Recently added articles from The Middle East:
Comment.(women's rights control in Cuba, Sudan, Egypt and Iran)
Oct 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If ever there was a case of one step forward and two steps back, this was it. First, we hear the heartening news that Iran has appointed its first woman government minister since 1979. Then, just days later we learn that--along with Egypt, Sudan and ...
The view from Islamabad.(Emails & Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I do not support Al Qaeda and abhor the attacks of 9/11 and the others that followed. I do not think violence is an answer to the problems of our region. However, do other readers feel, like me, that there is a growing antipathy towards western ...
"99" superheroes comic characters are going to be animated.(Compass 10/2009: News and views from around the world)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Naif Al Mutawa, a Kuwait-based entrepreneur, was troubled by people's perceptions of Islam. He felt they identified it with Osama bin Laden, a war-ravaged Iraq and a bombed-out Afghanistan. He wanted to show people that Islam was a modern religion that ...
This month in history.(Compass 10/2009: News and views from around the world)
Oct 01, 2009 ... 1945 On 24 October 1945, the United Nations Organisation was born. It was formally inaugurated during a short ceremony at the US State Department in Washington. A total of 29 countries ratified the United Nations Charter that was signed by 50 nations on 26 June in San ...
Portsmouth Football Club--"Pompey"--bought by Sulaiman Al Fahim.(Compass 10/2009: News and views from around the world)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009 ... Devondale Investments, the owners of Portsmouth FC, and Al Fahim Asia Associates (AAA), a company fully owned by Sulaiman Al Fahim, a Dubai-based businessman, have reached an agreement whereby AAA became the sole owner of the club in late August. In a statement, he said he "welcomes this ...