By James Rodgers | (The Conversation) | – – A place of spacious dimensions, and large population, with fine bazaars. It contains numerous mosques, and there is no wall around it. To the modern reader, this is perhaps one of the more striking descriptions the medieval Moroccan traveller, Ibn Battutah, offered of the places he […]
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Middle East
Will Trump/Flynn plot to Nuclearize Saudi Arabia spur Mideast Arms Race?
By Isaac Arnsdorf | (ProPublica) | – – The Trump administration is holding talks on providing nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia — a move that critics say could upend decades of U.S. policy and lead to an arms race in the Middle East. The Saudi government wants nuclear power to free up more oil for […]
Israelis to evict entire Bedouin Community from Jerusalem
IMEMC News | – – The Bedouin community in al-Baba Mountain, in the town of Al-Eizariya, occupied East Jerusalem, stands steadfast in face of Israeli plans which aim to evict them. According to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, not even the children are willing to wave their rights, repeating that al-Baba Mountain is “our land […]
Will the Mideast’s New Power Matrix spark Iran-Saudi War?
Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | – – Tensions often run high in the Middle East beating the drums of war and violence. This has been the case since at least 2003, the year the US invaded Iraq. The region’s post-US invasion three notorious episodes of violence are the civil war in Syria, the rise […]
Saudi prince Miteb freed in $1 bln settlement agreement
Middle East Monitor | – – Senior Saudi Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, once seen as a leading contender to the throne, was freed after reaching an “acceptable settlement agreement” with authorities paying more than $1 billion, a Saudi official said on Wednesday. Miteb, who was head of the elite National Guard, was among dozens of […]
Israel, Trump ‘working feverishly’ to block UN settlements database
Middle East Monitor | – – The Israeli and US governments are “working feverishly” to block the publication of a United Nations database of companies complicit in West Bank settlements, according to The Associated Press (AP). The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)-mandated list of companies was due to be published in December, but will reportedly […]
The Jewish Community in Multi-Cultural Morocco (Video)
Myriam Ait Malk | (Video Documentary) | – – Documentary on the Jewish Community in Morocco – by Myriam Ait Malk
With 305 dead in Sinai Terror, Trump babbles Wall & Visas
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – As the death toll in this weekend’s horrific terrorist attack on a Sufi mosque near El Arish in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula rose to at least 305, the patriarch of the Coptic Church, Tawadros II, affirmed the solidarity of Egypt’s some 8 million Christians with the Muslim […]
The War on Children in Yemen: UNICEF
Middle East Monitor | – – Millions of children are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance in Yemen, UNICEF’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa said in a press conference Sunday in Jordan’s capital Amman. “More than 11 million Yemeni children are today in acute need of humanitarian assistance. This number makes […]