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LOOK: Saudi Prince's Posh Miami Pad

Posted 05.12.2012

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Although many of Miami's 1 percent may feel like they live like princes, we finally have a peek at how one true royal in South Florida lives. Shei...

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Andrea Stone

Why Saudi Intelligence Coup In Underwear Bomb Plot Is Cause For Pause

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Underwear Bomb, Aqap, Underwear Bomber, Intelligence, Video, Cia, Saudi, Terrorism, Saudi Arabia, Prince-Nayef, Yemen Terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, Double Agent, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The thwarting of an al Qaeda plot to send an underwear bomber on a U.S.-bound jetliner is more than an intelligence coup in the battle a...

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Iran Toughening on Arab Gulf States and Softening on Nuclear Negotiations

Raghida Dergham | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Raghida, Saudi, Arabia, Iran, Un, Iraq, Gcc, Syria, Dergham, World News
Raghida Dergham

New York -- Iran's leadership has purposely coupled the features of its deal on the nuclear issue with the five permanent Security Council member-stat...

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The Tunis Conference: A Practical Step Towards Toppling the Syrian Regime

Raghida Dergham | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Russia, Raghida, Lebanon, Saudi, Iran, Un, Arab League, Gcc, Syria, China, Dergham, US Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Martin Dempsey, Marie Colvin, Marie Colvin Dead, World News
Raghida Dergham

The Gulf-Western alliance has taken the decision to confront Russia on the issue of Syria, and it presumes that the regime will be gone by the end of the year. Indeed, the strategy to implement this has been set in motion.

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Reacting to Reactionary Muslims

Jalees Rehman, M.D. | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Social Media, Islam, Religion News, Religion, Muslim, Human Rights, Twitter, Conservatives, Saudi, Internet Censorship, Censorship, Kashgari, Religion News
Jalees Rehman, M.D.

There are a number of Muslims in Muslim countries who may be willing to oppose the reactionary-conservative movements, but they need additional support, both from within Muslim countries as well as from outside.

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Gosaibi Served the Public With Far More Than His Pen

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 10.16.2011

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Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Few other writers have transcended the notion of distinct nationalities that is common among many Gulf writers today. As time passes, there will be more and more people like me who have been impacted by Ghazi's writings.

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Yemen: The World Goes to Riyadh

Robert Weller | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Yemen, Nostradamus, Arab Spring, Saleh, Saudi, Riyadh, World News
Robert Weller

At the end of the Arab Spring will they all have gone to Riyadh? For years Muslim dictators have been able to go to Saudi Arabia for medical treatmen...

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Osama Bin Laden: He Had It Coming

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 07.05.2011

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Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

For ten years millions of Arabs were held hostage due to the acts of a minority. During this time tens of thousands of lives were lost in senseless violence that only a megalomaniac would be able to justify.

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Protecting Your Post-Divorce Assets After Natural Disasters

Natalie Pace | Posted 05.25.2011

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Natalie Pace

Divorced parents, more than anyone, can feel extremely vulnerable during disasters, especially if you are counting on investments to help you shore up...

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Egyptian Media Defects Highlighted by Local Journalists

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

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Magda Abu-Fadil

Journalists working for major state-run dailies and television channels have revealed, off the record, that senior officials in their news organizations were corrupt, abused power, and lined their pockets at taxpayers' expense.

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Egypt Neighbors Plus Hillary

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Egypt Riots, Saudi, Political Cartoons, Politics News
Jeff Danziger

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Tunisian Media's Quantum Leap to the Next Level?

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

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Magda Abu-Fadil

As a journalist who reported from Tunisia during the Ben Ali era, I can attest to his regime's constraints on freedom of speech and the press. Even checking my innocuous business email account was an ordeal -- I had to go to an embassy to do it.

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Pledge of Peace

Judie Fein | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Republicans, Saudi, Polarization, Peace, Democrats, Pledge, Iran, Tea Party, Keeping an Open Mind, Open Heart, Healthy Living News
Judie Fein

There's this organ in the middle of my chest that obliges me every second of every day by beating. It can be wounded, disarmed and stunned, but it kee...

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Egyptian Clampdown on Press Freedom Gaining Pace

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

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Magda Abu-Fadil

Noted, controversial media figures critical of the Egyptian regime are being sacked ahead of legislative elections in November.

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Your Guide to Lebanon's Messy Politics and Impending Civil War

Hussain Abdul-Hussain | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Hezbollah and Damascus have tried their sticks, by invading Beirut and Mount Lebanon, and carrots, through the formation of a cabinet under Hariri. Yet they remain desperate to see Hariri denounce the tribunal.

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Gay Saudi Diplomat Seeks Asylum In U.S.

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A Saudi diplomat in Los Angeles reportedly has asked for political asylum in the United States, claiming his life is in danger if he is...

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Remaking the Middle East in Syria's Image

Hussain Abdul-Hussain | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Syria's vision of a New Middle East has made its way to Foreign Policy magazine, months after being printed in the Washington Post by the same authors.

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Lebanese-Israeli Clashes: What Really Happened

Hussain Abdul-Hussain | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Assumptions that a full scale war between Hezbollah and Israel is brewing is mere pundit talk.

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Poetic Justice in a Pint Sized Pistol: Hissa Hillal, Live! from The Land of Invisible Women

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

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Qanta Ahmed, MD

This is why Hissa Hillal's poetry is such a colossal cultural moment: not merely because one Saudi woman has had the courage to speak out, but because of the cascading, tumultuous conversation this will certainly uncork. Like a gathering storm, a cloudburst of cultural rebellion is mounting.

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'Saudi Royal' Quizzed Over Death At 5-Star London Hotel

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: London, Landmark Hotel, Murder, England, Saudi Arabia, Saudi, Saudi Prince, Landmark Hotel London, Marylebone, World News

The Independent || Chris Greenwood Detectives were quizzing a man claiming to be part of the Saudi Arabian royal family today after an assistant was ...

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Who Has the Akbar Zib?

Summer Qassim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Summer Qassim

The Saudi rejection of Mr. Akbar Zib can be justified on the grounds of refusing to repeatedly pronounce an offensive slang term in Arabic official discourse. But there seems to be more than just prudence at play here.

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Saudi Arabia: Awtan TV Presenters Break New Ground By Wearing Niqab

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

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Until recently you would never have seen women presenting television programmes dressed from head to toe in the niqab or burqa. But on the Saudi relig...

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Saudi Riots Reveal Society's Fissures

Global Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Caryle Murphy KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia -- Within a week, two events on the manicured corniche of this seaside town set tongues wagging and heads sha...

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Controlled experiment

The National Newspaper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saudi Women, Middle East, Middle East Politics, Middle East Conflict, Saudi Arabia, Saudi King Abdullah, Saudi, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kaust, Saudi Arabia Youth, Saudi Arabia Human Rights, World News

In a bustling harbour just north of Jeddah one recent morning, a white 27-metre diving yacht was nosing its way slowly toward the open Red Sea. It was...

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Arab Responsibility, Not Rhetoric

Edgar M. Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestinian State, Middle East, Saudi, Golan Heights, Palestinians, Settlements, Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama Middle East Policy, Israel, Barack Obama, Middle East Peace, World News
Edgar M. Bronfman

After decades of using the plight of the Palestinians as a useful stick with which to beat the West and as an excuse for their own domestic illegitimacies, Arab leaders finally need to be held to account.

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