Category: The Middle East

Ehna kullina Misryeen!

We Are All Egyptians By Nicholas D. Kristof, February 3, 2011 Inside Tahrir Square on Thursday, I met a carpenter named Mahmood whose left arm was in a sling, whose leg was in a cast and whose head was being bandaged in a small field hospital set up by the democracy movement. This was the seventh …

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Useful gangsters

It’s not radical Islam that worries the US – it’s independence By Noam Chomsky, Friday 4 February 2011 16.30 GMT “The Arab world is on fire,” al-Jazeera reported last week, while throughout the region, western allies “are quickly losing their influence.” The shock wave was set in motion by the dramatic uprising in Tunisia that drove …

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Feels good

It feels good to be Arab these days By Goufrane Mansour, Thursday 3 February 2011 14.59 GMT … The Arab awakening, for that is what it is, which began in Tunisia and is now gripping Egypt, has taken western powers, and indeed the world, by surprise. Yet it is the Arab people themselves, myself included, men and …

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Are you in the West mad, too?

Blood and fear in Cairo’s streets as Mubarak’s men crack down on protests By Robert Fisk, Thursday, 3 February 2011 … “President” Hosni Mubarak’s counter-revolution smashed into his opponents yesterday in a barrage of stones, cudgels, iron bars and clubs, an all-day battle in the very centre of the capital he claims to rule between tens …

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Chaos!

By Sadhbh Walshe, Wednesday 2 February 2011 16.05 GMT … Earlier on his own programme (view clip here), Glenn Beck had so many devils dancing around in his brain as a result of the chaos in Egypt that he was at a total loss as to who to support, who to oppose or, indeed, what …

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Matthew 23 woes

Huckabee: Israel can build in West Bank, Jerusalem     THE ASSOCIATED PRESS     JERUSALEM — Potential 2012 U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says preventing Jewish settlers from building in east Jerusalem is as outrageous as discriminating against Americans because of their race, language or religion.     Huckabee spoke at the dedication of a new Jewish neighborhood in east …

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Egypt parade

Secular and devout. Rich and poor. They marched together with one goal By Robert Fisk, Wednesday, 2 February 2011… It was a victory parade – without the victory. They came in their hundreds of thousands, joyful, singing, praying, a great packed mass of Egypt, suburb by suburb, village by village, waiting patiently to pass through …

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