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Putting Women’s Rights Back on the Mideast Media Agenda - Pesach Benson (HonestReporting) - Video
Nigeria: Nigerian diplomats serving in Saudi Arabia said that large numbers of Nigerians are being trained at al Qaeda camps in Yemen. The diplomats said the collapse of the Yemeni government would pose a threat to Nigeria's security. (The Long War Journal)
Israeli Song Becomes Accidental Theme Tune of Libyan Rebels -Tom Gross (Mideast Dispatch Archive) This has sparked a heated debate in Arabic among the talkback comments on YouTube about whether it is permissible to enjoy humor from an Israeli.
Clashes on Facebook Over Calls for Revolution in Qatar - L. Barkan (MEMRI)
Its organizers are protesting against the corruption rampant in the regime and the absence of real political and party life in Qatar, as well as the lack of coverage of Qatar's domestic affairs on the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera TV. They also criticized the country's friendly relations with Israel and the U.S.
Its organizers are protesting against the corruption rampant in the regime and the absence of real political and party life in Qatar, as well as the lack of coverage of Qatar's domestic affairs on the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera TV. They also criticized the country's friendly relations with Israel and the U.S.
Differing viewpoints on the upheaval in the region:
My Optimism on the New Arab Revolt - Daniel Pipes (National Review) The revolts over the past two months have been largely constructive, patriotic, and open in spirit. Political extremism has been largely absent. The time has come to discard the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Bernard Lewis: Arab Upheaval a Mass Expression of Outrage Against Injustice - David Horovitz (Jerusalem Post) "The Arab masses certainly want change. And they want improvement. But when you say do they want democracy, that's...a political concept that has no history, no record whatever in the Arab, Islamic world."
Little Hope of Democracy as Arab Despots Overthrown - Kevin Myers (Irish Independent) And so, just eight years on, the neo-con dream that prompted the invasion of Iraq is finally coming to pass with the collapse of the various Secular Arab Despotisms....Across the Western world, as massacre and oppression mark the last days of secular Arab despotisms, there is almost silence.
