2 days ago by Signs of the Times

Iran's Arabic language satellite television channel, al-Alam, has been taken off air by two Arab-controlled satellite companies. The operators of Nilesat and Arabsat cited a breach of contract according to Egypt's MENA news agency, but al-Alam said they had not been given a reason. Analysts say some ...

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84 days ago by realistic bird

This article caught my eye because it points to a very important issue regarding investigative reporting in the Arab world. Even though the media in the Arab world is more known as biased towards the governments yet there are others that really care about the people and try their best to use the med ...

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97 days ago by innovation2

Image via Wikipedia Tom Friedman In 2002, the U.N. Development Program released its first ever Arab Human Development Report, which bluntly detailed the deficits of freedom, women’s empowerment and knowledge-creation holding back the Arab world. It was buttressed with sobering statistics: Greece alo ...

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99 days ago by Clarity Staff Reporter

The jury remains out on whether the Sunni-Shia factionalism violence will get much worse before it gets better. Prominent academics such as Reza Aslan claim that Islam is in a period of reform, with some Islamic nations looking for a revisionist positioning to more meaningfully engage with the moder ...

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137 days ago by admin

asked: Arab Refugee Problem – Fact or Fiction – Norman A. Rubin The problem of the Palestine refugees have been a constant theme focused in the media – gallons of ink scrawled on reams of paper told of their plight; television broadcasts pictured the refugees in the squalid refugee-camps and voiced ...

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148 days ago by bobsikes

by Victor Davis Hanson: 1) Why did we reject the Bush policy of non-engagement with a monster like Ahmadinejad, who oppressed his own and threatened nuclear destruction to Israel? Is it all that moral, or all that wise, or all that much in US realpolitik interests to apologize to a thug? Does it sho ...

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154 days ago by admin

AniYochanan asked: There is a sufficient amount of irrefutable evidence that the notion of “Palestine” is a post-1967 invention, to easily ascertain that “Palestine” is not a reality; the Arabs, however, who have been uprooted from their homes are a human reality. To be displaced by the fortunes of ...

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244 days ago by realistic bird

By Ahmad Barqawi Something happened in Gaza that shook the very core of my foundation and being. If this is what the ‘progress’ and ‘evolution’ of the human species have yielded so far, then I don’t even want to imagine what our fated future is holding in store for us. It gives me shudders to think ...

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