Part of the Ministry of Business and Trade, the CPD recorded 800 official complaints in 2009, compared to just 200 in 2008. According to Qatari daily The Peninsula, the department said the huge jump w…
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A top US diplomat describes as “candid” his talks with Syria’s leader, part of a US move to improve ties with Damascus.
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It is official. An-Nahar’s Nazi scientists declared the Lebanese in Haiti as part of the white minority. (the link is from an-Nahar’s story). (thanks Mohammad)
As part of the 50th Anniversary of the Aswan High Dam the Egyptian media has been writing a lot about the period. Here’s an interesting interview in Al-Masry Al-Youm’s English pages with a Nubian displaced by the High Dam, remembering the lost villages of Nubia and showing distinctly mixed views of Nasser.
I came across this interesting blog, devoted in part to Saudi Arabia’s economics, by Essam al-Zamel [Ar]. In this post he discusses land speculation in Saudi Arabia and its dampening effect on entrepreneurship. The graphic is from his site.
“… China has threatened to slap sanctions on American companies that sell arms to its rival Taiwan as part of a range of punitive actions Beijing is taking to protest the deal.China also summoned U.S. ambassador Jon Huntsman to express its anger over Washington’s announcement, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua said, citing the Foreign Ministry.Beijing also suspended plans for visits between the Chinese and U.S. militaries and postponed a high-level arms control meeting, it announced Saturday, following Washington’s $6.4-billion arms deal with Taiwan….”
He would be on my list of people in the US media with least knowledge of the Middle East region. He is a favorite commentator on Middle East affairs at Fox News. You get the point. And he has an annoying smile, to boot. Look at this jumbled piece here: he assembled the first part from Wikipedia to show his knowledge of Yemeni history, and the second part is the reflection of his jumbled and confused mind. Note his analysis of the Yemeni conflict, and his identification of the exact identity of external support for the Huthi rebels. With people like Ginsberg, we can count on the preservation of public ignorance about the world in the US. And notice that he is trying to be grand in the title.
” this is where the government trains Americans who are part of the most ambitious civilian campaign the United States has mounted in a foreign country in generations — a “civilian surge” intended to improve the lives of Afghans.”
Amman – Arab stock markets suffered from inertia throughout 2009, failing to recover a major part of the losses they incurred due to the global financial crisis that erupted in late 2008. Throughout t…
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I mentioned earlier today that there are reports that Israel is about to move forward on the UNIFIL plan to withdraw Israeli forces from the northern part of the divided village of Ghajar (which Israel concedes is part of Lebanon) while remaining in the part of Ghajar that was part of the Golan Heights. It’s now sounding as if this is actually likely to happen, perhaps imminently.
That’s good timing for The Middle East Journal, if I (ahem) do say so myself, since our current Autumn 2009 issue has a detailed article on the Ghajar issue by Asher Kaufman of Notre Dame University, and he recently discussed it at MEI as well (first of seven clips, or if you just want a podcast go here):
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