Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Is the US going to commit another big error in the Middle East?

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The USS Barry fires a cruise missile during the campaign against Libya in 2011 (Photo American Navy) The American Secretary of State John...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Syria, Iran: proof that rebels were responsible for gas attack; Obama considers military options

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Syrian state television said troops found chemical agents in rebel tunnels in a Damascus suburb on Saturday and some soldiers were "...
Friday, August 23, 2013

Bombs in Tripoli (N-Lebanon) kill at least 42 people

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  The damage inside one of the mosques in Tripoli. (Photo: The Daily Star/Mohammad Azakir) Two car bombs outside mosques in the north Le...

Tunisian Ennahda accepts mediation plan proposed by trade union

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Tunisia's governing Islamist Ennahda party edged closer to negotiations with secular opponents on Thursday by agreeing in principle to ...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

The twisted reality of Egypt's revolution: Mubarak to be free, Morsi in prison

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  An Egyptian court on Wednesday ordered the release of ousted President Hosni Mubarak. The North Cairo misdemeanor appeals court came to...

Syria: a chemical attack?

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  A picture of victims of what the Syrian opposition claims was an attack by government troops with missiles containing a chemical agent in...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Tawfiq Saleh, director of the filmversion of Kanafani's Men in the Sun, 1926 -2013

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A few days late, but certainly not too late, I want to pay tribute to the Egyptian filmmaker Tawfiq Saleh, who passed away in Gaza on 18 Aug...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Israel supports the Egyptian generals

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American Jewish groups are pretending that the massacre of Muslim Brotherhood supporters really isn’t a big deal. Why? Because, writes Pete...

Egyptian police arrest leader of the Muslim Brotherhood

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Badie, the guide of the Muslim Brotherhood shortly after his arrest. (Phote taken from Facebook opage of the Egyptian police). Muslim Bro...
Monday, August 19, 2013

Killings continue in Egypt: 36 inmates suffocated, 25 policemen gunned down in Sinai

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  The privately-owned Sawt al-Umma newspaper on Sunday carried this sarcastic cartoon of Defense Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ...
Sunday, August 18, 2013

Sectarian violence in Egypt - whose responsibility?

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The church of Mar Girgis (St George) in Sohag, 14-8-2013 The site Jadaliyya carries a report about the attacks on churches and other Chr...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Muslim Brotherhood calls for another week of protests

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(Photo Mosa'ab elShamy) The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has called for a week of protests across the country to begin Saturday 17 Au...