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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran's women on the frontline - 1 views

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shared by michelle benevento on 23 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Studies by sociologists in recent years show that women are becoming increasingly aware of how the law discriminates against them.
    • michelle benevento
      michelle benevento on 23 Mar 09
       
      changing tide for equality within Iran, education is seen as first step.
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Obama starts well with Muslims but must do more - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 16 Mar 09 - Cached
  • By visiting Prime Minister Erdogan, Obama is overtly reaching out to what Americans would call "moderate" Islamists. Going to non-Arab Turkey also appears to be an effort to separate US relations with Muslim countries from US policy toward the Arab world.
  • Half of all Indonesians and about 80 percent of Egyptians and Turks believe the goal of US policy is to expand Israel's borders. Few buy US claims that it supports a Palestinian state.
  • Earlier this month, newspapers here in Cairo carried front-page photographs of Clinton being kissed by Israeli President Shimon Peres during her visit to Jerusalem. Arabs saw in that a clear message. Ditto what she said – and did not say – about Gaza, Israeli settlements, Hamas, and human rights in Egypt. Many Arabs fear it's Condoleezza Rice redux. The Israel lobby's success in torpedoing Obama's nominee for head of the National Intelligence Council – widely reported here – underlines the perception of business as usual.
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  • Bush, it seems, gave democracy a bad name.
  • Arabs are still willing to be convinced about Obama's motives. The flurry of diplomatic activity and indications that the administration is willing to talk directly with Tehran and even with the Taliban are being praised on the region's editorial pages. Arabs welcome the fact that the myopia of the past eight years has been jettisoned in favor of a nuanced approach that recognizes the interconnectedness of the many complex policy challenges of the Middle East.
  • Obama has the symbolism of outreach to the world's Muslims down pat, but gestures are cheap in a region where lives are readily sacrificed in symbolic acts of martyrdom. Now he must follow up with real, concrete engagement.
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Facebook in Arabic and Hebrew - 0 views

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shared by Monica Grandy on 14 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Monica Grandy on 14 Mar 09
     
    Facebook is now available in Arabic and Hebrew but current users are wary about making the switch
  • sean lyness on 15 Mar 09
     
    It seems like many people are comfortable with the english version of the page especially because they can already write in arabic and hebrew on the site. It seems like it would really inconvenience a lot of people (like our buddy yasser) to switch to arabic for instance and be disconnected from many english speaking contacts
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Arabic version of Facebook debuts - UPI.com - 0 views

www.upi.com/...UPI-79661236805921 Facebook Arabic Hebrew Middle East
shared by Jared Bernhardt on 12 Mar 09 - Cached
  • The Guardian newspaper said Facebook already had 900,000 users in Egypt; 250,000 in Saudi Arabia; 300,000 in Lebanon and 700,000 in Israel. The site is expected to grow in popularity now that it is also available in Arabic, a language spoken by 250 million people, and Hebrew, the language of 7 million.
  • Jared Bernhardt on 12 Mar 09
     
    And the Facebook parasite keeps on sucking the hours out of nations... OOO DID SOMEONE JUST UPDATE THEIR STATUS?!?!
  • Jared Bernhardt on 12 Mar 09
     
    Facebook takes over another area of the world's bordeom.
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Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Israeli forces seize Gaza aid ship - 0 views

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shared by Jared Bernhardt on 05 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Jared Bernhardt on 05 Feb 09
     
    Lebanese ship Al-Ikhwa carrying aid to Gaza attacked by Israeli navy.
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | UK culture body halts Iran work - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 05 Feb 09 - Cached
  • "They are designed to pressurise our staff with the clear intention of stopping our cultural and educational work in the country."
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 05 Feb 09
       
      True enough. So what does the Iranian government have to fear? Culture is serious business, serious politics. And Iran, like many MENA states, is an example of cultural authoritarianism.
  • young people in Iran and the UK have lost the chance to build links that can last a lifetime
  • they are keen to have a relationship, but they are not prepared to have a two-way street
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Will Iran's protests succeed? - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 15 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Whatever the case, perception is what counts. And the perception of large numbers of Iranians that their votes were "stolen" presents the authorities - and especially the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - with a burning dilemma.
  • perception is what counts. And the perception of large numbers of Iranians that their votes were "stolen" presents the authorities - and especially the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - with a burning dilemma.
  • The outcome has also played into the hands of Benjamin Netanyahu's hardline government in Israel.
  • Ed Webb on 15 Jun 09
     
    Sage words from Jim
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Swiss ban on minarets was a vote for tolerance and inclusion | csmonitor.com - 1 views

www.csmonitor.com/...p09s01-coop.html Switzerland minarets Islamophobia hirsiali opinion
shared by Ed Webb on 06 Dec 09 - Cached
  • By Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • There are two ways to interpret the vote.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 06 Dec 09
       
