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- U.N.: High-level uranium in IranInspectors found uranium in Iran enriched up to 27%, a level that's higher than previous ones, a U.N. nuclear watchdog agency report said Friday. […]
- Muslim Brotherhood candidate takes lead in EgyptEgypt's Muslim Brotherhood predicted Friday that its presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi will contest a run-off vote with former regime figure Ahmed Shafik, as counting in the country's landmark election got under way. […]
- Officials: Al Qaeda militants killed in Yemen clashesThirty-eight al Qaeda militants were killed in clashes with Yemen's military, local security officials said Friday. […]
- Anti-immigration protest turns violent in Tel AvivA racially charged demonstration against the Israeli government's handling of immigration from Africa turned violent Wednesday night as protesters attacked foreign workers, shattered car windows and vandalized a shop owned by a Sudanese migrant. […]
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Masters Degree – Publishes 40 Best Blogs for Following the Middle East – Middle East Post is number 15
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What happens around the world impacts our lives here in the US. Conflicts, human rights violations, and the involvement of our troops are issues that are important to many educated Americans. The Middle East is involved in so many issues that matter to the US and the world, and you can keep up with them by following these blogs.
Experts Who Aren’t Always Expert
In the prehistoric age, circa 1990, if you wanted to form an opinion about a complicated subject you likely grabbed the encyclopedia, went to a library or [singlepic id=430 w=320 h=240 float=right]bought a book. Or maybe you just made stuff up — the uncheckable fact thing.
Even in the internet age, we can be, well, inventive. Remember Colin Powell using the detailed (and neatly labeled) satellite pictures to carefully explain Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction/chemical weapons program? Forming opinions and influence peddling are definitely much easier if the only “facts”
Shifting Tectonics: Non-democratic Regimes on the Brink of Collapse
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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.
An American Veto, an ongoing Israeli occupation and A State of Revolt in the Arab World
The American Veto in the last vote on the Arab demand to condemn the building of Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank showed how [singlepic id=487 w=320 h=240 float=right]difficult it is to reach a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians. The Palestinian Authority stated immediately after the American Veto that it will re-consider the whole peace process and whether it is realistic to say that a peace resolution can be achieved with the current Israeli leadership.
The Palestinians criticized the American decision to vote against the settlements draft resolution that could have embarrassed Israel and obliged it to stop its
SFG Report on Water in ME – Blue Peace
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The water crisis in the Middle East can be transformed into an opportunity for a new form of peace – the blue peace where any two countries with access to adequate, clean and sustainable water resources do not feel motivated to engage in a military conflict. This is possible with new policy instruments, some of which would be acceptable to the governments in the region in the near future, while others could be adapted in the long run. In the process, the River Jordan and Barada, Mountain Aquifer, and the Dead Sea, which are currently depleting at a fast rate, would be rejuvenated. The Euphrates, Tigris, Litani,
Co-Founder of MEP Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad about the Egyptian Revolution
Co-Founder of Middle East Post, Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad talking about the Egyptian Revolution on the BBC World Have your say
