country had followed through on promises to dismantle large sections of its nuclear program.
Seven Iranians, either convicted or charged with breaking American embargoes, were released in the prisoner swap, and 14 others were removed from international wanted lists.
Iran sanctions are lifted after coming to an agreement with the U.S. and E.U. Iran gained control of 100 billion in frozen assets and dismantled a large part of its nuclear program. A prisoner swap took place, releasing American citizens from Iran as well as 7 Iranians being imprisoned in Washington.
Documents showcasing proposed sanctions issued by President Obama. It was suggested that Obama pressure Iran by ordering this sanction in regards to their missile testing.
This article is about the facebook page that was made after the death of Khaled Mohamed. It offers a more specific example of a time when social media was used in a middle eastern revolution.
The affects that the tensions and terrorist attacks has on the tourism industry in Egypt are touched on in this article. The particular incident that happened about a month ago is mentioned in great detail, including the involvement of the Muslim Brotherhood and what that means in regards to moving forward.
Cyberattack plan against Iran if the nuclear deal fell through has in been the works since the Bush Administration. Implemented into Obama Administration in 2009, showcased how concered U.S. was about deal falling through.
It really frustrates me that the US is often very outspoken about rights, freedom and democracy. Yet time and time again, I have seen that politics are nothing more than a pursuit of interests. The US continues its "ambiguity" of action in Syria, essentially furthering the spread of chaos. Now Turkey, and important US ally is frustrated that the US has been siding with alleged Kurdish terrorist groups.
This article in 2015, describes what women face everyday on Egypt streets. Eman Helal often wears a gas mask and helmet when she photographs protests. She knowns that this protective gear provides her an extra level of security from men in public. It has been said that physical attacks on women by groups of men have increased in Egypt since the start of the Arab Spring.
Faced with a cash shortage in its so-called caliphate, the Islamic State group has slashed salaries across the region, asked Raqqa residents to pay utility bills in black market American dollars, and is now releasing detainees for a price of $500 a person. After America blew up Isis's money hideout, they have hit a skid with the money not coming in and the war still raging on.
The US was able to commit such detrimental airstrikes to ISIS currency storage facilities that the "caliphate" is now cutting salaries. Millions of their finances have been drained since this attack.
The boarded-up building sat vacant on a tattered block in San Francisco until a small New York developer and a Kuwaiti real estate partner snapped it up in April 2014, attracted by the proximity to Twitter Inc and other tech companies.
This article gives some detail as to who exactly the opposition of the Muslim Brotherhood is. It also provides information concerning how the opposition has gone about the attack the Brotherhood.
hero and a national treasure in the eyes of Egyptians.
Women saw her as an inspiration in their struggle for equal rights
women followed her exam
Egyptian women made advances in equality throughout the period of the monarchy
Gamal Abdel Nasser, women continued to advance, achieving positions in universities, Parliament and the senior judiciary.
22 Arab countries for discrimination in law, sexual harassment and the paucity of female political representation
women
Egypt’s tradition of moderate Islam recognized women’s rights and encouraged women to study and work.
woman’s job is to please her husband and provide offspring.
promote female genital mutilation
cover her body completely and may not study,
women started to wear the
cannot even leave the house without her husband’s permission.
control women’s sexuality.
Wahhabism has influenced all Islamic societies and movements, including Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.
until 2005 that sexual harassment became an organized form of retribution against Egyptian women
hijab
83 percent of women interviewed had been subjected to sexual harassment at least once, and that 50 percent experienced it on a daily basis.
When ultraconservative doctrine dehumanizes women, reducing them to objects, it legitimizes acts of sexual aggression against them.
many Egyptian women still went without head scarves, wearing modern Western-style dress, yet incidents of sexual harassment were rare. Now, with the spread of the hijab, harassm
The security apparatus paid thugs, known as “beltagiya,” to gang up on a woman attending a demonstration, tear off her clothes and molest her.
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Tahrir Square in Cairo, soldiers pulled a female protester’s clothes off and dragged her along the ground, stomping on her with their boots
victim of the attack became an icon for Egyptian women
mocked the victim, blaming her for not staying
in the home
During the revolution, millions of Egyptian women went out and bravely faced snipers’ bullets
rity.
President Mohamed Morsi’s later attempt to rewrite the Egyptian Constitution would also have removed the only female judge on the Supreme Constitutional Court.
They tried to overturn the law punishing doctors who carried out female genital mutilation, and refused to consider the marriage of minors as a form of human trafficking by claiming that Islam permitted a girl as young as 10 years old to be married.
The revolutionaries are fighting for equality
trying to strip women of their political and social rights and make them subject to men’s autho
10 female members of Parliament out of a total of 508
This article discusses how women have been treated differently since the beginning of time. Things began to change once women began to stand up for themselves in protests.
Women and girls as young as 11 have been systematically raped by fighters for the Islamic State, which has made sex slavery a pillar of its self-proclaimed caliphate. The New York Times interviewed 21 women and girls in Iraq who recently escaped Islamic State captivity, examined the group's communications and talked to terrorism and religious experts for a chilling report by Rukmini Callimachi, a correspondent who covers Islamic extremism.
Israel is willing to fight on its own and feels a massive betrayal from the United States after they worked out a deal with Iran. Feel abandoned and as if they have been left to fend for themselves in all of this.
Luis Martinez. The Algerian Civil War, 1990-1998. Translated by Jonathan Derrick. The CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xxi + 265 pp. $27.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-11996-2.