CNN Middle East News- Ban condemns Syrian 'brutality' in Homs, warns worse may comeThe Syrian assault on the city of Homs is "a grim harbinger of worse to come" without united pressure on the government in Damascus, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday. […]
- Activist: Infants, medical staff among dead in Homs crackdownFour straight days of shelling and bombing by Syrian government forces into the besieged city of Homs have left residents cowering, afraid to escape and fearing for their lives as bodies lie in the streets, unable to be recovered. […]
- Syrian regime gets bloody nose from resistanceOne fateful consequence of President Bashar al-Assad's ferocious crackdown on Syrian protesters is the emergence of the domestic armed resistance, the Free Syrian Army. […]
- Al-Assad hangs on by ruthlessness, reformist imageWhen the Tunisian revolt erupted last year, Tunisia's president fled power in weeks. When Egyptians took to the streets, longtime leader Hosni Mubarak was swiftly ousted as well. […]
- No Libya play for the West in SyriaAmid growing outrage over civilian casualties in Syria, there are ever more urgent calls to aid -- or at least protect -- the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. There is renewed talk of creating safe havens and humanitarian corridors inside the country. And those demanding tougher measures are again asking why events in Syria should not prompt Libya […]
- Ban condemns Syrian 'brutality' in Homs, warns worse may come
Tag Archives: change
Middle East Post to cover the FPC Foreign Reporting Tour in the United States of America
Next Week 12-18 June 2011, a tour will be held by the American Department of State about Blogging for Social and Political Change. The Tour aims to explore[singlepic id=546 w=320 h=240 float=right] how the U.S government advances foreign policy positions on the web and how strategy is implemented. The tour will take place at Washington DC and Minneapolis.
Senior and Mid-Level bloggers and Journalists from Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Armenia, Germany, Portugal, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Morocco, Oman, Yemen, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Palestine will take part in the tour and report about what they explore
Shifting Tectonics: Non-democratic Regimes on the Brink of Collapse
By Samer Nammari[singlepic id=488 w=320 h=240 float=right]
It has always been posited that authoritarian regimes in the Middle East (two of which have already collapsed) were invulnerable to change; a number of scholars (like Paul Brooker in his book Non-democratic Regimes, Cf. Brooker, Paul. Non-Democratic Regimes. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)) in the past had assumed that those authoritarian regimes had at their disposal certain measures that were unavailable to other non-democratic regimes present at the time and made them much more stable.
The Egyptian Revolution…A beginning for a change that is needed in the Arab world
The world is still observing and understanding what is going on in Egypt. No one predicted such a sudden change and move from the people who have been [singlepic id=476 w=320 h=240 float=right] ruled by President Mubarak for more than thirty years. Even the super intelligence agencies did not predict such a quick and sudden change in the Arab world.
It all started ten days ago when Egyptian protestors went out to demonstrate after creating several Facebook groups calling for a change after the people revolution in Tunisia. Many did not believe that social networks such as Facebook would succeed in helping to make such a movement that later found a great
For the Arab Youth
The situation of the Arab youth in most of the Arab countries is in a bad shape. The obstacles which the youth [singlepic id=140 w=320 h=240 float=right] are facing in their way to build the future are more than what they can confront. The continuous competition between the Arab governments and the oppositions results in putting boundaries for the interests and activities of the new generations. The governments decide what is allowed and what is forbidden.
