Added on 17/01/2011
Juan Cole
Ben Ali , Cablegate , Civil society , Facebook , First Lady , Governor , Journalist , Leila Ben Ali , North Africa , President , Reuters , Tunisia , Twitter , United States , United States government , Washington , Wikileaks , YouTube
JUAN COLE: Cables show that the U.S. was fully aware of the debilitating level of corruption in Tunisia, and its anti-democratic implications.
Added on 17/01/2011
Hisham Wyne
Algeria , Ben Ali , Democracy , Egypt , Europe , Iraq , Julian Assange , Kuwait , Libya , Mubarak , Oil states , Qatar , Saudi Arabia , Tunisia , Twitter , UAE , United Arab Emirates , United States , Yemen
HISHAM WYNE: Tunisa’s revolution has little to do with the ideals of democracy. It’s a simple cry for better quality of life.
Added on 16/01/2011
Naseem Tarawnah
Jordan , Tunisia
NASEEM TAWRANAH: Events in Tunisia have been followed by the Jordanian people and authorities. It’s unlikely, though, events will follow a similar pattern in the Kingdom.
Added on 16/01/2011
Steve Royston
Ahmed Al-Ghamdi , Anti-blasphemy law , Ben Ali , Catholic Church , Christianity , Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice , Florida , genetic engineering , Islam , Israel , Jeddah , Judaism , Mahatma Gandhi , messenger , Messenger of God , Middle East , Nelson Mandela , President , Prophet Muhammad , Saudi Arabia , Tunisia , Unemployment
STEVE ROYSTON: It’s about building societies in which people are not afraid to think for themselves, and are free to express themselves without fear of censorship or persecution…
Added on 15/01/2011
James M. Dorsey
Abdullah , Al Qaeda , Algeria , Ben Ali , Darfur , East Africa , Egypt , European Union , G-8 , Hillary Clinton , Iran , Iraq , Jordan , Kuwait , Libya , Middle East , Morocco , North Africa , Obama administration , Oil , Political systems , President , Prime Minister , Qatar , Samir Rifai , Saudi Arabia , Secretary of State , Somalia , Southern Sudan , southern Yemen , Sudan , Syria , Tunisia , Tunisian government , Turkey , United Nations , United States , University of Jordan , Yemen , Zine el Abidine Ben Ali
JAMES M. DORSEY: A wave of protests across the Arab world sets the stage for the redrawing of the political map of the Mideast and North Africa.
Added on 15/01/2011
The Moor Next Door
Algeria , Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights , Algiers , Army , Europe , Food prices , National Assembly , Security services , Tunisia
TMND: Many Algerians today feel just as their parents and siblings did in 1988: there are two castes in the country, the official and the unofficial.
Added on 14/01/2011
Syria News Wire
Hizbollah , Lebanon , Prime Minister , Syria
SYRIA NEWS WIRE: Following Hizbollah’s withdrawal from the unity government, what is next for Prime Minister Hariri?
Added on 12/01/2011
Osama Al Sharif
Addis Ababa , Africa , Algeria , Amman , Colonel , Darfur , Egypt , Iraq , Israel , journalist and political commentator , Khartoum , Middle East , Morocco , Oil , Osama Al Sharif , President , Southern Sudan , Sudan , United Kingdom , United States , Yemen
OSAMA AL SHARIF: The modern history of Sudan is dominated by immature political and religious agendas that ignored the country’s racial, religious and economic complexities.
Added on 10/01/2011
Naseem Tarawnah
Amman , Jordan , Member of Parliament , Tunisia , University of Jordan
NASEEM TARAWNAH: There have been many small, low-level outbreaks of violence in Jordan over the past year. Taken together these point to a troubled society.
Added on 08/01/2011
Juan Cole
Afghanistan , Asia , Iran , Iranian government , Iran’s government , Iraq , Islamic Republic of Iran , Karachi , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , oil prices , OPEC , Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries , Pakistan , President , Saudi Arabia , Taliban , Tehran , United Nations , United States
JUAN COLE: While U.S consumers bemoan oil price rises it’s smiles all round in Iran. The OPEC chair is in no hurry to do anything about spiraling costs.
