Posted by seumasach on November 4, 2014
2nd November, 2014
TUNIS – French philosopher Bernard Henri Levy was expelled from Tunisia Saturday night only 24 hours after his arrival in the country.
He was supposed to stay in Tunisia till Thursday.
His visit had provoked a storm of protests in the country. The trade union federation (UGTT) called Saturday for his expulsion from the country denouncing his role in “inciting anarchy and encouraging civil wars and terrorism in the Arab World”.
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Posted by seumasach on June 9, 2014
Did you face difficulty in bringing together the Libyan army again?
I didn’t experience any difficulty in calling military members. As soon as they heard the call, they went in large numbers to various sites in Libya. It is difficult for the government to do this kind of thing.
Egypt and Algeria are brotherly states, and cooperation between us and Algeria will be quick and easy.
The reintegration of the Libyan army and the role of Egypt and Algeria are key to re-establishment of Libyan state
June, 2014
In the second part of an interview from within his stronghold at an air force base [in eastern Libya], Khalifa Hifter, the commander of “Operation Dignity,” spoke about the border with Egypt and securing it. Hifter said he agrees with the method chosen by Egypt [to secure the border], even if it reached the point of a military strike within the borders of Egypt’s western neighbor.
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Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2014
Nicola Nasser
21st March, 2014
As the Arab Spring spread in 2011, some analysts thought Saudi Arabia had what it would take for full-scale revolt.
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Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2014
TEHRAN (FNA)- The nearly 100-year-old tribal struggle between Al-Saud dynasty from Anza and Al-Thani dynasty from Tamim in the region of Najd in the Arabian Peninsula, has become part of the fault line of the strategic axis of the world’s politics.
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Posted by seumasach on March 10, 2014
Arab states withdraw ambassadors from Qatar in protest at ‘interference’
5th March, 2014
In a rare public spat that has highlighted deep political divisions in the Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have all withdrawn their ambassadors from Qatar in protest at Doha’s “interference in their internal affairs”.
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Posted by seumasach on August 26, 2013
26th August, 2013
Thousands of Bahrainis were allowed to march peacefully outside Manama calling for democratic reforms on Friday, 10 days after police cracked down on scattered protests organised by an online group inspired by recent demonstrations in Egypt.
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Posted by seumasach on August 20, 2013
20th August, 2013
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – A newly announced Palestinian youth movement, said to be based in the Gaza Strip, released a statement and a video Sunday calling on all residents of Gaza to protest on Nov. 11.
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Posted by seumasach on August 8, 2013
Pierre Khalaf
29th July, 2013
De la Syrie à l’Égypte en passant par la Tunisie et la Libye, les peuples arabes se soulèvent contre la terreur des Frères musulmans et des autres mouvements islamistes extrémistes, qui ont volé leurs révolutions avec l’appuie de l’Occident et d’Israël et tentent d’étouffer leurs aspirations à coups de massacres, d’assassinats politiques, de violences physiques et de terrorisme intellectuel.
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Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2013
Tamarod’ to challenge Ennahda’s constitution
TUNIS – The spokesman of Tunisia’s movement Tamarod, Arabic for rebellion, Mohamed Bennour presented on Wednesday, in an interview broadcast on radio Mosaique FM, the main objectives of this movement.
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Posted by seumasach on February 12, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
9th February, 2013
It was an extraordinary week in the politics of the Middle East and it ended appropriately by being rounded off with a reality check lest imaginations ran riot.
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Posted by seumasach on October 16, 2012
9th October, 2012
The Muslim Brotherhood organized a large demonstration in Amman, on Friday, 5 October 2012, at the end of prayer. At first convened to prod the monarchy towards transformation, it soon rose to near-insurgency levels to the, by now classic, cry of “The people want the regime to go!“.
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