No luck yet with the Iranians, but the Syrians came through for me. Trusty Syrians.
NPT agreement includes 2012 conference on nuclear-free Middle East
Assad’s interview with Charlie Rose – read read read it’s really interesting
Explosion in smuggling tunnel in Gaza kills six
New chairman of the Wafd party in Egypt
Family of murdered singer drops lawsuit
A tougher America won’t necessarily get results
Unsurprisingly, divisions persist within the American Jewish political community
Israel refuses to take part in nuclear proliferation conference
UAE considers tighter anti-smoking legislation
Gaza gets ready to welcome freedom fleet
Britain’s new, frightening far right
War ‘would grow US economy’, according to one GWB
Pakistan’s culture of conspiracy
Afghanistan’s grassroots movement isn’t so grassroots
Hillary Clinton and Nasrallah in shocking mind meld
Israel: two wins make a loss as Mesha’al concedes, Netanyahu ignores it
Interview with a Palestinian collaborator
Al-Aswany and Asfour in rather polite feud over Yacoubian Building etc.
Iranian opposition and police ready themselves for election anniversary protests
Charges dropped in horrific rape case in UAE
The shadowy world of drone attacks
Turkey is acting in a Middle Eastern ‘leadership vacuum’
Obama’s National Security Strategy a total snoozefest
Iraq is in the middle of a delicate transition
The Grand Mufti, the Holocaust, and Palestine today
Very funny and very cutting review of the racist/sexist/orientalist/anti-feminist turd that is SATC 2. (Just because I can’t possibly see how I will ever be able to link to this again in relation to Middle Eastern news, while you’re on the Stranger you should absolutely check out Dan Savage’s sex blog, I cannot recommend this highly enough.)
HA! ‘Ibn Battuta’ visits his eponymous mall, with amusing results
Aaaaand…the language of the power ballad truly is universal…
champollion st. 