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Darfur Crisis Offers Arab League a Chance to Shine

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home

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To say the League of Arab States hasn't had the best relations with the United States would be an understatement. The 22-member organization is as o...

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Arab Broadcast Forum Lays Bare "Muzzling" Media Charter

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.05.2008 | Media

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Magda Abu-Fadil

Participants at an Arab media conference this week ripped through a proposal seen as a precursor to stricter laws and a crackdown on maverick news channels challenging repressive regimes.

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Arab Broadcast Charter: Take Two

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 04.04.2008 | Home

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Magda Abu-Fadil

Lebanon, considered the last bastion of press freedom in the Arab world, has succumbed and signed the Arab broadcast charter approved by the region's ...

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Condi's Middle East Mirage

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

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Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Rice is putting the finishing touches on a legacy that will add yet one more failure to her excruciating and unending list of diplomatic disasters in the region.

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