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05/02/2010 - 4:16 pm
Khaleej Times: His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Thursday chaired the Cabinet session held at Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort at Liwa in the Western Region in the presence of Lt-General Shaikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, and Shaikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs.
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05/02/2010
Saudi Gazette: The world has been challenged by King Abdullah’s initiative to continue to build bridges between civilizations and cultures, according to UN High Representative of the Alliance of Civilization (AoC), Jorge Sampaio, the former president of Portugal.
05/02/2010
Gulf Times: Qatar and France signed yesterday an agreement on judicial co-operation.
HE Attorney General Dr Ali bin Fetais al-Marri and the French Minister of Justice Michele Alliot-Marie signed the agreement here.
05/02/2010
AFP: Shia rebels in north Yemen said yesterday 14 people, including women and children, had been killed by Saudi warplanes more than a week after the group pulled out of Saudi territory on the border.
05/02/2010
AFP: A senior Iranian military official told Gulf states yesterday not to squander money on US missiles, boasting that Iran can render them useless, the state news agency IRNA reported.
Adnan Ahmed Ramahi - 29/05/2009
Gulf states battling to attract settlers
French President Sarkozy, the opening of the first naval base, a permanent French military presence in the Arabian Gulf, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, and it will not be the first French military bases in the Gulf, but also the only outside Africa, and the rooms will open the UAE's sovereignty permanent military base in a strategic location near the Strait of Hormuz and will include those
By Katya Adler - 08/04/2009
www.bbc.co.uk This was my first visit to Qatar and I admit I failed in one of my main missions, to get under the skin of the country.
On Qatar Airways, I met Filipino cabin crew.
The airport ground staff were Pakistani, the hotel receptionist, Sri Lankan, the barista who made my cappuccino on the way to the Arab Summit, Nepali.
By Simeon Kerr in Dubai - 10/02/2009
www.ft.com Growth in Arab Gulf states will almost halve in 2009 on lower than expected oil prices amid the gloomiest global economic outlook in more than half a century, according to the IMF.
By Mark Trevelyan - 18/04/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Gulf states believe Israel will destroy Iran's nuclear programme rather than allow it to acquire an atomic bomb, an adviser to the Kuwaiti government and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said on Tuesday.
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01/02/2010
Mohammad Kamali, Afshin Ratansi and Mustafa G. Abbas
Wednesday, 27th January 2010
Chairman: The challenges faced by Iran have been quite enormous whether it was the eight-year war or the killing of virtually of all the members of parliament, the president and the prime minister.
11/12/2009
The Rise of the Far Right in Europe & the Future of Race Relations
Dr Jim Wolfrey* and Samuel Tarry**
2nd December
Support for far right groups is exploding across Europe. With the world witnessing a financial crisis similar to the thirties that led to the rise of Hitler, far right parties are gaining a strong hold in the society.
18/01/2010
Open Discussions
in conjunction with
Gulf Cultural Club
invites you to a discussion entitled
Iran: internal and external challenges
Speakers: Ahmad Kamali*, Afshin Ratansi** and Mustafa G. Abbas***
Date: Wednesday, 27th January 2010
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Abrar House, 45 Crawford Place. W1H 4LP
Nearest Station: Edgware Road
18/12/2009
Gabriele vom Bruck
F o r e w o r d b y F r e d H a l l i d a y
Cover design by Eugene Kuo
Cover photograph Muhammad b. Muhammad Zabarah,
historian (right), and his son Ahmad, the late Mufti of
the Republic of Yemen, 1940s.
middle eastern studies
“This highly original book offers fresh insight into how traditional ideas of person, society, and responsibility, reworked in the cauldron of revolution and rapidly changing economic and political conditions, remain central to understanding contemporary society and identity politics.
23/06/2009
Life of the Ayatollah
AUTHOR: Baqer Moin
This is a new edition of the bestselling biography of the Iranian leader who influenced the current global Islamic revival.When the Ayatollah Khomeini burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s, radical Islam became a factor of political life that would change the world. And with the Iranian Revolution that Khomeini led in 1978/79, religion once more moved centre stage in world politics.
05/05/2009
Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has been undergoing a monumental crisis. Buffeted by powerful adverse currents, Islamic civilization today is a shadow of its former self.
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