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Criticising the President no Laughing Matter
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Jan 19 (IPS) - Egyptians love to have a good laugh. At every opportunity they rattle off jokes and take jabs at themselves, their society, and – where they dare – their ruler.
Iraqi Women Seek a New Liberation
- Inter Press Service
BAGHDAD, Jan 16 (IPS) - From full literacy declared in the seventies, Iraq is down to 40 percent literacy for women. From the first woman prime minister and the first woman judge in the Middle East in 1959, Iraq has slipped to a place where an abnormal number of widows struggle, and where child marriages are on the rise. Hanaa Edwar is putting up a fight to win Iraqi women their freedoms again.
Syrian Refugees Face Storms With Cardboard
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Lebanon, Jan 15 (IPS) - Zuhur al-Khalaf is eight months pregnant and lives in a one-room shack in northern Lebanon with her husband and five children. The cloth walls and cardboard roof have become sodden and musty after heavy storms this past week, and two of the children are suffering from fevers and chest infections.
OP-ED: The Arab Spring at Two: What Lessons Should We Learn?
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 04 (IPS) - As the Arab Spring enters its third year, new Arab democracies and the international community should reflect on several critical lessons from the past two years.
Washington Struggles for Relevance as Assad’s Fall Approaches
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 14 (IPS) - This week, the United States officially recognised the newly-formed National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces as the legitimate representatives of the Syrian people, culminating a two-year process of legitimising the Syrian opposition with the U.S. government.
Civil War on the Egyptian Horizon
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Dic 14 (IPS) - Egypt is facing its worst political crisis since the January 2011 revolution ousted former dictator Hosni Mubarak, with analysts warning of a possible civil war. Furthermore, unlike during the revolution, opposition to the current regime is bitterly divided between Islamists and more secular Egyptians.
First Muslim Human Rights Commission to Launch End December
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 14 (IPS) - Gathering for the first time here in Washington, representatives of the newly established human rights commission of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) stated Thursday that they plan to start their substantive work by the end of the month.
Constitutional Poll Polarises Egypt
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Dic 13 (IPS) - This Saturday, Egyptians will head to the polls to vote on a controversial draft constitution. The referendum has divided this nation – still pulsing with the revolutionary fervour that toppled former dictator Hosni Mubarak in early 2011 - with most Islamist parties and groups supporting the proposed national charter, while liberal, leftist and 'revolutionary' groups, in addition to Egypt's sizable pro-Mubarak demographic, are opposed to it.
Egyptian Pulse Running Weak
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Dic 09 (IPS) - Hospitalised for impaired kidney function, Eman El-Behery needed three medicines to bring her diabetes under control. Her daughter, 16-year-old Reham, found two of the medications at a pharmacy across the road from the hospital, but after hours of searching was unable to find the third, a drug that dilates blood vessels in the kidneys to prevent damage.
New Attack Brings Renewed Strength for Hamas
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Dic 08 (IPS) - The Islamist party Hamas had been losing support as a result of economic difficulties and factional fighting. Today Hamas is popular again, heralded for its retaliation in Israel's latest military assault on the Gaza Strip.
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