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There followed a week of night-time riots in areas with large African and Arab communities in and around the capital.

nasser backed the arab insurgents , so the french were as eager as the british to see the back of him.

As he said last week in Washington, the chief advantage for the Arab countries in dealing with China is the lack of political baggage.

Syria's response to the Arab League's suspension: just a sort of hard line everyone expected.

But Palestinians say they cannot get building permits and that Israel is trying to drive Arab residents out of Jerusalem.

He said that Britain, France and Arab nations would take the lead, and that United States ground forces would not enter Libya.

Somewhere ahead of him were a group of fedayeen, Arab guerrilla fighters, who had come to attack the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom.

Given the growth of political Islam, and the fact that Mr Pollack deems many Arab countries to be on the point of revolution, perhaps not.

Speaking from Tripoli, Lebanon, he said the strong Israeli response has radicalized Arab public opinion in the region.

What creditors do not yet know, however, is whether the United Arab Emirates is capable of a co-ordinated response to Dubai's debt woes.

The Arab League said such a solution must be "agreed" upon, but there seems no prospect of that any time soon.

She said discussions on joint action were underway with some Arab countries, but Egypt said it would not be involved in any attacks.

"The Arab revolutions have scrambled power dynamics and shattered security forces across the region, " she said.

He said the Arab state of affairs remains troubled and tense.

Netanyahu said he would meet any Arab leader to talk about peace and called on the Palestinians to immediately restart peace talks.

Still, Egypt's press remains relatively free compared with that of its Arab neighbours.

They lent him pearl-handled pistols and a superb chestnut horse "with more than a touch of Arab to his brow" to take him across the plains.

The Arab League has been trying to convince the Syrian government to ease its violent crackdown on an uprising by demonstrators.

For the western world, the "Arab spring" threatens to be a classic case of good news and bad news.

Let's take a look at the Arab world and the national protests that seem to be spreading like wildfire from one country to another.

Dubai City was just a small village until Dubai, along with Abu Dhabi and four other emirates , formed the United Arab Emirates in 1971.

It's a view that no doubt would have been met with astonishment in Arab capitals, where America's image remains largely negative.

Predicting disaster in the Arab world has become something of a cottage industry.

With the Arab spring turning into a hot summer, the gaze of EU diplomats will no doubt be drawn across the Mediterranean.

It has always been a generalisation to refer to a monolithic Arab world.

Indeed, Mohammed and I were both suckled by Arab wet nurses (my family was living in Palestine at the time, before Israel came into being).

It is really as surprising as if an Arab caravan were to ask: Are there sands in the Sahara desert?

The Arab made himself as small as he could. It wasn't at all comfortable, and sleep was now out of the problem.

THE more enthusiastic are calling it a "hibiscus revolution" , in honour of both Malaysia's national flower and the Arab awakening.

A few Arab leaders recognise that water and energy profligacy must be curbed if ecological disaster is to be avoided.

Kousa said the Arab and Libyan people appreciated China's promotion of justice in the international arena and its support for Arab justice.

Now France has put an air force behind its fine words, with military strikes against an Arab leader that would once have been unthinkable.

Under United Arab Emirates law, none of those luxury villas in Dubai can be seized until criminal prosecutions are seen to have begun.

But a preliminary report from the Arab Democracy Foundation says those irregularities did not affect the election.

And this time, without sitting up, the Arab drew his knife and held it out towards me in the sun.

Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he has no objection to the U. S. plan for a new arms sales package for Arab countries.

Arab leaders, just like those of any other country, remain desperate for a secure back channel to Washington.

He liked to listen to Arab music on an old cassette player, and he would change his clothes several times a day.

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said the meeting was a milestone in the history of China-Arab relations.

The " natural " course of action for an Arab woman these days never mind an Arab queen is often not the most accepted one.

President Obama said the U. S. , Britain, France, and Arab states agreed the cease-fire must be implemented immediately.

"China is ready to join hands with the Arab side to boost new progress of our cooperation, in a bid to benefit the two peoples, " said Yang.

During the question-and-answer session that followed, a woman in the audience nodded approvingly and told me, "You write like an Arab. "

She said the ongoing NATO campaign against Gadhafi came from both the Arab League and the United Nations.

Originally from Ireland, Niall taught for a year in the United Arab Emirates before coming to China.

An Arab uprising against us, which the Germans were definitely trying to foment, would have been disastrous.

Eleven days after Mr Ben Ali's fall, the children of the region's most populous nation brought revolution to the heart of the Arab world.

Arab leaders began their Kuwait summit, Monday, amid discord, and ended it, a day later, amid more discord.

