Former US President Donald Trumpâs daughter, Tiffany, has announced her engagement to her Lebanese partner Michael Boulos this week. The engagement pictures were taken on Tuesday at the White House, a few hours before her father left the office. Tiffany took to social media to express her excitement. âIt has been …
Read More »The Taste of the Earth: Medallions of Memory in the Poetry of Hedy Habra
Hedy Habra, The Taste of the Earth  (Winston-Salem, NC: Press 53, 2019). By Layla Azmi Goushey In June 2020, I had the good fortune to attend a virtual poetry reading where Hedy Habra, author of the recently-published poetry collection, The Taste of the Earth, read selections from her work. …
Read More »Where Trump Learned the Art of the Quid Pro Quo
The president has been mixing money and politics since his early days in New York. By Andrea Bernstein*- Appeared first on The Atlantic | On a debate stage during the 2016 Republican primary, Donald Trump explained why heâd given money to Democratic politicians: âI give to many people,â he …
Read More »Netanyahuâs wife to pay thousands over fraud case
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuâs wife, Sara, has reached a plea bargain in a fraud case over allegedly misusing state funds to order catered meals, Israel Radio said on Wednesday. Under the agreement, she will pay the state 45,000 shekels ($12,400) in reimbursement and a 10,000-shekel fine while admitting a lesser …
Read More »Trump Reportedly Sought to Assassinate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
After Bashar al-Assad attacked his own citizens with chemical weapons, President Trump sought to assassinate the Syrian president. âLetâs fucking kill him! Letâs go in. Letâs kill the fucking lot of them,â the president reportedly told Defense Secretary Jim Mattis last year, according to an excerpt from reporter Bob Woodwardâs …
Read More »Fake news about UAE condemned by Kerala chief minister
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has condemned some Indian media spreading fake news about Abu Dhabi Crown Prince. “This (fake news), is an insult to all Indians,” the chief minister wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday. Vijayan referred to the Gulf News report exposing the political agenda of some …
Read More »Fasting and Feasting on the Egyptian TV Screen: The Shadow of the President to the Rescue
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD â Another season of maniacal television is over and done with the passing of another Egyptian Ramadan. But only just. The episodes had to extend into the Eid to finish themselves off. And you had to wait a day or two afterwards to be able to …
Read More »Between the Lines, Youth and Hope in the Middle East
By Sayde Tawk Political turmoil is usually the major topic covered by regional and world media outlets about the Middle East. However, between the lines of such reporting you will find some brighter aspects of a region where culture, history, tradition, art, hope, solidarity and, most important, a lively …
Read More »Will Yemen kick-off the ‘War of the two Blocs?’
By Sharmine Narwani* for RT– There is media confusion about what is going on in Yemen and the broader Middle East. Pundits are pointing out that the US is looking schizophrenic with policies that back opposite sides of the fight against al-Qaeda-style extremism in Iraq and in Yemen. But it …
Read More »Power shift in Turkish politics change the game with Russia
THE LEVANT – By Hasan S. Ăzertem and Habibe Ăzdal – Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the first publicly held presidential elections in the first round, albeit with a narrow margin of 1.7 per cent. In the aftermath of the elections, Erdogan and the AK Party have chosen to delay the …
Read More »The rise to power – How Haider Al Abadi became prime minister
THE LEVANT – Pressure on Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki to step aside had become unbearable. Sunnis, Kurds, fellow Shias, regional power broker Iran and the United States all wanted him out. Maliki calculated he may have one more chance to hold onto power after eight years in office, even though …
Read More »Massive security deployment around Baghdad “green zone”
THE LEVANT – A political showdown loomed in Baghdad as Nuri al-Maliki appeared determined Tuesday not to go down without a fight after his replacement as prime minister was internationally acclaimed. Washington urged his successor, Haidar al-Abadi, to rapidly form a broad-based government able to unite Iraqis in the fight …
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