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Ed Webb

Egyptians reject inheritance of power | Al Jazeera Blogs - 0 views

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Egypt protest censorship succession

shared by Ed Webb on 22 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • The demonstrators on Tuesday did the unthinkable: publicly burning the pictures of Gamal Mubarak, son of the president, who is suspected of being groomed to succeed his father. The issue is so sensitive that security forces rushed to confiscate footage shot by the cameras of Al Jazeera and the BBC. Nevertheless, the news spread like wildfire and some still photographs made their way to cyberspace.
  • the old tactics of muzzling public opinion may not be as efficient anymore
Michael Fisher

How Iranians See Their Country - 0 views

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Iran Middle East NPR

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  • Michael Fisher on 18 Feb 09
     
    NPR discussion about Iranian attitudes toward their country. Topics included common American misperceptions about Iran, the role of Iranian youth in domestic politics, and Iran's electoral process as it prepares for presidential elections in June.
Michael Fisher

Foreign Policy: Think Again: Talking with Iran - 0 views

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Middle East Foreign Policy International Relations United States Iran

shared by Michael Fisher on 16 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Michael Fisher on 16 Feb 09
     
    What the United States shouldn't do in engaging Iran
michelle benevento

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israeli girl 'youngest divorcee' - 0 views

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israel divorce

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  • michelle benevento on 28 Feb 09
     
    I just though it was funny...
Manon Latil

'Israeli elections paint a dark picture' | Middle East | Jerusalem Post - 0 views

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Turkey Israel elections

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  • Manon Latil on 14 Feb 09
     
    Turkish reaction after the Israeli elections.
Ed Webb

Global Guerrillas: TRIBES! - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 09 Mar 09 - Cached
  • The development of fictive kinship will likely be key to the development of resilient communities
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      Ed Webb on 09 Mar 09
       
      Perhaps we will all have to become more like much of the Middle East - organized and mobilized around myths of belonging and extended kinship networks?
Ed Webb

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Three arrested over Cairo bombing - 0 views

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jazeera cairo

shared by Ed Webb on 26 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Ed Webb on 26 Feb 09
     
    Much speculation from admittedly smart and informed voices like Samer and Khalil - but not a whole lot of information.
Ed Webb

Egypt and beyond: Long live Palestine - and the Arab regimes - 0 views

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palestine rights reform gaza

shared by Ed Webb on 03 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Arguably, coordinating with the regimes in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt is probably the only way to have such a caravan pass through the North African countries, and to ensure its entry into Gaza from Egypt. But if Galloway hadn't designed this campaign in order to ensure the maximum possible media attention for himself, he could have considered other ways to support Palestine - without becoming a propaganda tool for authoritarian regimes.
  • activists in Europe should work harder to find ways to support Palestine without alienating the oppresed opposition in Arab countries, as the struggle for a just solution in Palestine must be linked to the struggle for democratic reform and justice in the Middle East.
Zach Hartnett

Major controversy in Turkish parliament | Middle East | Jerusalem Post - 0 views

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jerusalem parliament turkish

shared by Zach Hartnett on 02 Mar 09 - No Cached
  • The leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in the Turkish Parliament, Ahmet Turk, created a major controversy when, on Tuesday, he became only the second person in history to speak Kurdish in the Turkish parliament, causing the state-run TRT TV channel to stop its live feed of the session,
Michael Fisher

Identity Crisis Permeates Turkish Society : NPR - 0 views

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Turkey identity NPR Middle East Islam

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  • Michael Fisher on 20 Feb 09
     
    Modern Turkey was founded as a secular, Western-oriented state. But these days, Turks say the country is expressing its Muslim identity more than its secular one. And the critical question of Islam versus secularism colors just about every debate in the country.
Michael Fisher

Iran ready to build nuclear weapon, analysts say - CNN.com - 0 views

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Iran Middle East nuclear

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  • Michael Fisher on 20 Feb 09
     
    Iranian scientists have reached "nuclear weapons breakout capability," according to a new report based on findings of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency. An ISIS report says Iran has enough uranium for a nuclear weapon but would need further refinement before turning into weapon. Iran says claims it intends to build nuclear bombs are "baseless."
Ed Webb

Charles Freeman fails the loyalty test - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 0 views

