Articles written by: Daniel F. Rivera Gómez
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Tuesday, 6 Mar, 2012
The World Tourism Organization recently reported that tourist operations worldwide increased by 4.4 percent in 2011 and forecasts around one billion tourists will be traveling in all continents in 2012. While last year was one of the best on record for global tourism, the tourist industry in the Arab world has lost billions of dollars since the Arab Spring began in Tunisia last year.
The optimistic global forecast may help tourist industries in the Middle East and North Africa to recover from...
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Monday, 24 Jan, 2011
Until clashes at the Saharan refugee camp near Al-Ayoun in November, Morocco’s conflict with residents of the Western Sahara, known as Sahrawis and represented by the Polisario Front, had been a mostly domestic affair. By maintaining an upper hand over the inhabitants of the area, Rabat had generally managed to contain the spread of news from the area that could potentially damage Morocco’s image. Similar to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, the Moroccan government f...
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Wednesday, 8 Sep, 2010
The intense diplomatic activity that is taking place at different levels in Washington, Paris, Tel Aviv, Riyadh, Beirut and Damascus is a clear sign that something is afoot in ...
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