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Source: IRIN
| Date: 13/04/2009 |
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BEIRUT, 13
April 2009 (IRIN) - Rights and labour groups say almost all
the estimated 300,000 Syrians working in Lebanon have no
official status, often endure dangerous conditions, and earn
about US$300 a month doing jobs shunned by most Lebanese.
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Source:The Independent | Date:
07/04/2009 |
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Obama wants to say : Save Us Iran |
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Source: Aleppous Editorial | Date:
21/03/2009 |
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Nothing is new in Obama’s
message to the Iranian Leadership and people . We can only
conclude that The Americans are in the corner and need a
help from
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A light shining into darkness:An
exhibition about a 16th-century shah offers a brilliant
corrective to negative perceptions of Iran |
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Source: Tim Adams | Date:
24/02/2009 |
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Towards the end of last year, I went to Iran
with Neil MacGregor, irrepressible director of the British
Museum, and the curators of this stunning exhibition. It
felt like a quest of sorts,
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Analysis: Turkey's shift toward Iran,
Syria is no short-term blip |
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Source: JONATHAN SPYER , THE
JERUSALEM POST | Date: 20/02/2009 |
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Last weekend, a conference held under the
title "Gaza the victory" took place at hotel near Istanbul's
Ataturk airport. The conference brought 200 Sunni clerics
and activists together with senior, Damascus-based Hamas
officials.
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Source: AP | Date:
11/04/2009 |
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The first line of his first
blog from Tehran in September 2006 asks: "What is freedom?"
Omidreza Mirsayafi answered his own question. "I don't
know," he wrote, "but I know someday I will see its shadow
falling on my land."
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Source:The New York Times | Date:
13/03/2009 |
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WASHINGTON — The United States is seeking new
supply routes for the war in Afghanistan that would bypass
Russia, and has even had logistics experts review overland
roads through Iran that might be used by NATO allies,
according to military planners and Pentagon officials.
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Source: AP | Date:
06/03/2009 |
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VIENNA – The EU and
Syria
are engaged in a tug-of-war over an intercepted ship
suspected of transporting explosives from
Iran to
Palestinian militants in Gaza, European diplomats say.
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Source: Nadim Houry | Date:
24/02/2009 |
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President Bashar al-Assad of Syria may be
feeling the effects of President Obama's promised "change".
After years of US-imposed isolation, Assad has received two
US Congressional delegations since Obama became president,
plus a visit from John Kerry, the new chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee.
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Source: Reuters | Date:
21/02/2009 |
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DAMASCUS, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The Iraqi
government plans to speed up multibillion dollar energy
projects with Syria that would help end tension between the
two neighbours, Iraq's first ambassador to Syria in almost
30 years said on Friday.
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Source: IRIN
| Date: 13/04/2009 |
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BEIRUT, 13
April 2009 (IRIN) - Rights and labour groups say almost all
the estimated 300,000 Syrians working in Lebanon have no
official status, often endure dangerous conditions, and earn
about US$300 a month doing jobs shunned by most Lebanese.
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Source: AP | Date:
11/04/2009 |
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The first line of his first
blog from Tehran in September 2006 asks: "What is freedom?"
Omidreza Mirsayafi answered his own question. "I don't
know," he wrote, "but I know someday I will see its shadow
falling on my land."
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Source:The Independent | Date:
07/04/2009 |
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Obama wants to say : Save Us Iran |
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Source: Aleppous Editorial | Date:
21/03/2009 |
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Nothing is new in Obama’s
message to the Iranian Leadership and people . We can only
conclude that The Americans are in the corner and need a
help from
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Source:The New York Times | Date:
13/03/2009 |
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WASHINGTON — The United States is seeking new
supply routes for the war in Afghanistan that would bypass
Russia, and has even had logistics experts review overland
roads through Iran that might be used by NATO allies,
according to military planners and Pentagon officials.
