Arab Diaspora: Shall I Marry a Non-Arab?

Global Voices 2 months ago Region: Morocco

Arab women living in diaspora have hard questions to answer. Should they marry non-Arabs, non-Muslims or converts to Islam? Palestinian blogger Mona, who lives in Canada and blogs at Rebellious Arab Girl, opens a can of wo... more

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Syria's Language Move Irks Businesses

IWPR 3 months ago Region: Syrian Arab Republic

Shop owners say requirement for Arabic signs called costly, unfair and pointless. By an IWPR-trained reporter (SB No. 71, 10-Aug-09) Twelve years after opening an electronics shop in Damascus, Khaled has been forced to c... more

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China - Arab ties tightened

Wang Fangqing 5 months ago Region: China

Last week, Ben Simpfendorfer, the Hong Kong-based chief China Economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland and the writer of the new book "The New Silk Road" had an interview with the New Yorker magazine, talking about the lon... more

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Vancouver - Racial Problems at UBC Highlight Tensions between Jews and Arabs

Julian Worker 9 months ago Region: Canada

Just in case you believed that Vancouver is Lotusland, Shangri La, or even ‘The Best Place on Earth’ then the events of the last few days will surely disabuse you of those notions. Ethnic tensions have surface... more

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Single Arab Women Face Taboo of Living Alone

Global Voices a year ago Region: United Arab Emirates

Posted by Ayesha Saldanha to Global Voices Online For many single Arab women, to live and work or study away from their family is not a choice made easily, because of fear of ‘what people will say'. A number of bl... more

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UN Proposal Provokes Iraqi Anger

DanielYoon a year ago Region: Iraq

Kurds, Turkomans and Arabs criticise recommendations on how to resolve territorial disputes in north. By Zaineb Naji in Baghdad Rival political factions have slammed a United Nations proposal to settle disputes over cont... more

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Saudi Arab to Quell Oil Fire

Santosh Kumar Agarwal a year ago Region: India

  Since the start of the millennium, the oil prices have soared five folds and have been hovering between $130-$140 this month, derailing many developing economies like India apart from hurting US where the oil consu... more

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Arabeyes: Looming Food Crisis

Global Voices a year ago Region: Kuwait

by Amira Al Hussaini Inflation and rising food and oil prices are a reality around the world, and Arab bloggers are not only feeling the pinch, but writing about it too. Here is a snapshot of reactions from Lebanon, Syria... more

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The Arabic Channels puncture cultural isolation: Aljazeera, a major source of news

Heba Zoabi 2 years ago Region: Israel

Palestinian Arabs that live in Israel are not different from other Arab societies in their interest in watching TV in large numbers.They do differ in the type and manner of their TV consumption, which reveal the complicate... more

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Arab summits debates Gaza response

Abu Ilyas Muhammad 10 months ago Region: Palestine

The crisis in Gaza is topping the agenda of Arab leaders who have gathered in Kuwait for a summit aimed at boosting regional economic growth. King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia pledged on Monday to donate one b... more

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