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Tuesday, 21 Feb, 2012
TV weathermen have a cosy life in Egypt – a country where the climate is as predictable as a Russian UN veto.
The wind, for instance, which blows upstream along the Nile for nine days out of ten, is so obliging that the ancient hieroglyph for travelling north or south simply showed a boat with its sails full or furled.
If only the politics was so simple. Take the forthcoming presidential election – a poll which, if you buy in to all the pre-match hype – will usher in the first de...
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Monday, 20 Feb, 2012
The lingering tension between Sudan, and the newest state in Africa, South Sudan has escalated in recent days. Oil-rich South Sudan has shut down its production of crude oil, and is unlikely to resume production for months, as a result of the stalemate reached by the two countries over how to share the oil proceeds.
South Sudan became independent in 2011, until which point the region was producing 260,000 barrels of oil per day. When the country achieved independence, one of the main poin...
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Monday, 13 Feb, 2012
On Sunday , the Arab League called on the United Nations to pass a resolution on sending a joint UN-Arab peacekeeping force to Syria, in response to mounting violence in the co...
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Thursday, 9 Feb, 2012
The Palestinian Authority (PA) power-sharing agreement brokered in Doha on Monday comes at an unfortunate time in Middle Eastern affairs. While all ink is reserved for the cris...
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Wednesday, 8 Feb, 2012
The young football supporter looked like a Napoleonic foot-soldier he strode through the heaving streets of downtown Cairo.
His left eye was covered with a fresh gauze – a...
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Tuesday, 7 Feb, 2012
In the last few months, Kuwait’s political system has been standing on the brink of instability. In uncharacteristic events for the country, a number of anti-government prote...
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While Arabs throughout the MENA region are taking to the streets to demand control over their own destinies, Texas Representative Ron Paul and his supporters in America are fom...
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Wednesday, 1 Feb, 2012
A number of recent reports on Libya have highlighted the astonishing change the country is currently undergoing. Perhaps no example is more demonstrative of the break with the ...
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Tuesday, 31 Jan, 2012
As the crowds of protesters waited outside Mustafa Mahmoud mosque in western Cairo last week, the face of a famous terrorist could be seen lurking amid the throng.
Guy Fawke...
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Wednesday, 25 Jan, 2012
President Ali Abdullah Saleh has finally left Yemen, and now the Yemenis along with the international community must make sure that he does not return.
According to media re...
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