Added on 06/01/2011
David Roberts
Ashoura , Azerbaijan , Cablegate , Iran , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , President , US embassy , Wikileaks
DAVID ROBERTS: Under a section titled ‘He who got slapped’ someone from the US Embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan reported the confrontation…
Added on 04/01/2011
Hasni Abidi
Abdullah , Christian Arab , Christians , Common Ground News Service , Egypt , Iraq , Michel Aflaq , Middle East , Saudi Arabia , United Nations
HASNI ABIDI: The spate of recent attacks on Christians throughout the Arab world has thrown into focus the urgent need to defend their contribution across all areas of life.
Added on 30/12/2010
Jonathan Cook
Bedouin , Ben Gurion University , Benjamin Netanyahu , Christian Zionist , Congress , East Africa , Europe , Human Rights Watch , Israel , Israeli government , Israeli police , Jerusalem , Jewish National Fund , Middle East , Negev , Neve Gordon , North Africa , Palestine , politics professor , Prime Minister , Rabbi , Supreme Court , The National , United Arab Emirates , United Kingdom , United States , Washington , West Bank
JONATHAN COOK: The involvement of extremist Christian groups like God-TV will turn this into a religious confrontation – much harder to resolve…
Added on 27/12/2010
The Moor Next Door
Africa , Al Qaeda , al-Abidine Ben Ali , Christopher Hitchens , Lina Ben M’henni , Media coverage , Mediterranean , Mohamed Bouazizi , North Africa , President , Protests , Reuters , Sidi Bouzid , Tunisia , Twitter , Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali
THE MOOR NEXT DOOR: Following the suicide of a young, unemployed man in Sidi Bouzid, demonstrations have broken out all over Tunisia.
Added on 26/12/2010
Steve Royston
Afghanistan , Democracy , Egypt , Government , Iran , Kabul
STEVE ROYSTON: The concept of government for the people and by the people – is as far from a reality at the end of 2010 as it ever was.
Added on 24/12/2010
Steve Royston
Abdullah , China , Council of Ministers , Deng Xiaoping , Egypt , Facebook , Hosni Mubarak , Jeddah , Leonid Brezhnev , Middle East , Minister of Information , Ministry of Education , Oil producer , President , Russia , SAR , Saudi Arabia , Social Media , Social networking , Soviet Union , Vladimir Putin , Wen Jiabao , Youth
STEVE ROYSTON: Respect for the elderly is deeply ingrained in Arab society. Saudi Arabia, however, faces a major demographic challenge – a hugely youthful population.
Added on 23/12/2010
David Rosen
Arabs , Common Ground News Service , Israel , Palestinian Territories , Rabbi , Racism
RABBI DAVID ROSEN: Eliahu claims to have “evidence” that Islamist forces are providing money for Arabs to buy up property to promote an Arab demographic takeover of the country.
Added on 20/12/2010
Naseem Tarawnah
Amman , Internet connection , Jordan , State Security Court
NASEEM TARAWNAH: A new ‘five star jail’ has just opened in Jordan for the rich and those formerly of public office… Could it be the beginning of a regional franchise?
Added on 16/12/2010
Naseem Tarawnah
Afghanistan , America , Central Intelligence Agency , Fatwa , Jordan , Jordan Times , Jordanian government , Muslim Brotherhood , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , the Jordan Times , United States
NASEEM TARAWNAH: A recently issued fatwa from the Islamic Action Front in Jordan poses interesting questions about the internal turmoil within the Muslim Brotherhood
Added on 12/12/2010
Naseem Tarawnah
Football riots , Jordan , Palestinians , Washington Post
NASEEM TARAWNAH: As a people, we need to find ways of putting aside the rage and the blame. History has shown us little good ever comes from either.