Archives for July, 2013

Anti-Mursi protesters follow the news on television in a public cafe on a main square where thousands gathered for a second day in Alexandria, July 1, 2013. Egypt's armed forces handed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi a virtual ultimatum to share power on Monday, giving feuding politicians 48 hours to compromise or have the army impose its own roadmap for the country. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX1198F

الإعلام المصري والانزلاق نحو خطاب الكراهيّة

Iraqi men walk past posters advertising a pornographic film at a cinema
in Baghdad, April 30, 2003. Pornography and prostitution was officially
banned under the regime of Saddam Hussein until his ousting from power
by U.S.-led forces two weeks ago.

REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra - RTRMOD7

الدعارة "الخاصة" تزدهر بمباركة النخب والقوى المتنفّذة

Palestinians wait as they fill tankers with fuel on the border between Egypt and southern Gaza Strip July 8, 2013. Armed men launched a series of attacks on Sunday on security checkpoints in the North Sinai towns of Sheikh Zuweid and El Arish close to Egypt's border with Israel and the Gaza Strip, and one soldier was killed. The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza Strip remained closed since Friday. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY ENERGY) - RTX11GFQ

هل تذهب حماس وإسرائيل إلى المواجهة بعد سقوط مرسي؟

$Members of the new Iraqi Parliament attend a session at the Parliament headquarters in Baghdad, November 11, 2010. Iraq's fractious politicians have agreed to return Shi'ite Nuri al-Maliki as prime minister, ending an eight-month deadlock that raised fears of renewed sectarian war, but leaving some Sunnis sceptical he can forge national unity. The pact on top government posts brings together Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds in a power-sharing arrangement similar to the last Iraqi government and could help prevent$

العراق يحثّ الخطى لإقرار "مجلس الاتحاد" المؤجّل

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Iranian clerics talk to each other during break time at a religious conference centre in Qom, 120 km (75 miles) south of Tehran, March 9, 2011. The clerics are attending the International Conference of Religious Doctrines and the Mind-Body Problem. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY) - RTR2JNWP

دور الحوزات الشيعيّة في الصراع الطائفي

A soldier and a policeman secure a field as a man uses a tractor to uproot hashish plants in Boday village, near Baalbek city, July 23, 2012. Farmers armed with assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars forced Lebanese government troops to abandon an operation to destroy their illegal cannabis crop in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley on Monday, a witness said. The farmers' attack halted a morning raid by security forces, who had been flattening the tall spiky marijuana plants with tractors, accompanied by

المخدّرات في لبنان: افتتاح الموسم هذا الأسبوع

A Palestinian works inside a smuggling tunnel flooded by Egyptian forces, beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip February 19, 2013. Egypt will not tolerate a two-way flow of smuggled arms with the Gaza Strip that is destabilising its Sinai peninsula, a senior aide to its Islamist president said, explaining why Egyptian forces flooded sub-border tunnels last week. To match Interview PALESTINIANS TUNNELS/EGYPT/ REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNRES

عزل مرسي في مصر يهزّ قطاع غزّة اقتصادياً

A protester holds a picture of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi during a pro-democracy demonstration in Sanaa July 8, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammed al-Sayaghi (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX11GUB

مصر تقسم الشارع اليمني إلى جبهتين

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (R) meets with Iraqi Kurdish President Masoud Barzani (L) in Baghdad, July 7, 2013. Barzani visited Baghdad on Sunday for the first time in more than two years, in a symbolic step to resolve disputes between the central government and the autonomous region over land and oil. The visit follows an equally rare trip by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki who met Barzani in Kurdistan last month, breaking ice between leaders who have repeatedly accused each other of violating

بارزاني في بغداد.. لماذا؟

بارزاني يزور بغداد لتكريس حقيقة أن البيئة العراقيّة مهيّئة للمصالحة الوطنيّة، بشرط توفّر روحيّة أخ أكبر.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre L) attends a meeting with Iraqi heads of parliamentary blocs at the parliament house in Baghdad, December 6, 2012. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3B9XR

الأحزاب العراقيّة تخوض انتخابات 2014 من دون قانون ينظّم عملها

يبدو أن الانتخبات التشريعيّة العراقيّة المقرّرة في العام 2014، سوف تجرى على الأرجح وقانون الأحزاب المؤجّل منذ سنوات لم يقرّ بعد.

A Palestinian boy looks up as he walks on the beach of Gaza City June 24, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: SOCIETY) - RTX10ZFV

مياه الصرف الصحي تطارد الهاربين إلى بحر غزّة

Ahmad Mohamed Al-Sayed, managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) at Qatar Holding, speaks during a news conference at the Qatar Motor Show in Doha, January 26, 2011. Qatar Holding's call for a higher price has threatened to derail commodities trader Glencore's $26 billion bid for miner Xstrata. With assets in excess of $100 billion, Qatar's sovereign fund has built a stake of around 11 percent in Xstrata since February. Picture taken January 26, 2011. To match Factbox QATARHOLDING-INVESTMENTS/

الاستثمارات القطريّة: الفصل بين السياسة والاقتصاد

Iraq's Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi (R) meets with Iraqi Kurdish President Masoud Barzani (L) in Baghdad, July 7, 2013. Barzani visited Baghdad on Sunday for the first time in more than two years, in a symbolic step to resolve disputes between the central government and the autonomous region over land and oil. The visit follows an equally rare trip by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki who met Barzani in Kurdistan last month, breaking ice between leaders who have repeatedly accused each other of vi

المعارضة تحتجّ على التمديد لبارزاني.. وأعضاء من حزبه أيضاً

معارضة شديدة داخل إقليم كردستان العراق لقرار تمديد ولاية بارزاني.

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal (L) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (C) talk with an official during their meeting in Cairo November 24, 2011. The leaders of Fatah and Hamas met for the first time in six months on Thursday and hailed progress toward ending Palestinian divisions that has led to separate governments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but there was no sign of a breakthrough. REUTERS/Mohamed Al Hams/Handout (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVER

قادة حركة فتح : استمرارية حركة"حماس" مرهونة بتخليها عن الإخوان المسلمين ورجوعها إلى الشرعية الفلسطينية

Female members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi with a drum and flags shout slogans as they rally at the Rabaa Adawiya square, where they are camping at, in Cairo July 11, 2013. Political infighting threatened to stall Egypt's transition plans on Thursday, as the military cracked down on Muslim Brotherhood leaders it blames for inciting a clash in Cairo in which troops shot and killed 53 protesters. Monday's violence between supporters of Mursi, Egypt's fi

التيارات الإسلاميّة في كردستان العراق تعبّر عن قلقها بعد الإطاحة بمرسي

Palestinian members of security forces loyal to Hamas stand guard on the border between Egypt and southern Gaza Strip July 5, 2013. Egyptian security forces closed the Rafah border crossing and state media said it would reopen on Saturday. Security sources said Islamist gunmen opened fire on El-Arish airport, close to the border with the Gaza Strip and Israel and at three military checkpoints. A police station in Rafah on the Gaza border was hit by rockets, wounding several soldiers. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu M

هل أصبحت حماس وحيدة بعد سقوط مرسي؟