The state was avowedly secular and went further than any other Arab country in clamping down on signs of religiosity.

Arab media reports say women at the factory and its distribution operations are proud to work for her.

A major conference involving the coalition countries and the Arab League is to be held in London.

When Obama flew to Cairo a few days later to deliver a landmark speech to the Arab and Muslim world, Mubarak did not attend.

The only hint of menace was the number of people wearing face masks. But that was to keep off flu, not to resemble the Arab street.

Ahram [his site's Arab-language sister newspaper] today is still as bad in professional terms as it used to be.

The historic discrediting of Arab nationalism with the failure of Nasserism in Egypt is no doubt one reason for this.

The revolutionary fervor of the past year has no doubt affected the Arab word's diverse economies differently.

The Arab League, which first called for international intervention six months ago, said the events were a "historic moment" .

On balance, the Arab world is in far better shape than it was less than a year ago.

The Arab empire, ruled by the Umayyad Dynasty , was the largest state in history up to that point.

With the right beard and clothes he could pass as an Arab; jeans and a t-shirt made him look more Western.

And it was only after they failed to garner real support in the Arab world that they ran back to Afghanistan and began to target the West.

People will continue to wrangle over relations between the state and religion in the Arab world, just as they did for centuries in Europe.

You are right to say that there cannot be any democracy in the Arab world without the participation of the Islamists.

Succession in each Arab state seems to follow its own rules and, after Mr Mubarak dies, a power-grabbing junta cannot be ruled out.

Mitchell is trying to hammer out a compromise before the Arab League meets Friday in Libya to discuss the fate of the peace talks.

Arab fought African, although the populations have mixed so much, it is often hard for an outsider to tell who is who.

Arab Iraqis reject this dream, fearing that Kurdish secession would destroy their country and, by the by, cost it a lot of oil.

Israel, as well as Arab countries, he said, should adopt Lebanon's government model of democracy, separating church and government.

IF YOU don't own your citizens' loyalty, perhaps you can rent it for a while. That seems to be the mantra of Arab regimes at the moment.

Darna, in particular, is said to have contributed a bigger proportion of jihadist fighters in Iraq than any other Arab city.

Nowadays, nobody is trying to improve America's relations with the Middle East by marrying off the Bush twins to Arab princes.

He said it was dangerous for France to be seen as part of a "western bloc against the Arab and Muslim world" .

Nelson Mandela I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel , within secure borders .

A woman, disguised in an Arab man's robes and headdress, slipped into a line of Army recruits and detonated explosives strapped to her body.

THE citizens of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) do not enjoy a vote but they relish a bit of artistic agitation.

In no other Arab nation is the desire to retrieve lost stature likely to be so significant.

Egypt is well placed and willing to serve as an active bridge connecting China, Arab and African nations, he said.

He said he hopes there will be no U. S. objection to the latest Arab draft.

He said: "The Arab League will not be any Arab country to make decisions for the channel. "

The Arab uprisings hold out the long-term prospect of a more stable and prosperous neighbourhood south of the Mediterranean.

Conditions in which immigrants are expected to work have been a subject of discussion in the United Arab Emirates for many years.

BlackBerry addicts may not be able to get their fix the next time they visit the United Arab Emirates.

The only ground on which the Arab world and then the United Nations could agree on the use of force was the protection of Libyan civilians.

The scion of a prominent Sunni Arab family, he took the job two years ago after his predecessor, his cousin, was assassinated.

One of the two outsiders invited to the discussions was an Arab Jesuit with uncompromising views.

Europe's leaders are now trying to disown their years of realpolitik, and instead make the cry of the Arab street their own.

What Zogby wants Obama to deliver in Cairo is nothing less than a breakthrough in the Arab-Israeli conflict, he said.

We stand ready to work with the Arab side to carry forward the Bandung Spirit and promote South-South cooperation.

With Libya, there was "a very clear call for the sort of action that we have now taken" from the Arab League and the United Nations.

The West does not seem to notice the steady deterioration in human rights in Turkey, instead extolling it as a model for the Arab spring.

It has nonetheless come as a shock to many Americans to find themselves plunged so abruptly into a new war in an Arab country.

The Grand Senoussi was one of the first authentic Arab national rulers and opponents of European colonialism of the modern era.

He began to idolize President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, who preached Arab unity and socialism after deposing the king in a 1952 coup.

It was good enough to beat out all the competitors mentioned above in a recent bidding process in the United Arab Emirates.

Still crouching in his corner, the Arab sits with his hands clasped around his feet.

But a more apt parallel may now be Palestine, where the British gave up holding the ring between Arab and Jew and left them to it.

The U. S. president will seek Arab support to help contain Iran when his tour takes him to Gulf countries and Egypt.

