The revolutionary wave has not reached Riyadh. The Saudi authorities are getting ready for only the second elections in the Kingdom’s history, and women are still shut out.
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A R A B I C A ارابيكا SIGNS AND SLOGANS *This Al Jazeera report looks at the importance of signs and slogans in ongoing Arab revolutions. One placard from Benghazi, Libya shows a chess queen knocking the king, with the head of Gaddafi, off the chessboard. It’s part of what looks like a warehouse […]
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Middle East Stories To Watch In 2011
As the region’s perennial conflicts burn on, other emerging trends and turns of events will grab our attention this year King Abdullah of Saudia Arabia (Mohammad Bahareth) EYES INSIDE – THE MIDDLE EAST The US-Iran showdown, the terminally unresolved Palestinian question, Egyptian elections and the ongoing fallout from the Wikileaks cables are sure to generate […]
On the hunt for new customers: German hospitals are increasingly turning to Russian, Middle Eastern and other wealthy patients from abroad high-tech heart monitoring equipment By Karen Merkel BERLIN – Inoperable. It’s probably the hardest word for any parents of a sick two-year-old girl to hear. In Russia, the doctors all agree that the young […]