Category archives for: Middle East

Regime in Syria is prepared to go to polls

bashar assad

The Syrian campaign closed on Sunday in the middle of the civil war that ravaged the country for over three years. Bashar al-Assad, who chairs the Republic since his father Hafez died fourteen years ago, is presented for the first time an election with alternative candidates. He had undergone prior two referendums, in 2000 and […]

Al Sisi is not a new Mubarak

Egytian election 2014 low turnout

After a long diplomatic career that led him to chair the Arab League, at 77, Amr Musa has turned in Egyptian politics. The disappointing outcome of his candidacy in the 2012 presidential election he kept himself in foreground. Musa was the president of the Constituent Assembly that drafted late last year the new constitution of […]

High abstention in Polls questions Al Sisi government in Egypt

Egytian election 2014 low turnout

Buffeted by the tourist camel that led from the outskirts of the Giza pyramids with transistor blaring, two young Egyptian clapped Wednesday to songs that call vote for president. Standing on the ground, the student Ahmed Nassar admitted that he would not vote in the third election day. Neither quarterback retired Abdelfatá AL Sisi, strong […]

Egypt elections extended due to low turnout

Egyptian elections 2014

The Egyptian authorities Tuesday decided to extend the presidential elections in a third day to compensate for the low turnout on Monday and Tuesday. Officials said the action was taken “to allow more people to participate.” The lack of interest in the elections to harm the quarterback Abdelfatá Sisi that seeks legitimacy as the new […]

Palestinian factions agreed to form new unity government

Palestine Unity Government

The Palestinian unity government is about to become a reality. As the different factions have announced Tuesday  in a press conference in Gaza, though no agreement yet on the 15 ministers who will shape it. On Thursday, their names will be announced at a ceremony to be held in Ramallah (West Bank), led by President […]

No mercy with former Egyptian President Morsi

no mercy for Morsi

While a smiling Abdel Fatah al Sisi voted Monday in a polling of the affluent Cairo neighborhood of Heliopolis, Mohamed Morsi, the rais who was deposed nearly one year ago, languishes in prison Burj al-Arab, near the city of Alexandria. The Islamist politician, the first elected president of Egypt at the polls, is being tried […]

Uneventful election day in Egypt as Muslim Brotherhood Kept Away

Egyptian elections 2014

The first day of the Egyptian elections Monday closed smoothly. Ten months after the overthrow of the Islamist Mohamed Morsi, left  president  elections in Egypt, the recently retired quarterback Sisi Abdelfatá to caress an expected landslide victory. Al Sisi is about to establish itself as yet another Egyptian military leader in the tradition of Gamal […]

5 UN observers released in Syria after kidnapping

Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

A convoy of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), consisting of six inspectors and five Syrian driver, suffered an attack this Monday in northern Syria. The convoy consisted of four UN vehicles was heading to the town of Taibet al- Imam, on the outskirts of the northern province of Hama, to investigate […]

Pope is ashamed to ‘monstrosity’ of Holocaust

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“Nobody instrumentalized the name of God for violence,” said Pope Francisco. It was delivered this morning to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammad Ahmad Hussein, in the beautiful Temple Mount, so close, just a few meters and so far – dozens of police and military and centuries of mutual misunderstanding – the Wall Lamentations, the […]

Egyptians vote in presidential elections between resignation and fear

Egyptian elections 2014

Egyptian presidential advertised around Cairo with a huge signage that, although it is well diverse revealed from day one who has everything to gain in the voting on Monday and Tuesday. Almost all banners, signs and posters in the capital of Egypt show only the candidate Abdel Fatah to Sisi. Next to Tahrir Square, the […]

“It is urgent to find a peaceful solution to Syria” – Pope Francisco

pope francis and king abdullah II

The first words of Pope Francisco Saturday after landing in Jordan, the first leg of his three-day trip to the Holy Land, have been on thanks to Jordan for hosting ” generously large numbers of Palestinian refugees, Iraqi and Syrian especially ” and its king, Abdullah II, for his commitment to dialogue in the region: […]

Israel and Palestine accept invitation for peace dialogue in Vatican

israel and palestine

From Amman to Bethlehem, helicopter, without stepping on Israeli land, Pope Francis started his second day in the Holy Land in the same way the first ended: invoking the need for a peaceful and urgent to peace process. “I encourage the Palestinian and Israeli peoples and their respective authorities,” said Jorge Mario Bergoglio to the […]

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