True, there have been protests in a few African countries since the onset of the so-called Arab Spring, but the results have been mixed.

Since the UK is not an Arab country sitting next to Egypt we are going to hear a lot of complaining about social media.

THE most complete so far in the chain of upheavals to rock the Arab world, Libya's revolution seems to have come surprisingly well packaged.

Bahrain is the only Arab state so far in the oil-rich Persian Gulf beset by unrest amid protests across much of the rest of the Mideast.

Suddenly the Arab took out a knife, pressed a button and began to stab Glue.

The counterterrorism relationship with Tunisia, where the Arab Spring movement began, also remains strong, he said.

Since then, rumors about the nature of his wounds have abounded, and some Arab news reports said he had pieces of wood embedded in his body.

S. policy. The Arab League boycott of Israel is the principal foreign economic boycott with which U. S. companies must be concerned.

Mr. Hurd was speaking to Arab reporters in London on the eve of his visits to Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

A few days ago, while everyone was watching events unfold across the Arab world, an intriguing document came across my desk.

The seventh son, Seif al-Arab, was believed killed in an air raid, with his brothers acting as pall bearers.

Although the rest of Iraq has been a lot quieter, violence along the Arab-Kurdish border (the "trigger line" ) has been rising.

If he is allowed to crush the opposition, it would chill pro-democracy movements across the Arab world.

But he was not so widely perceived as a western lackey as some Arab leaders accused of putting outside interests before those of his people.

The singer was found slain in her United Arab Emirates apartment in July. She had been stabbed and her throat slit.

Fakih, who moved to the United States as a baby, is believed to be the first Arab-American and Muslim to hold the title of Miss USA.

A peaceful end to what was a rather peaceful week in Asia despite the backdrop of unrest that still dominates Japan and the Arab world.

From America's point of view, what was supposed to be a showpiece of Arab democracy gifted by Uncle Sam is becoming a fiasco .

The long marriage between Sudan's Arab-and-Muslim north and its black, animist and Christian south was always unequal and unhappy.

There was also uncertainty in western capitals about the extent to which Arab states are backing the operation.

We asked Salem, one of Bouazizi's brothers, what his brother in heaven might have hoped his sacrifice would bring to the Arab world.

But now that Western and Arab armed forces are trying to protect civilians and rebels, casualties are unacceptable.

The Arab League "follow-up committee" is due to meet in Cairo to discuss the current diplomatic impasse in the next few days.

And more notably, it was the first time we were able to speak publicly and freely in an Arab capital.

Iran, which once held so much sway, is not talked of as a model: theocracy does not appeal to the youngsters on the Arab street.

An unveiling movement had begun to sweep across the Arab world, gaining momentum with the spread of education.

But the U. S. 's hesitant initial embrace of the revolt could reverberate as a democratic wave surges across the Arab world.

The UN resolution makes no mention of such a thing, though many Western and Arab leaders have said they want the colonel to go.

As an Arab Muslim, watching and hearing news on what went on in Palestine and Iraq had gotten to a nauseating point with me.

The North African country of Tunisia is at the vanguard of the popular, anti-government uprisings spreading across the Arab world.

Ceylon, with its central position, was the place where Chinese merchants met with Arab merchants and heard about the westernmost lands.

Sooner or later, the Arab world will rid itself of these furious madmen, who cling to power even if it means multiple massacres.

What began as an indigenous peaceful Arab uprising against authoritarian rule could collapse into a spectacle of war and intervention.

When I found myself up against these angry Arab League ministers it was as head of the UN's development arm.

A remarkable feature of the Arab revolts is the degree to which almost every incident is documented, usually by cellphone camera images.

To please audiences in the Arab world, where the family's financial interests predominantly lay, such a posture would be seen as craven.

Syria is calling for an emergency meeting of the Arab League and asking for a delegation to be sent before Wednesday.

Arab countries are beginning to realise that the best way to deal with Israel is to copy its vibrant economy.

The Libyan leader was an admirer of the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser and his Arab socialist and nationalist ideology.

Thus, another unpleasant truth: The Western democratic model has no appeal to much of the Arab world.

Per head, the income of the wealthiest Muslim country (the United Arab Emirates) is 200 times that of the poorest (Somalia).

African-Arab Relations of the OAU period occupies an important place in the contemporary history of African-Arab Relations.

Mr al-Arabi said the reform package he discussed in Damascus will now be put to the council of the Arab League on Monday.

At this meeting the Kurds walked out when others wanted to keep the word "Arab" in the name of the Syrian Republic.

The US and its allies welcomed an Arab League statement endorsing the no-fly zone, but Washington insists such a plan remains a contingency.

