Samar Fatany, a Saudi woman visiting America to witness this election as part of a State Department program to prepare Middle Eastern women to run for office in their home countries, writes home from the US: In the Arab world, limited elections … hardly give one a taste of the incredible power of democracy as […]
Iraq is going to cut Awakening salaries from about$300 a month to $250. That's a 17% cut. The US can either step in and cover the difference or wait to see if there is any fallout.
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… to voice their opposition as Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party holds its annual conference. Opposition groups denied a permit to hold another, contemporaneous conference in Cairo took their gathering online. You can check out the blog at anti-NDP.blogspot.com (Arabic).
The Brookings Institution's Middle East Youth Initiative is following the developments of the global economic whatever-we-are-calling it in a series called Food, Fuel and Finance: How Will the Middle East Weather the Global Economic Crisis? Slipping Oil Prices: is the Oil-Rich Middle East Prepared?, the first installment, offers a brief history of oil revenues over […]
A major consideration behind Congressional attempts to condition or reduce Egyptian military aid is the concern that Egypt is preparing for aggressive military action towards Israel. The late Tom Lantos led the initiative in Congress. He had this to say in June 2004 during a subcommittee meeting of the House Committee on International Relations: Cairo […]
Hizbullah's General Conference ended speculations regarding keeping its Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in his current position, following a Fatwa (religious decree) by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei allowing him to maintain his top post. The Kuwaiti daily al–Rai said that the conference is mulling naming senior Hizbullah commander Mustapha Shehadeh to succeed the late […]
On 11/5, Secretary Rice will start a four-day trip to Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Palestine. I guess she's decided the term “lame duck” won't apply to her. Although, I know that I expect to hear about nothing but the presidential election over those four days; we’ll see whether that's the case for her.
Tasnaq is not the only Armenian party. However, I believe it is the most important one on the Lebanese political scene. MP Hagop Pakradounian strikes me as a different type of politician. “Our alliance with the Free Patriotic Movement in the upcoming elections is ultimate and we don't stab our ally in the back.Today thanks […]
A treasure from the archive of the Christian Science Monitor detailing women's efforts to persuade the Coalition Provisional Authority to include them. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IIDEA)'s Global Database of Quotas for Women. Trivia: Rwanda has the world's highest proportion of women in the elected legislature, at 48.8%.
… the female ones, anyway, and of course they are in favor. Iraq's Parliament right now is 25.5% female – the US House is 16.8% female, and the Senate 16%. Since the women as a group form a big enough bloc to disrupt the body's work if they make a collective decision to do so, […]
Arab News reports on the travails of the working Saudi woman: late night phone calls from one's boss, of course of a non-professional nature; childish behavior if one chooses to ignore those calls; ultimatums when one refuses to go on a date with one's boss. The Kingdom is considering passing a law that protects women […]
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