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But this week he is taking a trip to Bahrain, his second in the past year, both paid by the Bahraini government. It's part of a year-long friendship the congressman has developed with the Gulf nation. In March 2011, just weeks into the crisis, Faleomavaega emerged seemingly out of nowhere — he has no history of commenting on Middle East affairs — to enter a 2,500-word statement [5] into the Congressional Record that closely echoed the Bahraini government's spin.
War in Context … with attention to the unseen
Yesterday, YNet, the Times of Israel, the JTA, and the Jewish Daily Forward published reports about the targeting of 200 Jewish university students in a guerrilla campaign instigated by “pro-Palestinian” activists at the start of Passover. One problem with the story — it never happened.
Mondoweiss | The War of Ideas in the Middle East
Maysaloon - ميسلون
Creative Syria's Camille Otrakji tries once again to convince people that Assad's not such a bad guy. I can often distinguish Camille's articles for his love of making up statistics and then drowning his readers in the detail; and who can ever forget how he - with a straight face - tried to cite Facebook polls as an indicator of the level of support that Assad enjoys.Secular State as the Alternative to the Present State in Iran (in Persian) A Poetry Reading by Granaz Mousavi (in Persian) Woman's body, a symbol of Political Changes in Contemporary Iran (in Persian) Revolution, Reform and Repression: Challenges to Women’s Inclusion and Equality in the Middle East & North Africa
Center for Near Eastern Studies :: Podcasts
Middle Eastern and Islamic Review | The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
The Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review (HMEIR) is Harvard’s principal journal dealing with the Middle East and the world of Islam. Founded in 1994 and sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), HMEIR aims at publishing work based on original research and distinguished by the highest quality of scholarship. Toward this end, the Review contributions hold the promise of advancing our knowledge and understanding of the many sub-fields that fall under the rubric of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. It considers manuscripts on topics covering a broad range of disciplines, with particular emphasis on the humanities and the social sciences, and reflecting a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives.
A lecture and question and answer session with James A. Larocco, Ambassador (Retired) and Director, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA), National Defense University Posted: 7/7/2011 On Tuesday, September 28, UCLA's Center for Middle East Development (CMED) hosted a panel discussion on "Is Freedom of Speech Possible in the Arab World?" with Tim Sebastian, Dr. Asli Bali and Professor David Kaye.
Center for Middle East Development
London Middle East Institute
London Middle East Institute (LMEI) The London Middle East Institute (LMEI) draws upon the resources of London and SOAS to provide teaching, training, research, publication, consultancy, outreach and other services related to the Middle East. It serves as a neutral forum for the consideration of issues concerning that region and helps to create links between individuals and institutions with academic, commercial, diplomatic, media or other specialisations. With its own professional staff of Middle East experts, the LMEI is further strengthened by its academic membership - the largest concentration of Middle Eastern expertise in any institution in Europe.Economic Research Forum
- Corruption was endemic in Tunisia and rising. According to Transparency International, Tunisia's ranking on the index dropped from 43 in 2005 to 65 in 2009 (out of 179 countries) with a score of 4.2 (with 1 the most corrupt and 10 the least corrupt). Furthermore, the survey conducted ... continue reading
Sign up for our mailing list for regular updates. Follow us online: The Center's many programs benefit from the support of its generous community of donors — alumni, parents and friends. Jadaliyya Jadaliyya is an independent ezine produced by ASI (Arab Studies Institute), the umbrella organization that produces Arab Studies Journal and runs the Documentary Film Collective, Quilting Point . Arab Studies Journal
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) - Georgetown University
Blog | Middle East Institute
By Nurhidayahti Mohammad Miharja On 6 April 2012, MEI was pleased to host a panel discussion on “China and the Middle East: Implications of a Rising Political and Economic Relationship.” Wu Bingbing, an associate professor in the Department of Arabic Language and Culture at Peking University, Dr. Bo Zhiyue, Senior Research Fellow at NUS’ East Asia [...] Posted in Blog , Breaking News Tagged Abdulkhaleq Abdulla , China , Iran , Middle East , oil , oil sanctions , Syria , Syrian uprising , Wu Bingbing MEI recently created a Vimeo page on which many of our lectures and other events may be viewed.Marc Lynch | FOREIGN POLICY
I am delighted to announce the official publication of my book The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East (PublicAffairs). The seeds of the book can be found in my very first response to the Tunisian protests, written on January 5, 2011 , which rooted them in the "wages of Arab decay" and predicted far more unrest to come . The Arab Uprising offers a necessarily preliminary but hopefully stimulating interpretation of the meaning of the uprisings, what they have accomplished, how they have reshaped power politics and political norms in the Middle East, and their implications for American foreign policy.Le 29 mars, Claude Guéant et Alain Juppé ont publié un communiqué commun : « A la demande du président de la République, Nicolas Sarkozy, le Gouvernement a décidé d’interdire l’entrée sur le territoire français de quatre personnalités étrangères invitées au congrès de l’Union des Organisations Islamiques de France (UOIF) qui se tiendra au Bourget du 6 au 9 avril 2012. Ainsi, Akrima Sabri, Ayed Bin Abdallah Al Qarni, Safwat Al Hijazi, Abdallah Basfar se sont (...)
Nouvelles d'Orient - Les blogs du Diplo
MERIP Home | Middle East Research and Information Project
On January 7, under a clear chill sky, the monthly culture festival al-Fann Midan (Art Is a Square) took place in Cairo’s ‘Abdin plaza. In the sunny esplanade facing the shuttered former royal palace, spectators cheered a succession of musical acts, took in a display of cartoons and caricatures, and wandered from tables selling homemade jewelry to others handing out the literature of the Revolutionary Socialists or the centrist Islamist party al-Wasat.Jadaliyya
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