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salon.com greenwald Israel lobby AIPAC intelligence idiocy

shared by Ed Webb on 11 Mar 09 - Cached
  • In the U.S., you can advocate torture, illegal spying, and completely optional though murderous wars and be appointed to the highest positions.  But you can't, apparently, criticize Israeli actions too much or question whether America's blind support for Israel should be re-examined.
  • Blumethal also suggested that right-wing Israel fanatics in the U.S. are particularly interested in controlling how intelligence is analyzed due to their anger over the NIE's 2007 conclusion that Iran had ceased its pursuit of nuclear weapons. “It’s clear that Freeman isn’t going to be influenced by the lobby,” Jim Lobe, the Washington bureau chief of Inter Press Service, remarked to me. “They don’t like people like that, especially when they’re in charge of products like the NIE. So this is a very important test for them.”
  • Does anyone doubt that it's far more permissible in American political culture to criticize actions of the American government than it is the actions of the Israeli Government?
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  • Having the kind of debate in America that they have in Israel, let alone Europe, on the way ahead in the Middle East is simply forbidden.
  • What I find most mystifying is that Israel-centric fanatics actually think it is a good thing for Israel to impose these sorts of Israel-based loyalty tests and orthodoxies on American politics.  Polls show that Americans overwhelmingly want the U.S. Government to be "even-handed" in the Israel/Palestinian dispute and substantial portions of Americans do not favor American policies towards Israel.  Isn't it rather obvious that at some point, there will be a substantial and understandable backlash as Americans watch people like Chuck Schumer openly boast that anyone who makes "statements against Israel" that he deems "over the top" will be disqualified from serving in our Government, despite a long and distinguished record of public service and unchallenged expertise?
Ed Webb

Muslim scholars decry 'fatwa chaos' - International Herald Tribune - 0 views

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fatwa religion internet satellite TV

shared by Ed Webb on 11 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Around the world, an explosion in the number of fatwas - pronouncements by religious leaders intended to shape the actions of the faithful on everything from sex to politics - is driving efforts by prominent Muslims to rein in the practice. That's proving a nearly impossible task, given Islam's decentralized nature and the growing number of outlets for the edicts.
  • Muslims in Egypt seeking religious guidance may now turn to satellite television and the Internet for opinions from as far afield as Indonesia - unless they follow the fatwa issued in 2004 by the Dar ul-Ulum, India's largest Islamic seminary, that ruled Muslims shouldn't watch TV. With no pope or patriarch to arbitrate orthodoxy, "it's the nature of Islamic thought to have many options," says Abdel Moti Bayoumi, who heads the Islamic Research Compilation Center in Cairo. "But there are too many unqualified opinions being spread, and this is wrong." The result is what MENA, Egypt's official news agency, calls "fatwa chaos."
  • Mainstream Islamic scholars blame TV and the Web for the proliferation of pronouncements,
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  • On Sept. 28, Al-Azhar University, which is affiliated with the mosque, announced it was setting up its own TV station to issue proper edicts and avoid "fatwa chaos," according to MENA. A week later, the Council of Senior Muslim Clerics in Saudi Arabia said it was creating a Web site to provide quick access to its rulings.
  • Adding to the tension is a rivalry between establishment clerics and a new breed of television preachers, says Amr Khaled, a former accountant turned "tele-imam" who eschews the customary robes of Muslim imams for a coat and tie. His show, "Paradise in Our House," appears on four Middle East satellite stations, and Time magazine picked him as one of its 100 most influential people for 2007.
Ed Webb

On Campus, Vampires Are Besting the Beats - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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washingtonpost reading books generation youth culture

shared by Ed Webb on 09 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Here we have a generation of young adults away from home for the first time, free to enjoy the most experimental period of their lives, yet they're choosing books like 13-year-old girls -- or their parents. The only specter haunting the groves of American academe seems to be suburban contentment.
  • two-thirds of freshmen identify themselves as "middle of the road" or "conservative." Such people aren't likely to stay up late at night arguing about Mary Daly's "Gyn/Ecology" or even Robert Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."
  • "I have stood before classes," he tells me, "and seen the students snicker when I said that Melville died poor because he couldn't sell books. 'Then why are we reading him if he wasn't popular?' "
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  • a notable uptick in superficiality and a notable uptick in the anesthetizing of that native curiosity that was once a prominent feature of the adolescent mind."
  • maybe young people's reading choices reflect our desire to keep them young
  • "People don't necessarily read their politics nowadays. They get it through YouTube and blogs and social networks. I don't know that there is a fiction writer out there right now who speaks to this generation's political ambitions. We're still waiting for our Kerouac."
  • "Don't trust anyone over 140 characters."
  • Ed Webb on 09 Mar 09
     
    Please tell me this article has it wrong...
  • Jim Franklin on 09 Mar 09
     
    I think the article got it right for the most part. Sadly.
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