‘Attempted military coup against Qatari regime fails’ Doha: A military coup was staged against the regime of US-backed Qatari King Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani with no success, a Saudi TV channel reports. According to Al Arabiya TV, a number of high-ranking military officers rose against the Qatari Emir, triggering fierce clashes between some 30 military officers and US-backed royal guards outside the Emir’s palace, the report said on Tuesday. The coup was foiled following the arrest of the officers involved in the effort. American helicopters have reportedly transferred the Qatari Emir and his wife to an unknown location. Meanwhile, informed Kuwaiti sources said that mediated recent disputes between Saudi Arabia and Qatar have unveiled a new series of disagreements between the officials of the two Persian Gulf states. The revelation of Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani’s secret phone conversation on the internet intensified internal conflicts between the two Arab states.
B'Tselem Video | Settlers at the Door – Hebron, 2007. Why Arab women still 'have no voice' - Talk to Al Jazeera. Is the Arab Spring a movement leading to more freedom and equal rights? Not for women, according to Amal al-Malki, a Qatari author who is very concerned about the rights of women in the Arab world. She is largely skeptical of recent developments and says, if anything, the Arab Spring has only highlighted the continuing “second-class citizenship" of women in the region.
She argues that despite some progress made Arab women are still largely absent in the public arena. “We have no voice. We have no visibility... Will the Arab Spring deliver its promises to everyone? On this episode of Talk to Al Jazeera, we talk to Amal al-Malki, a woman not afraid to ring the alarm bells, about women's rights in the Arab world, political and social empowerment and Islamic feminism. Children of the Revolution - An FP Photo Essay. Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring, has also seen its youth play a vital role in the protests that overthrew President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January.
According to German analysts, school books may have helped instigate the protests there. The The Tunisian curriculum exposed children to human rights that didn't match the local political reality. A Tunisian philosophy teacher, Sarhan Dhouib, who contributed to the study, said that schools in Tunisia encouraged students to think about democracy, noting that "the curriculum there covers both Arab philosophers and western ones like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. " Above, a child stands next to soldiers during a demonstration in Tunis outside Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi's office calling for his resignation, on Jan. 23. Malicious Al Jazeera War Machine Loosing Last Decent Workforce Over Fabrications & Outrageous Bias.
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