      Actually, I can think of many more than two ways to interpret it. This is a very limited way of framing the issue.
  • Imams can then preach a message of self-segregation and a bold rejection of the ways of the non-Muslims.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 06 Dec 09
       
      Sure. But they can also preach about, you know, pretty much anything. They can preach a message of tolerance and inclusion, too, and having a minaret doesn't actually change things either way.
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  • None of those Western academics, diplomats, and politicians who condemn the Swiss vote to ban the minaret address, let alone dispute, these facts.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 06 Dec 09
       
      I'm a Western academic, and former diplomat, and I'm disputing these 'facts'.
  • And this is what the Swiss vote shows us. This is a confrontation between local, working-class voters (and some middle-class feminists) and Muslim immigrant newcomers who feel that they are entitled, not only to practice their religion, but also to replace the local political order with that of their own.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 06 Dec 09
       
      This may be what the vote shows you. But you have shown no scrap of evidence that the small minority of Swiss who are Muslims have any such agenda. All there is so far is a tendentious Islamophobic narrative backed by the coarsest of generalizations. Where's the substance?
  • It is remarkable that the Swedish foreign minister, Carl Bildt, said in public that the Swiss vote is a poor act of diplomacy
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 06 Dec 09
       
      I'm with you there. Very odd and poor choice of words there. The UN condemnation of the vote as intolerance was more to the point.
  • There is indeed a wider international confrontation between Islam and the West. The Iraq and Afghan wars are part of that, not to mention the ongoing struggle between Israelis and Palestinians and the nuclear ambitions of Iran. That confrontation should never be confused with the local problem of absorbing those Muslims who have been permitted to become permanent residents and citizens into European societies.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 06 Dec 09
       
      The problem here is that if you're going to accept the Huntington master-narrative of clash of civilizations, then you cannot really separate these things. If you want to see a confrontation between "Islam" and the "West" then you have to accept that it is within as well as across borders. It is much easier to separate out the domestic and foreign policy issues if you abandon the narrative of the 'clash' - I recommend it.
  • Ed Webb on 06 Dec 09
     
    Hirsi Ali's opinion.
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Index on Censorship » Blog Archive » Tunisia: The Middle East's first cyberwar - 0 views

www.indexoncensorship.org/...tunisia-sidi-bouzid-protest media censorship Tunisia internet twitter socialmedia social media analysis opinion
shared by Ed Webb on 07 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • “The police aim to break into the accounts of users to know who communicates with whom and on what subject,” blogged Astrubal, the Tunisian co-editor of the independent www.nawaat.org website, “with the end objective of dismantling the citizen journalist networks that formed spontaneously after the Sidi Bouzid protests.”
  • This systematic stifling of independent opinion over the years has turned many Tunisians to the internet for news denied by the mainstream press, keeping the Tunisian online censor, popularly nicknamed Ammar 404, particularly busy.
  • Tunisia was the first Arab state to embrace the internet, and to no-one’s surprise, the first to systematically repress it.
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  • The conventional wisdom is that the alternative communications links offered by the internet and social networking on the web will have a limited effect on change in Tunisia. But with national media either repressed or full square behind the state, it remains the main conduit for news of any kind from Tunisia, especially for foreign media, chief among them al-Jazeera, which has given substantial coverage to the protests, even though its operations in the country are strictly limited, requiring it to rely on video content and updates from social networking sites.
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BBC News - Egypt crisis: Army gives constitution deadline - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...world-middle-east-12466893 Egypt #jan25 constitution
shared by Ed Webb on 15 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • The eight-member committee is mostly made up of experts in constitutional law but it includes a senior figure from the opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 15 Feb 11
       
      Also includes leading Islamic reformists.
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BBC News - Egypt protests: Army rules out the use of force - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...world-middle-east-12330169 Egypt Mumbarek Jan25
shared by Neil Devoe on 01 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Meanwhile, new Vice President Omar Suleiman said Mr Mubarak had asked him to open dialogue with all political parties on constitutional reform.
  • In its statement, carried on Egyptian media, the military said: "To the great people of Egypt, your armed forces, acknowledging the legitimate rights of the people... have not and will not use force against the Egyptian people."
  • The US state department has despatched a special envoy to Cairo, former ambassador to Egypt Frank Wisner, to urge Egyptian leaders to embrace political change.
    • Neil Devoe
      Neil Devoe on 01 Feb 11
       
      This seems like quite a shift in supporting the Egyptian people over Mumbarek, especially in comparison to Hilary Clinton's original comments about supporting the "stable government" that Mumbarek led. Hopefully, Wisner can help influence a change to a new form of Egyptian democracy.
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  • Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu warned against the takeover of Egypt by "an organised Islamic group" as had happened in Iran.
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Live blog Feb 8 - Egypt protests | Al Jazeera Blogs - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 08 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Ed Webb on 08 Feb 11
     
    Wael Ghonim interview important - immediately went viral via twitter, youtube and others.
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