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  As violence raged in Syria, U.S. officials made clear Tuesday that the United States has lost patience with President Bashar al-Assad. […]
- Yemeni VP announces he'll run for president
  Yemeni Vice President Abdurabu Mansur Hadi kicked off his presidential campaign Tuesday, announcing he will run in the February 21 election. […]
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  A low-slung skyline. A slate gray sky. Rumbling. Close your eyes. It could be the sound of rolling thunder. […]
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  When 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. […]
- State media: Iran is ready to ban oil exports to Europe
  Iranian lawmakers appeared ready to impose a ban on oil exports to Europe in retaliation for sanctions put in place by the European Union and the United States in January, state media reported Tuesday. […]

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Israel builds settlements in the West Bank, the PLO is preparing for September declaration and a possible Israeli Iranian confrontation in a couple of months

July 18, 2011 Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad No comments

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The Israeli Ministry of Housing and Construction opened a new project to build 6,900 new units in the settlements of the West Bank. Betar Eleet, Kerni Shomron are from the settlements that the building will take place at. The new units will be built in the 1967 occupied lands and are considered illegal and an obstacle in the way to reach any peace talks.

The Israeli government action came after a wide campaign was started inside Israel against the high prices of houses inside Israel. The Israeli minister Etias is trying to mind a real crisis by offering to build new settlements units that will affect on the pricing of houses in Israel. Until the moment, there was

FPC Tour: Third and Fourth Days: Minneapolis – Minnesota Journalism Center, Panel Discussion with Midwest International NGO Network members, Netroots Conference

June 17, 2011 Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad No comments

The Third day started with a discussion between the bloggers and several professors, PHD students, Assistant Professors and undergraduate students at the [singlepic id=562 w=320 h=240 float=right]Minnesota Journalism Center, University of Minnesota Journalism School. Several experts in Journalism took part in the discussion.
Jane Kirtley talked about Ethical responsibilities and legal rights of new media in a democratic society. She describes freedom of press as an important condition in order to get real democracy. Seth Lewis talked about how media digitization changes the social, cultural and economic context of news. Jeff Broadbent talked about the impact of new media political mobilization and the spread of new ideas. Nora Paul talked about the use of social media

FPC Tour: Second Day: Discussing Internet Use and threats on those who use it

June 15, 2011 Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad No comments

The second day of the FPC started by taking the bloggers and journalists to a panel discussion with leading Internet freedom advocacy group at the Center for[singlepic id=556 w=320 h=240 float=right] International Media Assistance, Robert Guerra, Cynthia Wong and Susan Morgan talked at a panel to discuss the use of Internet, freedom of use of Internet and safe use of Internet.

Patrick Meier started by talking about the recent change in the Arab world. He quoted an Egyptian protestor: “We use facebook to schedule protests, twitter to coordinate and youtube to tell the world.” Patrick talked about the Egyptian great use of mapping and Internet in the time of the revolution and even these

FPC Tour in the U.S: First day: Meeting Alec Ross, Judith A. McHale, Daniel B. Baer and senior Arab and International Bloggers

June 14, 2011 Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad No comments

Monday was the first day in the FPC Foreign Reporting Tour that brings twenty journalists and bloggers from North Africa, the Middle East, Portugal, China, [singlepic id=552 w=320 h=240 float=right]Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and many other countries.
The reasons of this tour are varied between giving an opportunity to the journalists and bloggers to speak at Panels about their experience and opinion of the use of social media and Internet, and also to give them a chance to ask American officials questions about what they do in order to advance freedom of expression and freedom of using Internet.

Middle East Post to cover the FPC Foreign Reporting Tour in the United States of America

June 08, 2011 Middle East Post No comments

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

Is it for the sake of protecting Libyan civilians or the Libyan Oil?

March 21, 2011 Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad No comments

The UN security council made its decision..and the joined American, French, English and Italian forces started their campaign against Libya. President [singlepic id=504 w=320 h=240 float=right]Obama did not seem to be really happy to declare the participation of the American forces in the military campaign and tried to introduce the American role as a supporter rather than a leader in the attack against Tripoli.

Kaddafi’s government considered the attack a part of a crusade’s campaign against Islam and continued to claim that it did not break the seize fire. The

Talks between the U.S and Israel to open new talks between the latter and the Palestinians

November 19, 2010 Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad No comments

The direct talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians continue to be suspended since the last 10 months Israeli freeze of settlements building expired. [singlepic id=413 w=320 h=240 float=right] Talks between the United States and Israel continue to take place in order to convince the latter to stop the settlements building and return to direct talks with the Palestinians.

The American administration gave guarantees to Israel in exchange to an Israeli agreement to freeze its settlements building through the West Bank. The guarantees include twenty fighter jets that the Us would supply to Israel without paying for them. The Israelis asked through their discussions with the