MIDEAST: Israeli Military Fires Up the Creative Side
War brings economic development, we're told at times. Like the cliché or not, in their case, Israelis have become a successful start-up nation by building a powerful start-up military.
View ArticleLIBYA: Headed for Some Sort of Sharia
The announced introduction of Islamic law in post-Gaddafi Libya has drawn strong opposition from women, the non-religious and the Amazigh minority.
View ArticleUS-IRAN: Key Senator Pushes "Nuclear Option" Against Central Bank
Amid simmering tensions surrounding Iran's nuclear programme, a key pro-Israel U.S. senator has tabled legislation that would effectively ban international financial companies that do business with...
View ArticleISRAEL: Women Push Back Into Public Space
They're looking at you "uncensored". Posters of women by women have recently multiplied on the holy city walls. "Women on billboards are back in Jerusalem," they proclaim defiantly.
View ArticleEgyptians Launch New Battle for Minimum Wage
Mohamed El-Abyad's employer has agreed to increase his salary by 20 percent, but the factory worker still cannot afford to send his children to school. After paying his apartment rent and utilities,...
View ArticleMIDEAST: Erdogan Most Popular Leader By Far Among Arabs
Despite repeated expressions of support by President Barack Obama for democratic change during the "Arab Spring", the United States remains widely distrusted in the region, according to a major new...
View ArticleEGYPT: It's January Again in Tahrir Square
Days of clashes between protesters and security forces culminated on Tuesday evening in what was estimated to be a million-man rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand an end to military rule. The new...
View ArticleEGYPT: Military More Repressive Than Mubarak
Egyptians hoping for greater freedoms and less police brutality after the fall of president Hosni Mubarak say the military council that has ruled in his place has carried on the ex-dictator's brutal...
View ArticleISRAEL: Not When Desert Is Home
"Anyone who lives sees, but he who moves sees more," a local Bedouin proverb has it. Caught in a web of roads and fences, electric cables and pylons, closed military training grounds and trails of Air...
View ArticleMIDEAST: Guarding Aggressors Against Victims
Ahmed Qaraeen walks with a limp, more than two years after he was shot twice, in the hip and left knee, by an Israeli settler near his home in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan.
View ArticleArab Women Seek a Place in the Spring
As several countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) elect bodies to write new constitutions, women are looking to expand their rights through legislation.
View ArticleEGYPT: Muslim Brotherhood Looks Beyond Tahrir
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood came under fire from various political quarters for its decision to stay out of last week's clashes in and around Cairo's Tahrir Square. But as Egyptians vote in the...
View ArticleMost Israelis Favour a Nuclear-Free Middle East, Poll Shows
A clear majority of Israeli Jews would support a nuclear weapons-free Middle East, even if it meant that Israel too would have to give up its stockpile of nuclear weapons.
View ArticleISRAEL: Eritreans Flee From Dictatorship to Detention
Standing across the street from the American embassy in Tel Aviv, more than 200 Eritrean asylum seekers chanted "Yes to justice! Yes to humanity!", and demanded international intervention to stop...
View ArticleEGYPT: ‘Army On Its Way Out'
Egyptians in Cairo and Alexandria went to the polls on Monday in the first parliamentary elections since the January 25 protest movement drove former president Hosni Mubarak from a 30-year grip on...
View ArticleEGYPT: Round One Goes to the Islamists
Islamists appear poised for a landslide victory in the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections, putting them on track to secure a majority in the country's first parliament since the fall of...
View ArticleISRAEL: ‘Don't be Right, be Clever'
Is his reticence vis-à-vis the Palestinians justified? Has his unsympathetic view of the convulsions gripping the Middle East conquered the world's leaders? Is he right about Iran's nuclear intentions?
View ArticleBOOKS-US: Deconstructing Thomas Friedman
A new book on the influential New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman sets out to debunk his hawkish, neoliberal views, accusing him of overt racism, factual errors and skewed judgments on issues...
View ArticleStepping Towards Nuclear-Free Middle East
Representatives from over 65 organisations and countries convened in Amman, Jordan last week in an effort to lay the groundwork for the United Nations' goal of creating a Middle East without nuclear...
View ArticleOP-ED: How About an Israeli Destruction Freeze?
Much was made of what many in the media described as a "confrontation" between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama over the building of illegal Israeli...
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