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COMMENT
Aug 01, 2008; Lancaster, Pat ... PAT LANCASTER THE WEST'S DEMONISATION of Saddam Hussein, when it eventually came, was swift and sure. In the capital cities of Europe and in Washington, the savage cruelties inflicted on the Iraqi people by their despotic president were well recorded over many years but, because it ...
Hopes for reconciliation rise
Aug 01, 2008; Frykberg, Mel ... MEL FRYKBERG reports from the Occupied Territories ISOLATED FROM THE outside world and divided from their compatriots in the West Bank, one and a half million Palestinians living in Gaza continue to battle against overwhelming odds for survival as the harsh Israeli and international ...
Islam's secret army?
Aug 01, 2008; Blanche, Ed ... Hizb-ut Tahrir, the transnational party whose declared goal is to establish an Islamic superstate, is causing growing concern in capital cities around the world, as ED BLANCHE reports from Beirut. FOR YEARS, WESTERN governments paid little heed to an Islamic organisation called Hizb-ut ...
A good excuse for a party
Aug 01, 2008; Darwish, Adel ... WHAT DO BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Arab League secretary general Amr Mousa and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have in common? Don't wait for a punchline, the three men have nothing in common, except perhaps the talent of playing songs of self-praise louder than noisy alarms ...
Gunning for the gunrunners
Aug 01, 2008; Blanche, Ed ... The arrest of three men who are allegedly the world's most notorious arms dealers may shed some light on their murky demi-monde in the Middle East. By Ed Blanche THREE MEN - an Israeli, a Russian and a Syrian - are behind bars in Moscow, Madrid and Bangkok. All are known as leading ...
The art of balance: The other side of the coin
Aug 01, 2008; Brown, Judith ... In response to Adel Darwish's article in the July issue of TME, where Israel's ambassador to the UK, Ron Prosor, spoke of how, he believes, UK media reporting of Israel has become less objective in recent years, DR. JUDITH BROWN, adviser to the organisation Arab Media Watch, looks at the issue ...
Iran's 'invisible man'
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Brigadier General who heads Tehran's covert operations in Iraq will mastermind revenge strikes if Iran is attacked. IF, AS IS threatened, the United States or Israel attacks Iran - and there are signs that a major strike may be likely before George W. Bush's term expires next January ...
Has Saudi Arabia found the answer?
Aug 01, 2008; Smith, Pamela Ann ... ELIE ELHADJ is among the Arab world's most respected, and controversial, bankers. Now retired following postings in New York, Philadelphia, London and Riyadh, he spoke to economic analyst PAMELA ANN SMITH about his recent research on water politics in Saudi Arabia and Syria, which is making an ...
The new interest in Algeria
Aug 01, 2008; Feller, Gordon ... ALGERIA'S RETURN TO better fortunes has been aided by high oil and gas prices that have been on the up and up since 2003. These funds have endowed Africa's third-largest economy with a surge in revenues and the means to start anew and run down debt. The market-oriented reforms launched by ...
Energy alternatives
Aug 01, 2008; Smith, Pamela Ann ... Can they make a significant difference? DOOMSDAY SCENARIOS OF the world's oil supplies reaching a peak and then declining have helped to fuel financial speculation in crude oil and driven prices to record highs. They have also helped to raise expectations that alternative sources of ...
Simple words portray horrors of Iraqi life
Aug 01, 2008; Dabrowska, Karen ... MUSTAFA JA'FAR'S EXHIBITION "Black Words In Red Ink" clearly illustrates that simplicity is the key to truth. The 56-year-old Iraqi artist, who has lived in exile since 1974, was deeply affected by constantly recurring words in news reports in the run up to the 2003 invasion of his ...
Abu Dhabi's Vision
Aug 01, 2008; Highet, Juliet ... ABU DHABI IS ON its way to becoming a global cultural destination, certainly a magnet for visitors to the Middle East, seeking more than to fry themselves on the beaches of Dubai - or shopping. As part of this initiative, The Khalili Family Trust offered a selection of over 500 breathtaking ...
Saudi Arabia: Bucking the global trend?
Aug 01, 2008; Siddiqi, Moin ... How resilient is growth in Saudi Arabia to a global downturn? The energy rich kingdom, endowed with one-fifth of the world's proven oil reserves, is in the midst of an investment-led boom that shows little evidence of being derailed by the credit crunch and ensuing slowdown in western (OECD) ...
DUBAI, THE VULNERABILITY OF SUCCESS
Aug 01, 2008; Rhodes, Fred ... DUBAI, THE VULNERABILITY OF SUCCESS By Christopher Davidson published by Hurst & Company ISBN 9781850658887 price £25.00 hardback Following a detailed history, Christopher M. Davidson presents an in-depth study of Dubai's post-oil development strategies and their implementation ....
RED ZONE: FIVE BLOODY YEARS IN BAGHDAD
Aug 01, 2008; Rhodes, Fred ... RED ZONE: FIVE BLOODY YEARS IN BAGHDAD By Oliver Poole published by Reportage Press ISBN 9780955830259 price £12.99 paperback In Red Zone: Five bloody years in Iraq, Oliver Poole describes daily life in a civil war. As the Daily Telegraph's Iraq correspondent, Poole arrived in Baghdad in ...
BEYOND REGIONALISM?
Aug 01, 2008; Rhodes, Fred ... BEYOND REGIONALISM? Edited by Cilja Hardens and Matteo Legrenzi published by Ashgate ISBN 9780754649939 price £55.00 hard back This volume offers theoretical models and approaches which are attuned to the new dynamics and contradictions of a wide range of regionalist projects in the ...
Bodybuilding in the Arab world
Aug 01, 2008; Vesely, Milan ... EARLIER THIS YEAR, some 50 bodybuilders from across the Middle East region participated in the inaugural Dubai International Bodybuilding Championships, a first for this Gulf state nation. Held in the Dubai World Trade Center under the patronage of Sheikh Rashid bin Hamdan Al Maktoum, the ...
Arab donors buy the limelight at the Rome food summit
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... FROM THOMAS LAND THE ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT Bank has raised $1.5bn to help the poorest countries cope with the savage current global rise in the price of food. Separately, Saudi Arabia alone has donated $500m and Kuwait $100m. The UAE has announced the establishment of an advanced ...
Humanitarian crisis escalates as sewage contaminates Gaza water
Aug 01, 2008; Frykberg, Mel ... Mel Frykberg reports from Gaza SRAEL'S CONTINUING BLOCKADE of the Gaza Strip is putting the health of a million-and-a-half Palestinians at risk and threatening the lives of the more vulnerable such as children and the elderly, as the quality of drinking water continues to decline due to ...
IRAN-EUROPE RELATIONS: Challenges and opportunities
Aug 01, 2008; Rhodes, Fred ... IRAN-EUROPE RELATIONS: Challenges and opportunities By Seyyed Hossein Mousavian published by Routledge ISBN 9780415447560 price $160.00 hardback Iran-Europe Relations provides an assessment, and history, of relations between Iran and Europe. With an account of their development since the ...