Posts Tagged ‘ Middle East ’

I don’t know even one Arab who believed that President Obama’s speech "Remarks By The President On A New Beginning" at al-Azhar on June 4, 2009 actually represented a new beginning.  My experience of reactions amongst Muslims in general and Muslim Arabs in particular was neither Obama’s election or his speech had much effect....
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According to the Archbishop of Kirkuk (Iraq), one of the main driving forces behind the Synod, to save the Christian presence in the Muslim Middle East, a renewal of the identity of the original Church is needed: not as a cultural and "ethnic" group, but a mature adhesion to the faith. We need more...
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IRBIL – The Qandil Mountains in Iraqi Kurdistan have maintained a reputation for relative tranquility and stability in a diagonal belt across northern Iraq while much of the rest of the country has burned with sectarian nihilism and anti-occupation insurgency. Three years ago, the California public relations firm Russo Marsh & Rogers launched an...
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BAGHDAD, 14 October 2009 (IRIN) – In the late 1990s 22-year-old Manal Sabir Abdullah from Basra was diagnosed with lung cancer, from which she eventually died in 2004. "Her cancer was bizarre as none of our relatives had cancer before and she had never had bad health or harmful habits," said her husband, Hassan...
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ISTANBUL – Images of suburban Istanbul submerged by torrential floods have adorned the front pages of Turkey’s dailies over the past few weeks. The fallout from pictures of cars as boats and roads as rivers, has drowned out a potentially more pressing problem for the government in Ankara: the country’s growing water shortage problem....
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YUSUFIYA, Iraq (Reuters) – What was known as history’s fertile crescent, where lush farmland and abundant water gave rise to civilization, is today a dusty desert where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers crawl sluggishly toward the sea. Vast tracts of Iraqi farmland are cracked and barren, precious marshes have dried up and sandstorms blot out...
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توقع السفير الايراني في انقرة بهمن حسين بور ان يزداد حجم التبادل التجاري بين ايران وتركيا خلال الثلاث الى اربع سنوات المقبلة الى 20 مليار دولار في السنة. وقال السفير بور في تصريح صحفي اوردته وكالة مهر للانباء على هامش تفقده لجمارك بازركان وغوربلاغ على الحدود التركية الايرانية ان حجم التبادل...
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Next week, US troops will begin to pull out of Iraq. Where does that leave the country’s people, who are still reeling from decades of war? In Baghdad, Patrick Cockburn finds a nation facing drought, sectarian conflict and the scramble for oil riches On 30 June the last US troops will pull out of...
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Vatican City (AsiaNews) – The Pope prays everyday for peace in the Middle East especially for the Christians of Iraq. Benedict XVI himself said so, during a meeting this morning with Ignace Youssif III Younan, Patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians (in Lebanon), and members of the Synod of the Syro-Catholic Church. “I constantly...
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If great oratory is a prerequisite to peace, justice, and human rights, then President Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo, on June 4, shall be enough to cure every ill afflicting every Muslim nation. But since rhetoric never solved any real problem, one is left to question the wisdom behind Obama’s touted speech, clear or...
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