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Tag: Lebanon
Pregnant in War, a Fact of Life for Too Many Women in the Middle East
UNITED NATIONS – Imagine giving birth in a refugee camp after you fled the brutal repression of an Islamic group or while missiles are being ... Read More
IS threat coming to Morocco
Morocco should be advising the West right now on how to go about breaking IS while we all wait for its appalling acts of terror ... Read More
The inconvenient truth : Arab states failure to support Palestinians
Notwithstanding passionate discourses against Western responsibility and “Zionist conspiracy”, commitment to the Palestinian cause has not translated into any support. “Israel is an abnormal ... Read More
UfM Launches Training Program to Help Women Enter Job Market
The Barcelona-based Union for the Mediterranean officially launched last week an employability-skills training program labelled “Skills for Success: Employability Skills for Women” aimed to provide ... Read More
Burqa, Hijab, Niqab or ‘Nothing’? – MENA’s Attitudes to Female Dress Code
The Pew Research Centre has recently compiled the results of its research on the opinions of people in different countries across the MENA region on ... Read More
World Bank and North Africa: 2013 in Review
In fiscal year 2013, the World Bank (WB) has supported 16 projects worth 2.1 billion USD, out of which 1.8 billion USD came from the ... Read More
Egypt distributes offshore Mediterranean blocks
Eight oil and gas exploration projects have been awarded by Egypt to several companies in a statement released from the ministry of petroleum. The decision ... Read More
Iranian Spies Nabbed in Saudi Arabia
Saudi authorities have caught 18 people having direct link to Iranian intelligence services, exacerbating secret war and tensions between the Sunni Arab monarchies and Shiite ... Read More
Lebanon: the Shi’ite-Sunni crisis revived
The country’s sectarian crisis seems to be deepening as clashes broke out again between the sunnis and shite. Recent events took place in the Palestinian ... Read More
North Africa Will No Longer Benefit from Europe Preferential Trade System in 2014
The EU has issued lately its revised import preference scheme - known as the Generalized Scheme of Preferences (GSP) - for developing countries most in ... Read More