Its nerves showed in July 2010, when King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa split his Ministry of Culture and Information into two unequal parts. The incumbent minister, an Al Khalifa woman, kept responsibility for culture and tourism. The more telling and urgent action concerned the information portfolio. In a public statement, King Hamad declared that Bahrain had become the target of "planned media provocations, particularly from Iran, to which the Bahraini media has not been able to respond as it must." He then decreed the creation of an Information Affairs Authority (IAA) to meet the Kingdom's "immense" political challenges.
The man the king picked to lead the new authority is Sheikh Fawaz bin Mohammed Al Khalifa. As IAA chief, Sheikh Fawaz enjoys ministerial rank and is effectively Bahrain's Minister of Information, although only unofficial media use that Orwellian title.
The Islamic Monthly - Winter/Spring 2012 : International: Ghostwriter for the Arab Leader - 0 views
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Sheikh Fawaz is courteous, unquestionably loyal, and, at base, unimaginative. He is also relentlessly competitive
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Tone-Lōc's Funky Cold Medina was a favorite
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Islamist Lobbies' Washington War on Arab and Muslim Liberals | Islam in America Right S... - 1 views
Les10 leçons sur la révolution arabe, selon Jean-Pierre Filiu - Culture - El ... - 0 views
Arab revolts bring Islamist vision closer - Columnist - New Straits Times - 0 views
Arabs: Israel and America are our main concern, NOT Iran | Intifada Palestine - 0 views
THE DAILY STAR :: Opinion :: Commentary :: Iran still has hope for the Arab Spring - 0 views
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Five myths about the Arab Spring - The Washington Post - 0 views
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Arabs to Davos: invest in us, don't fear us | Reuters - 0 views
Internet, seul média libre lors du printemps arabe, selon le patron de Google... - 0 views
Arabs disgusted by Gaddafis killing - ModernGhana.com - 0 views
Boston Review - Emon, Lust, and Macklin: We Are All Khaled Said - 0 views
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We secured ourselves and our connections, but I can tell you in many cases we didn’t for different reasons: slow connections, the need to update from a public device, etc. Luckily, the state security were not that smart, because I know ways in which they could have pinpointed our location and identity, but they didn't. Even the arrest of Wael Ghonim, as far as I know, was not related to his Khaled Said activity; it was something that was discovered during their interrogation of him on a different matter.
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During the revolution I was the only person using their real account to administer the page, so I was terrified and took extra measures
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Facebook in Egypt is very limited in its outreach. You can only reach certain areas (mostly neighborhoods in Cairo and Alexandria) and a certain segment (the middle class youths). We had only around 400,000 members on the page, mostly from Giza and the surrounding region, and mostly in their twenties and 30s. This is a very homogeneous group, but, clearly, given some conditions, they can start something significant.
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Event Summary : Second Annual Conference of Insight Turkey - 0 views
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the Arab people who were for years stuck between an authoritarian regime and a possible Islamist totalitarianism, proved, with the elections undertaken in the aftermath of the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia that “a third option” was possible
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only a system in which a constitutions prepared by publicly elected representatives and approved by the public with a referendum, could be valid.
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the norms of international human rights were superior to the constitutions’ and in the Turkish case, a constitution could not be drafted without being subjected to restrictions. He further emphasized that the Treaty of Lausanne, European Council membership and EU membership processes offered guidelines for constitution drafting that needed to be considered.
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The brutal truth about Tunisia - Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent - 0 views
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It's the same old problem for us in the West. We mouth the word "democracy" and we are all for fair elections – providing the Arabs vote for whom we want them to vote for.
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For years, this wretched man had been talking about a "slow liberalising" of his country. But all dictators know they are in greatest danger when they start freeing their entrapped countrymen from their chains.
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The torture chambers will keep going. We will maintain our good relations with the dictators. We will continue to arm their armies and tell them to seek peace with Israel. And they will do what we want. Ben Ali has fled. The search is now on for a more pliable dictator in Tunisia – a "benevolent strongman" as the news agencies like to call these ghastly men. And the shooting will go on – as it did yesterday in Tunisia – until "stability" has been restored. No, on balance, I don't think the age of the Arab dictators is over. We will see to that.
LENIN'S TOMB: "The first Arab revolution of the 21st Century" - 0 views
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: You have to read this:... - 0 views
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