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Source: AP | Date:
06/03/2009 |
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VIENNA – The EU and
Syria
are engaged in a tug-of-war over an intercepted ship
suspected of transporting explosives from
Iran to
Palestinian militants in Gaza, European diplomats say.
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A light shining into darkness:An
exhibition about a 16th-century shah offers a brilliant
corrective to negative perceptions of Iran |
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Source: Tim Adams | Date:
24/02/2009 |
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Towards the end of last year, I went to Iran
with Neil MacGregor, irrepressible director of the British
Museum, and the curators of this stunning exhibition. It
felt like a quest of sorts,
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Source: Nadim Houry | Date:
24/02/2009 |
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President Bashar al-Assad of Syria may be
feeling the effects of President Obama's promised "change".
After years of US-imposed isolation, Assad has received two
US Congressional delegations since Obama became president,
plus a visit from John Kerry, the new chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee.
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Source: Reuters
| Date: 21/02/2009 |
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DAMASCUS, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The Iraqi
government plans to speed up multibillion dollar energy
projects with Syria that would help end tension between the
two neighbours, Iraq's first ambassador to Syria in almost
30 years said on Friday.
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Analysis: Turkey's shift toward Iran,
Syria is no short-term blip |
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Source: JONATHAN SPYER ,
THE JERUSALEM POST | Date: 20/02/2009 |
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Last weekend, a conference held under the
title "Gaza the victory" took place at hotel near Istanbul's
Ataturk airport. The conference brought 200 Sunni clerics
and activists together with senior, Damascus-based Hamas
officials.
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Source: NY Times | Date:
20/02/2009 |
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By
ROBERT F. WORTH
MARAJ, Lebanon
— For 25 years, Ali al-Jarrah managed to live on both
sides of the bitterest divide running through this
region. To friends and neighbors,
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Source: Matthew
B. Stannard,ٍSan
Francisco Chronicles | Date: 18/02/2009 |
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As President Obama's foreign policy team
tries to make lemonade out of the diplomatic lemons it has
inherited around the world, one region could represent
low-hanging fruit: the Khyber Pass linking Pakistan with
Afghanistan.
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A COMING POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE? |
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Source: News Wire | Date:
17/02/2009 |
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Chicago, IL - Banned book by
award-winning author and university professor Aladdin
Elaasar is released in the USA. "THE LAST PHARAOH:
MUBARAK AND THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE OF EGYPT IN THE
VOLATILE MID EAST" was banned in Egypt and Arab
countries after
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Source: CBs
| Date: 17/02/2009 |
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British author Geraldine Bedell says her
upcoming book has been banned in the United Arab Emirates,
and she was dropped from a literary festival in Dubai
because her novel contains references to homosexuality and
was deemed critical of Islam.
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Source: Reuters | Date:
15/02/2009 |
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Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin
may have felt it as a sign of the times that he was among
the last at Rome's Excelsior hotel to see the closing
statement from this weekend's meeting of global
policymakers.
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Source: AP
| Date: 15/02/2009 |
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CAIRO – Abu Essam's footsteps echo loudly as
he walks through the narrow alleys of Damascus' old city.
Around him in 1930s
Syria,
tall stone buildings block the scorching sun.
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Source: AP
| Date: 03/02/2009 |
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During back-to-back summits in recent days,
tiny Qatar displayed some big mood swings.
First the Persian Gulf emirate
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Musharaf to be a Middle East Scholar
by an offer by US organization in Washington DC |
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Source: UPI | Date:
03/02/2009 |
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Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf
has been offered a job in Washington leading the Middle East
Institute, sources said.
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Source: Abdus Sattar
Ghazali | Date:
03/02/2009 |
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In a bid to repair relations with the Muslim
world that were damaged under the Bush administration,
President Barack Obama told the Muslim world Tuesday that
Americans are not your enemy. In an interview with Al-Arabiya
TV channel, Obama said:
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