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- On Saturday, Egyptians were required to vote “yes” or “no” to the draft constitution. Out of the 51 million eligible to cast their ballots only 18 million did so during the crucial first phase that polled ten governorates, including Cairo and Alexandria. The vote had to be...
- The hardships and humiliations suffered by Palestinians are well known. Social media is swamped with videos of Palestinian women and children being roughed-up or killed by Israel’s so-called Defense Forces. Watching the homes of traumatized families being bulldozed makes for difficult viewing but...
- Saudi Arabia’s decision to call a spade a spade by branding the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) “terrorist” along with other groups bent on destabilizing the Arab world was wise. It is not the moderate organization that it deceitfully portrays itself. It’s rather a shape-shifter molding its statements...
- The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, has been playing by America’s rules for years and received nothing for his efforts apart from empty promises. Unlike his fiery predecessor, Yasser Arafat, until now he’s adopted a non-combative, compromising stance and been taken to task by his...
- I’ve just seen a photograph of the sweetest tiny girl, a Palestinian child little more than a baby, hugging her dead father. I’ve watched televised footage of a distraught father clinging to his young daughter who’s missing half her head, screaming “Please wake up. I’ve brought you a toy.” There...
- The theme of the recent Arab League meet held in Kuwait was solidarity. A worthy but overly ambitious goal when almost half of the League’s member countries are experiencing conflict or interior turmoil, while others hold competing worldviews. Arab leaderships traditionally recoil from airing...
- BASHAR Assad has crossed too many red lines to be part of any transition to democracy. The once reformist eye doctor, who early in his presidency pledged to open up and modernize his country, has become a monstrous example of how power can corrupt and distort a seemingly ordinary individual&rsquo...
- The grocer’s daughter, once the most powerful woman in the world, will be honored by the state tomorrow with a lavish ceremonial funeral in the British capital. Her flag-draped coffin will be taken on a horse-drawn gun carriage down the Strand to Saint Paul’s Cathedral where hundreds...
- Once respected, perhaps even admired as an economic and social model, Turkey now risks losing allies. The proof, in a contest to win a two-year non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), which Ankara considered a done deal after it received letters of support from 160...
- Egypt marks two years of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi’s tenure. It’s been a tough road in many respects, but his shoulders have been sufficiently broad to bear the heavy weight of unforeseen incidents dragging on the economy. Unfortunately, the foreign media tends to overlook the good news...
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