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Manon Latil

Abbas Seeks Greater Gaza Role for His Palestinian Authority - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Abbas Turkey

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  • Manon Latil on 08 Feb 09
     
    Abbas went to Turkey this week end. Erdogan wants Turkey to have a main role in the Middle East as a crisis-solver. Is now involved in the Schalit release negociations.
Ed Webb

Journalism is Not a Crime » More info on Phillip Rizk from KABOBfest - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 08 Feb 09 - Cached
  • On her blog, a friend of mine recently lambasted Egyptians for their failure to take to the streets like people in Turkey, Morocco, France and dozens of other countries. While I don’t feel the same way she does, I feel her frustration. What is happening to Philip Rizk is just a reminder of the harsh realties of life in Egypt. There is no way Mubarak and his people can maintain their alliances without a crushing iron fist - state of emergency.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 08 Feb 09
       
      The virtual public sphere clashes with the physical, state-controlled public sphere.
  • I’m curious to see how much media coverage this whole story will receive… So far, very few news outlets have picked it up.
Ed Webb

The Agenda - Broadcast - Lawrence Pintak | Zeynep Tufekci | Abbas Milani - 0 views

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Egypt protests #jan25 sidibouzid Tunisia middleeast television TV Pintak aljazeera jazeera

shared by Ed Webb on 10 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Ed Webb on 10 Feb 11
     
    Watch this - Pintak on Al Jazeera and Arabic satellite TV in general
Erica Kepski

Police attack Bahrain protest site - 0 views

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protests

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  • Erica Kepski on 17 Feb 11
     
    Pro-reform protesters have taken to the streets of Manama since Monday, apparently inspired by the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
Ed Webb

Forces Rout Protesters From Bahrain Square - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Bahrain protests

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  • There is little evidence that the Shiite-led protests here have an Iranian sponsor or flavor. In fact, they are at least as much about demands for a democratic government as about sectarianism.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 16 Mar 11
       
      A welcome clarification from NYT, which has tended to frame the protests in sectarian terms.
  • in the village of Sitra, a center of antimonarchy activism where the two men were killed, the mood was entirely different on Tuesday. Hundreds of young men, many armed with sticks, dominated the intersections and sought to confront dozens of policemen. Several truck drivers had placed their trucks in the middle of the main road to block the police who mostly stayed on the outskirts shooting tear gas canisters.
  • the day after your defense minister came here, the Saudi troops came in. What is the United States doing to end this situation?
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  • The demonstrators still chant “peaceful, peaceful” but some now also carry sticks of wood and steel
Ed Webb

Saudi Troops Enter Bahrain to Put Down Unrest - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Bahrain KSA US protests democratization

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  • Saudi Arabia has been watching uneasily as Bahrain’s Shiite majority has staged weeks of protests against a Sunni monarchy, fearing that if the protesters prevailed, Iran, Saudi Arabia’s bitter regional rival, could expand its influence and inspire unrest elsewhere.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 15 Mar 11
       
      NB that much western coverage has framed the Bahrain uprising (and indeed the Saudi protests) in terms that fit this Saudi interpretation of events: Sunni v Shi'ite, and by proxy Saudi v Iran. A more persuasive framing would be in class terms in both cases, exploited versus ruling class; or in more straightforwardly political terms, democrats versus tyrants. Consider whose interests the sectarian framing serves.
  • This is an occupation
  • This may prolong the conflict rather than put an end to it, and make it an international event rather than a local uprising
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  • The Gulf Cooperation Council was clearly alarmed at the prospect of a Shiite political victory in Bahrain, fearing that it would inspire restive Shiite populations in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to protest as well. The majority of the population in Saudi Arabia’s eastern provinces, where the oil is found, is Shiite, and there have already been small protests there.
  • Political analysts said that it was likely that the United States did not object to the deployment in part because it, too, saw a weakened monarchy as a net benefit to Iran at a time when the United States wants to move troops out of Iraq, where Iran has already established an influence.
  • Bahrain’s opposition groups issued a statement: “We consider the entry of any soldier or military machinery into the Kingdom of Bahrain’s air, sea or land territories a blatant occupation.”
Ed Webb

Reaction to Obama's Mideast Speech in Arab Capitals Is Muted and Mixed - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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speech Egypt Arabs media Obama diplomacy publicdiplomacy

shared by Ed Webb on 21 May 11 - No Cached
  • many people said they were too busy with their own popular struggles to pay much attention to words from Washington
  • there was no mention of Saudi Arabia, perhaps the most powerful conservative influence on the region and a close American ally. Mr. Obama said that Iran may have sought to capitalize on the unrest in another ally, Bahrain, they noted, but he failed to mention that Saudi Arabia and other gulf countries had intervened there to crush the revolt
  • “We’ve had long experience with American policy in the region, and we don’t trust Obama’s call for change in Syria,” said Abdel Majid Manjouni, head of the opposition Socialist Democratic Arab Union Party in Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city. “Only the Syrian people can impose change, not the powers abroad.”
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