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Middle East
Travel Pod:
Jump to the full entry & travel map Perth, Western Australia, AustraliaDear AllJust a quick post to say we've arrived safely in Shiraz and have had a pleasant i (Read More)
News Network:
Conservative Politics News Network
washingtonpost.com - Jim Hoagland (washingtonpost.com):
Few things are as dangerous in the Middle East as well-intentioned outsiders. They invariably bring unintended consequences upon those they would guide to a better life. Ask Job. Or consider the case of Mahmoud Abbas, whose h (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
The Cartoons that Shook the World, by Jytte Klausen (Yale, £20)In what deserves to become the definitive account of the Danish cartoon controversy of 2005-6, none of the major actors comes out looking too good. Certainly not (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Once a place to escape to, the suburbs became a byword for conservatism. Owen Hatherley on a surprising exhibition at the London Transport MuseumA couple of years ago, I temporarily moved out of south-east London, where I hav (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Real Estate:
BOUNDARIES: Logan Circle is in the Northwest quadrant of D.C., sandwiched between Dupont Circle and Shaw. It is bounded on the west by the middle of 16th Street, on the east by 10th Street, on the south by M Street and on the (Read More)
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The Guardian:
Digital economy bill proposals receive welcome from music and film, but anger from ISPs and privacy campaignersThe government's planned crackdown on unlawful online filesharing has been attacked by privacy campaigners and int (Read More)
Huffington Post:
George Mitchell's job as Middle East Special Envoy has got to be terribly frustrating for a man whose life story has been one success after another.But the Israel-Palestine conflict tends to be a career destroyer. Former Sec (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
C4's Dispatches has been branded 'antisemitic', but surely Britain's Jewish community can cope with reasoned scrutiny?The serious charges levelled by critics at the Dispatches documentary investigating the UK pro-Israel lobby (Read More)
Gideon Rachman's Blog:
By Roula Khalaf, the FT’s Middle East editorIt was a distinctly un-Saudi affair. The traditionally cautious kingdom, careful to the point where its diplomatic initiatives must be guaranteed to succeed before they are even lau (Read More)
National Review Online:
EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact: kfsreprint@hearstsc.com, or phone 800-708-7311, ext. 246. (Read More)
Reuters: Private Equity:
SEOUL, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A consortium including a MiddleEast-based fund and a South Korean investment firm has beenpicked as a preferred buyer for a controlling stake in DaewooEngineering , a report said, in a deal expected (Read More)
Reuters: Private Equity:
SEOUL, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A consortium including a MiddleEast-based fund and an investment fund was picked as thepreferred buyer for a controlling stake in Daewoo Engineering, South Korea's MoneyToday reported on Friday. (Read More)
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Crooks and Liars:
Gene Lyons in Salon on the myriad forces that insist we can't afford health care, but just as strongly assure us that $6.73 trillion for the war in Afghanistan is perfectly doable. (That's $1 million per soldier, per year.) G (Read More)
The Guardian:
David Cesarani (A frisson of conspiracy, 18 November), is absolutely right that our investigation for Channel 4, Inside Britain's Israel Lobby, was followed by a deluge of pretty horrible antisemitic comment on a range of web (Read More)
The Guardian:
Who do you call when you want to call Europe? After five years of wrangling designed to deal with the Henry Kissinger question, the EU last night failed to provide a satisfactory answer. The first ever president of the Europe (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
In the space of a few minutes in Brussels , Cathy Ashton found herself catapulted into the international limelight as one of the world's most powerful women.It is a quite spectacular rise by any standards.Thirteen months ago (Read More)
www.msnbc.msn.com:
A famous Lebanese pop singer, known for her seductive dresses and provocative dancing, is now accused of singing a song with racist lyrics that compares black Egyptians to monkeys. Singer - Middle East - Lyrics - Music - (Read More)
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