Added on 19/12/2010
Prince El Hassan bin Talal
Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , Baghdad , Barack Obama , Cairo , Chanukah , Christmas , Common Ground News Service , Dubai , Eid Al-Adha , guard , Holy Temple , Iran , Iraq , Iraqi government , Jerusalem , Mecca , Middle East , Pakistan , Peace , President , United States , Yemen
HRH PRINCE EL HASSAN BIN TALAL: It was a year which began with much promise and, whisper it, hope around the Middle East. It ends, however, with feelings that are all too familiar…
Added on 08/12/2010
Arianna Huffington
Abdullah bin Zayed , Abu Dhabi , Al Qaeda , Amr Moussa , Bahrain , Cairo , Common Ground News Service , Egypt , Facebook , International Peace Institute , iPhone , Jordan , League of Arab States , Lebanon , Malaysia , Middle East , Osama Bin Laden , Pakistan , Palestinian Authority , Palestinian Territories , Qatar , Salam Fayyad , Social Media , The Huffington Post , Twitter , United Arab Emirates , YouTube
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: No longer is our best hope for change governments. If change happens, it’s going to be social media fuelling the transformation.
Added on 04/12/2010
Jonathan Cook
Afghanistan , Europe , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Middle East , Pakistan , Saudi Arabia , Tel Aviv , United Nations , United States , United States Army , Washington , Wikileaks
JONATHAN COOK: At work here is a set of global forces that the US, in its hubris, believed it could tame in its own interests. By the early ’90s that arrogance manifested itself in the claim of the “end of history…
Added on 01/12/2010
Osama Al Sharif
America , China , Department of State , Iran , Iraq , Local media , Middle East , North Korea , Pakistan , United States , US Federal Reserve , US government , US intelligence , Washington , whistleblower site , Yemen
OSAMA AL SHARIF: It is not what diplomats do which will change, but the way they do it. In the age of digital information it is proving difficult, almost impossible, to keep anything hidden.
Added on 27/11/2010
Nabila Ramdani
bank robberies , BBC , Canada , Common Ground News Service , Doha , France , London , Mehdi Hasan , New Statesman , Nicolas Sarkozy , Pakistan , President , Qatar , Qatar Foundation
NABILA RAMDANI: Though we might not have had an impact on policy, the debate demonstrated people do not need to agree with each other to appreciate that there is another side to every argument.
Added on 06/11/2010
American Bedu
Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh , Benazir Bhutto , Fatwa , India , Pakistan , Prime Minister , Saudi Arabia , Women in the workplace
My analysis of the fatwa is that the conservatives of Saudi society are not ready to see women as cashiers. The majority of grocery store cashiers in Saudi Arabia are foreign nationals from Pakistan and India.
Added on 25/10/2010
Alexander McNabb
Dubai , Pakistan , Sharjah , United Arab Emirates
It’s expensive stuff, this taking a taxi. And yet the drivers seem to be worse off than ever – although I don’t see the large numbers of middlemen at the taxi companies and regulators suffering.