Jan 30 2011
Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship By Robert Fisk, Sunday, 30 January 2011 … The Egyptian tanks, the delirious protesters sitting atop them, the flags, the 40,000 protesters weeping and crying and cheering in Freedom Square and praying around them, the Muslim Brotherhood official sitting amid the tank passengers. Should this be compared to the liberation …
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Jan 30 2011
The Egyptian masses won’t play ally to Israel By Gideon Levy, published 01:55 30.01.11 Three or four days ago, Egypt was still in our hands. The army of pundits, including our top expert on Egypt, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, said that “everything is under control,” that Cairo is not Tunis and that Mubarak is strong. Ben-Eliezer said …
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Jan 29 2011
Arab states: a quagmire of tyranny By Soumaya Ghannoushi, Friday 28 January 2011 23.00 GMT … We are witnessing the breakdown of the Arab state after decades of failure and mounting crises. The Arab political establishment has never looked weaker than it does today. It is either dying a protracted silent death, corroded from within, or …
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Jan 29 2011
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo5Fn1-2E8o[/tube] A people defies its dictator, and a nation’s future is in the balance By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 29 January 2011 … It might be the end. It is certainly the beginning of the end. Across Egypt, tens of thousands of Arabs braved tear gas, water cannons, stun grenades and live fire yesterday to demand the …
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Jan 22 2011
Walid Jumblatt: Lebanon’s kingmaker By Lamis Andoni Last Modified: 22 Jan 2011 15:10 GMT +++ Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon’s 300,000-strong Druze community, has thrown his weight behind Hezbollah and Syria in the political showdown with the US-backed March 14 alliance that is brewing in Beirut. Jumblatt leads a bloc of 11 parliamentarians and …
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Jan 17 2011
Mona Eltahawy, in the Guardian: Tunisia: the first Arab revolution http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/16/tunisia-first-arab-revolution-ben-ali Also in the Guardian: Tunisia’s Jasmine revolution: A flower that could be crushed http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/17/tunisia-jasmine-revolution-editorial Lamis Andoni, in Al Jazeera: To the tyrants of the Arab world http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/01/2011115135046129936.html Note that this ends in poetry by Abul-Qasim al-Shabi in his poem To the Tyrants of the …
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Jan 16 2011
The brutal truth about Tunisia By Robert Fisk Monday, 17 January 2011 The end of the age of dictators in the Arab world? Certainly they are shaking in their boots across the Middle East, the well-heeled sheiks and emirs, and the kings, including one very old one in Saudi Arabia and a young one in …
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