adjacent to Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, reported a significant loss in revenue for the first half of 2015. The Israeli owned company became a legitimate of non-violence protestors and activists when it launched a factory in the Occupied West Bank in the industrial zone…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Editors Picks, Israel, Palestine & Jordan, Ray Hanania

Israel struggles with racist underground

August 5, 2015September 24, 2018 James Dorsey No Comments

By James M. Dorsey Israel is struggling with how to deal with groups some of which are underground that are linked to a banned nationalist political party that has emerged at the core of recent racist, anti-Palestinian incidents and include a militant soccer fan group that was responsible for last month’s violent clashes during a…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Israel, Palestine & Jordan

American man joins Libyan revolution in ‘Point and Shoot’

August 4, 2015October 30, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Matt VanDyke, a timid 26-year-old with obsessive-compulsive disorder, left home in Baltimore in 2006 for what he called a “crash course in manhood.” He bought a motorcycle, a video camera and set-off to film himself on a multi-year, 35,000-mile odyssey through North Africa and the Middle East. When revolution broke out in Libya, he joined…

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Yemen and Arab Uprising: Fissures and Repercussions

August 3, 2015August 4, 2015 James Dorsey No Comments

By James M Dorsey Saudi Arabia’s four-month old bombing campaign against Houthi rebel forces in Yemen has had mixed results beyond devastation in the region’s poorest country. The insertion of Saudi-trained Yemeni ground forces that support exiled president Abd Rabbah Mansour Hadi led last month to the capture of the port city of Aden from…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Gulf States

Mega Events: Qatar is too hot, Beijing has no snow

August 1, 2015September 29, 2018 James Dorsey No Comments

International sporting associations struggle to balance adherence to human rights with hosting events in autocratic countries

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Jewish settler terrorists murder 18 month old Palestinian child

July 31, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Israeli settler terrorists were blamed for the burning death murder Friday (July 31, 2015) of an 18 month old Palestinian child. Israeli settlers continue to terrorize Christian and Muslim civilians without response from Netanyahu’s government. Netanyahu’s settler policies have encouraged attacks against Christian and Muslim civilians, as his rhetoric was blamed for the assassination of his predecessor…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Israel, Palestine & Jordan, Ray Hanania

Qatar’s quagmire: existential fears and missed opportunities

July 31, 2015September 29, 2018 James Dorsey No Comments

Access to soccer fields not available to everyone in Qatar where economic and social class distinction is still the rule. Migrant worker populations continue to increase, but not the benefits By James M. Dorsey Walking around Qatar’s monumental Aspire Dome sports academy, coach Fred Engh noticed kids playing soccer on an indoor field big enough…

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The Cairo derby: Politics vs. repression

July 29, 2015September 29, 2018 James Dorsey No Comments

By James M. Dorsey This month’s premier league final between Cairo’s two storied clubs, Al Ahli SC and Al Zamalek SC, once the world’s most violent derby, was more than a clash between two soccer giants. It was a clash between management styles and diametrically opposed approaches towards militant, highly politicized, street battle-hardened soccer fans….

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Heroes, Muses, Jon Stewart and Mordechai Vanunu

July 26, 2015April 13, 2019 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Jon Stewart’s sixteen-year stint at The Daily Show ends on the 70th Anniversary of America’s Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. The still not free Mordechai Vanunu was kidnapped from Rome by Israel’s Mossad a few days before the British newspaper The Sunday Times ran a front page story under the headline: “Revealed: the secrets of Israel’s…

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US secretary of Defense, Ash Carter met secretly with Saudi and Houthi officials in Amman

July 26, 2015June 12, 2019 Ali Younes No Comments

By Ali Younes Jordanian military and government sources told the Arab Daily News late last week that US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter visit to Jordan included a secret meeting between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Nayef and a delegation of the pro-Iranian Yemeni Houthi group currently fighting in Yemen. Carter’s trip to the region…

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M’zab Valley: Neither Sectarian nor Ethnic

July 25, 2015September 29, 2018 Abdennour Toumi No Comments

M’zab Valley: Neither Sectarian nor Ethnic By Abdennour Toumi Algiers, Algeria — The recurring quarrels between the Mozabite and Cha’amba communities are not necessarily limited to historic facts related to the Islamization process throughout the Maghreb. A few Arab families who migrated from el-Hijaz in the middle of the eleventh century, particularly the Beni Salam, found an…

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Should we put Israel in charge of the Kaaba?

July 24, 2015October 2, 2015 rayhanania 1 Comment

Every day, Israeli settlers openly disrespect Islam and Muslims by entering the al-Aqsa Mosque Compound and the Haram al Ash-Sharif near the Dome of the Rock to rally and protest and chant that they will one day destroy these Holy Sites and replace them with their own. And Muslims around the world do nothing about it. Would…

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Middle East Christians get training to reinforce faith

July 22, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

The Ecumenical Institute for the Middle East will launch a new program to bring Christians from the throughout the Arab World together to strengthen their faith in hopes of reinforcing the vanishing Christian presence in the Middle East and Holy land. Participants will come from Levant countries including Palestine, Jordan, Syrian, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq and…

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Constructing a Nation’s Memory: Cinema of Michel Khleifi

July 22, 2015September 29, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

The life and works of Palestinian filmmaker Michel Khleifi will be celebrated in London at the Shabbak Festival featuring his films and the films of others. Khleifi produced the West Bank’s first documentary film in 1980 “Fertile Memory” For many years, Michel Khleifi was the ultimate voice of Palestinian cinema. Emerging from the ashes of PLO…

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