Archives for January, 2014

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with Qatar's Foreign Minister Khalid al-Attiyah (L) before the opening session of the Syrian Donors Conference at Bayan Palace in Kuwait City January 15, 2014. Kuwait's emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah promised $500 million on Wednesday for U.N. humanitarian efforts in Syria, devastated by almost three years of civil war. The emir made the pledge at an international donor conference intended to help the world body reach a $6.5 billion aid target for the crisis in

وزير الخارجيّة القطري: لإيران "دور حاسم" في سوريا

في مقابلة حصريّة مع "المونيتور"، يدعو وزير الخارجيّة القطري خالد بن محمد العطيّة إلى قيام معارضة سوريّة موحّدة، ويصف محنة السوريّين بـ"غير المسبوقة".

Iraq's Vice-President Adil Abdul-Mahdi speaks to reporters at the King Hussein Convention Centre during the World Economic Forum on the Middle East at the Dead Sea May 16, 2009. Hundreds of the world's businessmen gathered on the Jordanian side of the Dead Sea to discuss social and political reforms in the world. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN POLITICS) - RTXHOKM

عادل عبد المهدي لـ"المونيتور": الإرهاب والصراع السياسي يقفان خلف أزمة الأنبار

A Palestinian nurse tends to a baby inside an incubator in a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip March 24, 2012. Israel allowed nine fuel tankers to cross into the Gaza Strip on Friday to ease a severe power shortage triggered by a dispute over supplies between Egypt and the enclave's Hamas Islamist rulers. The fuel crisis has crippled Gaza in recent weeks. Petrol pumps have run dry and its 1.7 million residents are suffering major electricity blackouts. REUTERS/ Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA -

الطاقة الشمسيّة لمواجهة انقطاع التيار الكهربائي في غزّة

Women pray at the site of the grave of assassinated former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri and his bodyguards in downtown Beirut January 15, 2014. Nine years after the assassination of Hariri, the trial of four men accused of his killing opens on Thursday. But the defendants are on the run, bombers are back on Beirut streets and a new era of justice which the trial was meant to introduce to Lebanon remains elusive. Hariri and 21 other people were killed on the Beirut seafront in February 2005, the d

العدالة واليوم التالي

حرب الأنبار تنتقل إلى "فيسبوك" و"تويتر"

التوتّر العسكري والمذهبي في العراق يظهر بطريقة أشدّ عنفاً على صفحات مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي.

A man on his bicycle passes near the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, January 14, 2014. Four car bombs killed at least 25 people in Shi'ite Muslim districts of Baghdad on Monday, police said, in violence that coincided with a visit to the Iraqi capital by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Although no group claimed responsibility, the bombings appeared to be part of a relentless campaign by al Qaeda-linked Sunni Muslim militants to undermine Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite-led government. REUT

"اللامنتمون" وسط الأجواء الطائفيّة المشحونة في العراق

فشلت الحكومة العراقيّة في التوصّل إلى برنامج إجماع وطني يمثّل الهويّة العراقيّة، كهويّة جامعة. و"اللامنتمون" وُضعوا خارج الإطار السياسي والاجتماعي للعراق، لأنهم يحاولون البحث عن هويّة إنسانيّة تفصلهم عن الهويات المذهبيّة والقبليّة الضيّقة المحصورة والمتخاصمة في البلاد.

An independent Iraqi vendor sells Asiacell simcards for cell phones in front of the Asiacell company headquarters in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, May 9, 2012. Mobile phone operator Asiacell has closed its offices in the Iraqi city of Mosul, an al Qaeda stronghold, after attacks and threats by militants, security officials and employees said this week. Picture taken May 9, 2012. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousuly (IRAQ - Tags: CONFLICT BUSINESS TELECOMS) - RTR31V6B

"البسطة".. دكّان العراقيّ الفقير

ينتشر باعة الأرصفة في مدن العراق ويفرشون بضاعتهم على الأرض في ظاهرة اجتماعيّة مستفحلة في المجتمع يصعب محاربتها بسبب الفساد.

Egyptian Cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, gives a speech during Friday prayers, before a protest against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, at Al Azhar mosque in old Cairo December 28, 2012. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST RELIGION) - RTR3BY1C

بعد فتوى قتل السيسي.. مرصد مصري لملاحقة الفتاوى التحريضيّة

An Iraqi Marsh Arab stands as British soldiers patrol in Iraq's southern marshlands near Basra December 16, 2005, a day after [elections for the country's first full-term parliament since Saddam Hussein's overthrow. Millions of ballot papers were being counted and recounted on Friday as Iraqis celebrated a peaceful election that saw rebellious Sunni Arabs join in for the first time, pushing turnout close to 70 percent.] - RTXO2IL

إجحاف بحقّ نساء السياسة في العراق

على الرغم من أن الدستور يقرّ بكوتا نسائيّة، إلا أن المرأة لم تضطلع بدورها كما يجب في الحياة السياسيّة العراقيّة.

A Russian supertanker is anchored by Neka oil terminal, 300 km north-east of [Tehran], during an inauguration ceremony of the first phase of an oil swap project with Iran's Caspian neighbours, April 29, 2004. [ Under the project Iran will take crude from Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan and transfer them through pipelines to refineries in the cities of Tehran and Tabriz.] - RTXMLA4

روسيا لا يمكنها أن تخسر في صفقة نفطيّة مع إيران

تسعى روسيا إلى توطيد علاقاتها التجاريّة مع إيران والاستفادة من أيّ رفع للعقوبات الدوليّة عن إيران.

French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius (R) and Ahmad Jarba, leader of Syria's opposition National Coalition, attend a news conference at the French foreign ministry during a "Friends of Syria" meeting ahead of Geneva II peace talks, in Paris, January 12, 2014. The "Friends of Syria", an alliance of mainly Western and Gulf Arab countries who oppose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, urged opposition groups on Sunday to attend this month's peace talks, saying there was no alternative for a political so

"جنيف السوري" يستذكر المفاوضات الفيتناميّة

A Palestinian vendor prepares water pipes at his shop on the beach of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip May 31, 2009. Sunday marks World No Tobacco Day. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA ANNIVERSARY HEALTH) - RTR2443D

ضريبة التبغ.. هذا ما تبقّى لحكومة غزّة!

Palestinian children hold bread as they take part in a rally to show solidarity with Palestinian refugees in Syria's main refugee camp Yarmouk, in Gaza City January 16, 2014. The Arabic words on the bread read: "No to starving Yarmouk" REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX17G3P

غزة تتضامن مع مخيم اليرموك بأشكال مختلفة

Ethiopia's Great Renaissance Dam is constructed in Guba Woreda, some 40 km (25 miles) from Ethiopia's border with Sudan, June 28, 2013. Egypt fears the $4.7 billion dam, that the Horn of Africa nation is building on the Nile, will reduce a water supply vital for its 84 million people, who mostly live in the Nile valley and delta. Picture taken June 28, 2013. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY ENERGY ENVIRONMENT) - RTX115K3

مصر تتّجه إلى تدويل قضيّة "سدّ النهضة"

لغياب القوانيين التي تجرمهم عصابات منظمة تمتهن الاتجار بالبشر في العراق

Police and security forces detain a man, supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, as he gestures with four fingers outside a police academy where Mursi's second trial session was due to take place, on the outskirts of Cairo January 8, 2014. Mursi's second day in court was held up on Wednesday when bad weather delayed his flight to the Cairo police academy where he was due to face trial for inciting the killing of protesters, state media reported. The four-finger "Raba

تدويل الإخوان قضيّتهم.. هل يشكّل ورقة ضغط على النظام المصري؟