Articles tagged with: protests
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Friday, 17 May, 2013
BAGHDAD, Asharq Al-Awsat— Leading Iraqi Sunni cleric, Abdul Malik Al-Saadi, has accused some parties of putting pressure on the demonstrators to return to their homes before prospective negotiations with the government begins.
In a public statement, Saadi said: “Some governors and directors of religious endowments, especially in Al-Anbar—using my initiative to form a committee for dialogue with the government as an excuse—are putting pressure on the preachers and protesters to end...
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Wednesday, 17 Apr, 2013
LONDON, Asharq Al-Awsat—Crowds assembled in Westminster and along the Strand early on Wednesday morning to witness Margaret Thatcher’s funeral procession. Her coffin left The Chapel of St Mary Undercroft in a hearse at 10:00 BST on a foggy morning in the UK capital.
The hearse made its way along Whitehall, past Downing Street and along the Strand and on to St Clement Danes Church in Aldwych, the central church of the RAF. At the church the coffin was transferred to a gun carriage draw...
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Friday, 29 Mar, 2013
The Atlantic magazine’s recent profile of Jordan’s King Abdullah has embarrassed the royal court and unleashed a wave of criticism against the monarchy. Despite the embarra...
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Thursday, 14 Feb, 2013
The downfall of Mubarak and the election of Mohammed Morsi as president of Egypt has brought the Muslim Brotherhood to the pinnacle of political power in the Arab world’s most po...
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Tuesday, 29 Jan, 2013
The recent elections in Jordan, held amidst a boycott by the main opposition parties, have fuelled talk of a missed opportunity. The argument goes that a toothless parliament, ...
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Thursday, 20 Sep, 2012
For the past week the Islamic world has been seething with rage after an amateurish video that mocks the life of the prophet Muhammad and has left twenty-eight people dead, inc...
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Wednesday, 19 Sep, 2012
The first thing to do when you find yourself in a hole, so goes an old saying, is to stop digging. And yet, scorched by an inferno of Arab outrage, Washington refuses to deal hone...
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Thursday, 13 Sep, 2012
Unnamed American officials have briefed the AFP news agency that Tuesday’s attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, which fell on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks...
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Thursday, 30 Aug, 2012
Last month, Egypt saw renewed protests following the election of Morsi, with millions of Egyptians having high expectations from the new president in the aftermath of January 25th ...
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The string of high level defections from the Syrian government continued into this weekend, when the embattled regime’s Prime Minister, Riyad Farid Hijab, a Sunni, in a secretive...
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