Monthly Archives: February 2009

Future coalitions

A good research on Kuwaiti news­pa­per Awan on who is going to join who in Iraqi provinces, but first lets look at this ques­tion. With the emer­gence of the Provin­cial final results, Iraqi writer Muhanad Al-Samawi says that most west­erner … Con­tinue read­ing

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Moderate” Arabs in trouble

Pales­tin­ian – Israeli colum­nist Salih Al-Na’ami: Iron­i­cally, there are Arabs regret the fall of the “Kadima and Labor” par­ties, despite it is the same gov­ern­ment who said the famous three (NO)s: No to the return of the refugees, no to the … Con­tinue read­ing

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American delegation met with former Iraqi army officers

- Saudi news­pa­per Al-Watan reported today; an unan­nounced meet­ing between an Amer­i­can del­e­ga­tion and for­mer Iraqi army offi­cers in Amman — Jor­dan. the ten days nego­ti­a­tions will end with report to be sub­mit­ted to the Amer­i­can Admin­is­tra­tion and will includes … Con­tinue read­ing

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Betting on a losing Iranian horse

Arab and West­ern media put all the bets on Khatami’s can­di­dacy. Egypt­ian writer Fahmy Hawaidy explains why they are bet­ting on a los­ing horse: If Khatami loses the elec­tion, he will end his polit­i­cal career, and if he wins, he will … Con­tinue read­ing

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Democratic decoration

Accord­ing to Assafir: Egypt­ian oppo­si­tion Major-General Mah­moud Zaher says: Ayman Nour’s released to be used again to legit­imize the can­di­dacy of Mubarak’s son Jamal.

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New — old spy story

Why the NYT brought the 4 — 5 months old sto­r­yarrest in Lebanon, which pushed Hezbol­lah to take a new secu­rity measures.

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Interview with Egyptian Ayman Nour

Ara­bic Lan­guage, video inter­view with the Egypt­ian ex-prisoner, just released and the leader of Al-Ghad Party Ayman Nour [scroll down].

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Left” and “Right” in the post-election era

Fad­hil Al-Rubai is try­ing to ana­lyze the post-election Iraq and he sees the emer­gence of two groups, but the prob­lem is: What do you call these groups? If we use the inter­na­tional polit­i­cal clas­si­fi­ca­tion (right and left), then we dis­cover … Con­tinue read­ing

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New Arab-World order

Arab coun­tries are try­ing to find their places in the new Arab-World order: Jor­dan­ian Fahad Al-Khaitan: Where is Jor­dan from the recent diplo­matic move­ments? Assafir edi­to­r­ial: Where is Lebanon in the new Arab rec­on­cil­i­a­tion map and inter­na­tional reforms?

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Al-Qaeda in Yemen

Despite Yemen doing its best to con­firm the exis­tence of AL-Qaeda in the coun­try, Yemeni Inte­rior Min­is­ter made the mis­take of his life telling Jor­dan­ian news­pa­per Addus­tour: Al-Qaeda doesn’t exist in Yemen.

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