An article by Fred Dardick for Canada Free Press (reproduced
here by the Campus Watch website, but presumably not for its academic merit) announces: “Obama is no friend of Israel”.
Among numerous other offences, the Obama administration is accused of suggesting – horror of...
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13th July 2009
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13th July 2009Yemeni forces yesterday dispersed a rally of 200 people in Aden who were demonstrating against the suspension of al-Ayyam newspaper, Reuters reports. About 15 of the paper’s employees were arrested during the rally. Established in the 1950s, al-Ayyam is Yemen’s oldest independent daily...
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12th July 2009Last April, Egypt became a worldwide laughing-stock when the Mubarak regime ordered a mass slaughter of pigs in the mistaken belief that this would keep swine flu at bay. Swine flu duly arrived – one victim being a young man whoreturned from Saudi Arabia with the disease after...
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12th July 2009Action by the Saudi religious police is being blamed for a double “honour” killing in the kingdom. Two sisters, identified as Reem, 21, and Nouf, 19, were arrested by the mutawwa on July 2 after being caught “in suspicious circumstances with two unrelated men”. They were...
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11th July 2009English is a wonderfully flexible language. We make up new words all the time, often combining bits borrowed from Latin and Greek: photography (light+drawing), submarine (under+sea) etc. In Arabic this is much more difficult because the whole language is based on a system of three-consonant word...
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11th July 2009Four members of the same family in a pick-up truck – a father, two sons and a son-in-law – were ambushed by gunmen in Radfan, southern Yemen, in the early hours of Friday while apparently on the way to open up their sweet shop. Three died immediately, the fourth was seriously wounded and...
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10th July 20091. A 24-year-old Jordanian man killed his unmarried sister after she became pregnant. He "stabbed her 10 times in different parts of her body with a dagger in front of a group of people before handing himself over to police and confessing to the crime," a police spokesman said....
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10th July 2009No idea why I like this picture, but I do. Definitely, I do. Posted by Brian Whitaker, 10 July 2009
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10th July 2009A report from Saba, the official Yemeni news agency, on the 15th anniversary of the north’s victory in the 1994 war: Subversives attacked Tuesday security forces and people in Yemen's eastern province of Hadramout killing a citizen and injuring two soldiers, the state-run 26sep.net ...
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9th July 2009I’ve received an email from Corporal Timothy Reece, a linguist in the British Army. He has been looking at my list of
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9th July 2009Here we go again. While Egyptian protesters chant that “Germans are the enemies of God”, Yemenis are venting their wrath against France over the Yemenia plane crash. A headline in the Yemen Observer claims the Airbus was “possibly” hit by a French missile (scroll down...
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8th July 2009Back to the subject of blogging. The recent report from the Internet and Democracy Project at Harvard is well worth a look. As far as I know it’s the first detailed study of the Arab blogosphere. The researchers found about 35,000 blogs in Arabic, which sounds a lot but when you...
