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Extension of grace period is essential
Source : Saudi Gazette  
Date : 2013-06-12
Author : Ali Al-Ghamdi
Nobody wishes to live in a chaotic situation. Instead, with the exception of some abnormal or reckless people, everyone wants to live in a situation where the law prevails....
We can't just say 'arm Syria rebels' – we must be clear what it means
Source : The Peninsula  
Date : 2013-06-12
Author : Frank Ledwidge
With Syrian forces reported to be moving on areas around Syria’s second city, Aleppo, the cause of so-called liberal interventionism appears to be receiving a boost....
Free internet? Yes, no or maybe
Source : Kuwait Times  
Date : 2013-06-12
Author : Labeed Abdal
Many debates are currently raging about reaching an international agreement to regulate the internet. There were two major e-camps in the debate....
Expats Take It All
Source : Kuwait Times  
Date : 2013-06-12
Author : Muna Al-Fuzai
It is really becoming awkward and certainly not laudatory these days to point a finger towards the expatriates, blaming them for the so-called demographic imbalance in Kuwait....
Dialogue in the doldrums
Source : Gulf Today  
Date : 2013-06-12
Author : Musa A Keilani
A US and Russian-backed initiative to end the crisis in Syria was supposed to have been launched this month and was expected to be a big game-changer. Now it...
Obama, isolationist in Syria
Source : Asharq Al-Awsat  
Date : 2013-06-11
Author : Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed
Ever since Barack Obama took office some five years ago, he was compared to former President Jimmy Carter, and was described to be identical to him....
On America's Defeat in Qusayr
Source : Al Hayat  
Date : 2013-06-11
Author : Elias Harfoush
This is the result of the world being led by one major country: one Syrian town has been shredded to pieces; dead bodies are scattered in the streets; and families...
The Syrian chessboard
Source : Asharq Al-Awsat  
Date : 2013-06-11
Author : Abdullah Al-Otaibi
The comparison of international struggles to a chessboard was first used by Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's National Security Advisor, in his book The Grand Chessboard. The expression is a fitting...
Colvin’s Courage and the Luxury of Arab Media!
Source : Al Hayat  
Date : 2013-06-11
Author :
I recently participated in the Arab Media Forum in Dubai where I met with colleagues and friends from the media sector. They came from all the Arab countries to gather...
Iraq Oil Outlook Governed by Relationship between Baghdad and Kurdistan
Source : Al Hayat  
Date : 2013-06-11
Author : Walid Khadduri
One of the key problems blighting Iraq lies in the lack of accord among the main communities of Iraq, namely, the Shias, Sunnis, and Kurds. In 2005, Iraq adopted a...
Why aren't we satisfied with our education system?
Source : Asharq Al-Awsat  
Date : 2013-06-11
Author : Amal Al-Hazzani
As the end of the academic year draws closer in the Arab world, a question arises as to why satisfaction with the level of education is decreasing in both schools...
Stop wasting money, do justice for citizens
Source : Arab Times  
Date : 2013-06-11
Author : Ahmed Al-Jarallah
Some ministers and lawmakers raise slogans such as, 'The crazy budget' and ‘The budget is in danger' every time the day for approving the national budget draws near or when...
Syria is bleeding to death and the West stands by
Source : The Peninsula  
Date : 2013-06-11
Author : Nick Cohen
Sceptics about humanitarian intervention in Syria hit you with what they regard as a killer question: "Where do you stop?" If the "international community", such as it is, tries to...
Iran, Syria and Hezbollah are out of the fold
Source : Saudi Gazette  
Date : 2013-06-11
Author : Khaled M. Batarfi
My Shiite friend was heartbroken. He pointed to a recent statement by a senior religious scholar. A well-known sheikh used our anger over Hezbollah support of the Syrian forces against...
It's the foreign policy, stupid
Source : Saudi Gazette  
Date : 2013-06-11
Author : David Dumke
And so the drift continues for American foreign policy in the Middle East. What could a decade ago be explained as the confused missteps of the world’s lone superpower...
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