Posts Tagged ‘Egypt’
The Succession System in Saudi Arabia and Egypt
MIDEAST: Succession Issues Face Key U.S. Allies IPS News | Analysis by Helena Cobban* WASHINGTON, Jul 12 (IPS) - Two key U.S. allies in the Arab world, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, are now both facing succession crises that may absorb, or even split, their political elites. This promises a period of political unpredictability ahead in both [...]
Le Monde: The Diplomatic “Philosophy” of Barack Obama
Translated from the French LE MONDE | 13.07.09 | 15h26 • Updated 13.07.09 | 15h26 WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT His advisers speak less of an Obama doctrine than an Obama "philosophy". With the Accra speech delivered on Saturday July 11 in Ghana before a Parliament that was turbulent, sometimes facetious, with opinions expressed loudly as [...]
German Media Ignore Racist Stabbing of Woman, while Criticising Muslim Grief and Anger
Egyptians cry racism in woman's slaying in Germany By MAGGIE MICHAEL CAIRO (AP) — Egyptians are horrified by the brutal slaying of a pregnant Muslim woman stabbed repeatedly inside a German courtroom, calling what they see as a lack of outrage in Germany evidence of racism and anti-Islamic sentiment. On Monday, thousands of mourners [...]
Critical Notes on Obama’s Cairo Speech: Imperialism with a Human Face
In pleasant contrast to his predecessor, Barack Obama is a cultured, sensitive, educated, well-mannered man and these personal qualities were on ample display and much appreciated in Cairo on Thursday. But the Muslim world on whom the government of the United States has declared a unilateral, indiscriminate, unconventional war of collective [...]
L’Express on Obama’s Cairo Speech
Rough translation from the French: Jewish associations divided after Obama's speech By Jim Jarrassé, published on 04/06/2009 18:40 If pacifists applaud the "rebalancing of the U.S. position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," the CRIF is more measured. A Palestinian state and the freezing of Israeli settlements. This is essentially what [...]
“Cast aside religion” — Obama Advised
Discipline Israel, negotiate with Iran, but first, cast aside religion By John Stanton Online Journal Contributing Writer Enough of the tail wagging the dog! This has been going on for too many years. The US must publicly keep a close hold on Israel as it openly works with Iran. We must not let Israel set policy for the USA. (more...)
Great Expectations: Obama in Cairo
Obama's forthcoming (4 June) speech in Cairo has already raised such hopes that disappointment is inevitable. Based on a close reading of his Turkey speech, an earlier post (Good Islam, Bad Islam) had concluded that beneath the whipped cream of Obama's oratory, his underlying reading of Islam and Muslims (he didn't seem to differentiate between [...]
