Tag: Arab World

Health of journalist Hisham Gaafar deteriorates in jail

August 16, 2017August 16, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

Health of journalist Hisham Gaafar deteriorates in jail Held 21 Months Without Trial Despite Serious Illness Egyptian authorities should immediately provide appropriate health care to the imprisoned journalist Hisham Gaafar, whose health, including his eyesight, is deteriorating in detention, Human Rights Watch said today. If prison authorities are unable to provide him necessary health care, they…

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Alhurra.com opens the door for independent voices in the Middle East

August 16, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

Alhurra.com opens the door for independent voices in the Middle East Alhurra Television’s all-news Arabic-language website, Alhurra.com, has commissioned some of the most noted and outspoken authors to be a part of the newly created op-ed section of the website. “From A Different Angle,” includes commentary by featured writers who are journalists, intellectuals and human…

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Palestinian-Jordanian food company continues to grow

August 13, 2017August 13, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

Palestinian-Jordanian food company continues to grow Siniora Food Industries Achieved Net Profit of JOD 1.9 Million (USD 2.7 Million) in the First Half of 2017 Amman, Jordan/ Jerusalem, Palestine — Siniora Food Industries, a pioneer in the manufacturing of cold cuts, frozen meat and luncheon, announced its results for the first half of 2017. The results…

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Mansaf, one of the most important Arab recipes

July 19, 2017July 19, 2017 rayhanania 2 Comments

Mansaf, one of the most important Arab recipes When you think of the romantic lifestyle of the Arab in the desert, you think of camels, black and white stallions, heavy black tents, flowing robes, and a silver platter of one of the Arab World’s favorite recipes, Mansaf (Mensif, Mensiff). This lamb and rice dish heaped…

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Gulf Nations right in demanding Al-Jazeera be closed

July 5, 2017September 25, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Gulf Nations right in demanding Al-Jazeera be closed In their confrontation with Qatar, the Gulf Cooperation Council has demanded that Al-Jazeera close its doors. That may sound tough and extreme to some given its many years of battling racism and discrimination in America. But in recent years, Al-Jazeera’s has made a steady downward slide away…

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Gulf Crisis the Reason of Discorde: al-Jazeera Intrudes Again

June 27, 2017 Abdennour Toumi No Comments

Gulf Crisis the Reason of Discorde: al-Jazeera Intrudes Again Why were the U.S. officials and the Arab regimes concerned about al-Jazeera? This is strange since they were dreaming to democratize the Arab world and launching reform processes. By Abdennour Toumi Al-Jazeera is the Arab network that has caused a lot of noise in both the…

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Alberto Fernandez named to head outreach to Arab World

June 13, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

Alberto Fernandez named to head outreach to Arab World Fernandez formerly served as a U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. He will become President of the Middle East Broadcasting Network, which is run by the US Broadcasting Board of Directors. MBN broadcasts news and features in Arabic to Arab World countries The Broadcasting…

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Media exploitation of discrimination and human rights

May 25, 2017September 29, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Media exploitation of discrimination and human rights The news media is often harsh when addressing issues of civil and human rights in the Arab and Muslim Worlds, but they always seem to come up with excuses in their failure to address civil and human rights violations right here in America and in the West. Clearly, the…

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Saving Arab Christians in the Middle East

April 10, 2017April 10, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

Saving Arab Christians in the Middle East The recent massacre of Christians in Egypt by radical Islamic extremists is another reminder of the precarious place that Christians hold in the Muslim World and the Middle East. My column this week, written before the massacre, addresses how Israel is doing more for Christians than the Arab…

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Trump reinforces relations with Arab World

February 12, 2017February 12, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

Trump reinforces relations with Arab World President Trump continued to reinforce American relations with leaders in the Arab World speaking with the President of Iraq and the Emirs of Kuwait and Qatar. The telephone calls come with days of Trump meeting with Israel’s rightwing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and as Israeli public opinion continues to swing…

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Plight of Syrians competes for Oscar

January 26, 2017June 12, 2019 rayhanania 1 Comment

Plight of Syrians competes for Oscar This year’s Academy Awards Oscar presentation of Hollywood Film Oscars includes only two submissions addressing Arab World issues, one on the plight of Syrian refugees and the terrorist war in Aleppo, Syria, and the other a historical drama set during the Algerian civil war of the 1990s. By Ray Hanania Once again…

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Presidents Obama, Trump and the “complacency of hope”

January 20, 2017June 12, 2019 rayhanania 1 Comment

Presidents Obama, Trump and the “complacency of hope” Why change needs to be defined not by eloquent and inspiring promises, but by a new energy in the Arab World to define itself, defend itself and fight for its own justices. The Arab World can’t rely on American presidents, inspirational words or on foreign powers Published in the…

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USS Liberty Veterans: Christmas Email and New Year Letter

December 25, 2016January 2, 2017 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

USS Liberty Veterans Association President’s New Year Mission Letter and a survivors Christmas Email follow: By Eileen Fleming On Christmas Eve, USS Liberty Veteran and speaker Don Pageler emailed the following piece written by a peacekeeping soldier stationed overseas: The Night Before Christmas T’was the night before Christmas, He lived all alone, In a one…

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Jane Fonda: Actress, Activist and Muse #StandingRock #Palestine #Gaza #Vietnam #BabyBoomer #health #spirituality

December 16, 2016September 25, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Jane Fonda turns 79 years young this December 21 By Eileen Fleming Jane Fonda is the muse-meaning source of inspiration for this article but she began to inspire this American baby-boomer in 1971. I was a junior in high school when Jane Fonda starred in “KLUTE” and inspired me to cut my waist length hair…

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CPJ: Record 259 journalists jailed around the world

December 13, 2016January 9, 2019 rayhanania 1 Comment

CPJ: Record 259 journalists jailed around the world A total of 259 journalists are currently in jails in 31 countries, including 53 jailed in the Middle East. The report from the Committee to Protect Journalists notes that Turkey has the largest number of jailed journalists, 81, followed by China, with 38. Despite political criticism of Russia, that…

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A Free Vanunu Ends The Legend of Vanunu and The Final Chapter

December 4, 2016October 30, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Nuclear Whistle Blower Mordechai Vanunu’s July 4th trial reconvenes on 22 December Vanunu has been growing his legend at FaceBook where he wrote: After 30 years in Israel prison the new trial started [on 4 July 2016] from the big trial of exposing Israel Atomic weapons secrets [in 1986-87] to new chargers about moving apartment…

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Dear Darling Jared Kushner and Observer Media

November 25, 2016November 25, 2016 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Jared Kushner became known as “the eyes and ears” of Donald Trump during the campaign and he is now expected to play a key role in efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. By Eileen Fleming Jared Kushner is the grandson of Holocaust survivors and he was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household. Trump’s…

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11 Arab states declare Iran sponsor of terrorism

November 21, 2016November 24, 2016 rayhanania No Comments

Arab states denounce Iran as sponsor of terrorism UN Watch welcomed a letter by 11 Arab countries to the UN which accuses Iran of being “a State sponsor of terrorism” throughout the entire Middle East, and of only increasing “aggression in the region and the continuation of support for terrorist groups” since the signing of…

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