Arab women await deliverance from the dark cage of veiling to a promised garden of enlightenment.

Chavez proposed peace plan for the Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa said the initiative "under study. " U. S.

The Arab Spring appeared to flagging a few months ago, as Libya's opposition suffered setbacks even as Syria's regime dug-in.

Negotiations have stalled for over a year. The Arab League welcomed the news.

We are of the view that it is a lawful appeal for the Palestinian people to found a capital on the occupied Arab territory.

Egypt is sort of the beacon or marker for security tension, for dangers with the Arab world.

The traditional Arab greeting was a kiss on the cheek, and he wanted no part of that.

At the time he was little known in the United States, at best considered one of the many volatile leaders in the Arab world.

More extraordinary was that the call to action was led by France and Britain and invited by the Arab League.

"The attack resulted in the martyrdom of brother Saif al-Arab Gaddafi and three of the leader's grandchildren, " he said.

I stood up and since I felt like talking, I said, rather haphazardly in fact, that I hadn't intended to kill the Arab.

According to the uncle, bin Laden said he was the focus of several "assassination" attempts by Arab and U.

It is no accident that the minority of Arab League members who declined to go along with that decision includes Algeria, Lebanon and Iraq.

He began a complicated maneuver strengthening his position in the Arab world while inching Egypt toward a more realistic national posture.

Beyond the lust for oil and lazy equation of autocracy with stability, western leaders have had a blind spot about Arab countries.

As you seem so inspired by the Arab world, do you think it affected your life as an American citizen?

Golda Meir was the inspirational leader of Israel, a nation surrounded by hostile Arab neighbors that refused to concede its right to exist.

Her bait is a promise to the Arab world that she will put more American muscle behind the creation of a Palestinian state.

The name Allah for God was not the Arab name for God at the time, as the Arabs had many deities.

Polling since the Arab Spring shows little change in regional attitudes toward the United States.

The United Arab Republic bad feel as if infected the entire unit, the own basket fell into 5 minute score uncultivated land.

Sex in the Arab world is, theoretically at least, confined to "state-registered, family-approved, religiously sanctioned matrimony" .

Just as bad, from Israel's point of view, it helps feed antipathy towards Israel, not just in the Arab and Muslim worlds, but in Europe too.

As with the broader Arab-Israeli conflict, religion, history, and land are at the heart of this dispute.

The Arab League held an emergency session to ask the international community to increase pressure on Israel to lift the blockade.

To attempt to service these expectations (beyond the resolution) would be to lose the moral high ground and the Arab street.

The chief of these was that Mr Bush wanted Arab democracy on the cheap.

The United Arab Emirates-based Gulf News quoted the boy's father as saying that the children had exchanged rings.

Instead its leadership sees the turmoil across the Arab world as confirmation of its ascendancy as a regional power, and America's decline.

Israeli archaeologists are scraping away the eastern parts of the city's Arab surface in search of a Jewish past.

'The Arab League should be approached to pay for that war, ' Republican Sen. Richard Lugar told reporters just before hostilities began.

The U. S. has tried to rally Arab pressure on Hamas, only to see it grow stronger.

Some point to Islam as a factor, others to the clannish and paternalistic nature of Arab societies.

On the other side of the Middle East divide stand the Sunni Arab countries, the US and its democracy interests, and, of course, Israel.

Breisinger said the Arab world has a number of factors that make it distinct from other regions.

Scarcely a week passes without an Israeli newspaper heralding new Jewish housing units being built in Arab districts.

Last March, China said the world should stay out of the Arab Spring.

Yemen's Jews, who speak Arabic, hark back to a time when it was possible to have a shared Jewish and Arab identity.

AS PUBLIC protest in Tehran seems to dwindle, at any rate on the streets, many Arab leaders are quietly exhaling a sigh of relief.

Often depicted as the archetypal autocratic Arab leader, he has never been seen as particularly imaginative.

What if the new one eventually delivers the greatest of the Arab nations into the patient hands of a hostile Muslim Brotherhood?

As an Arab sociologist puts it, in a tribal society you do not buy loyalty, you only rent it.

It should have been a moment for the Arab world to cherish.

IT WAS considered a corner of the Arab world least likely to catch the backwash of anger swilling around the region.

the other the largest in terms of population in the Arab world, with a high rate of illiteracy and ever widening inequality.

Authorities in Iraq say unidentified gunmen have killed a Sunni Arab tribal chief, three of his sons and a close relative.

But this traditional diplomatic approach ignores the networked nature of the Arab Spring.

But plonking an American army in the heart of the Arab world was always a gamble. It demanded the highest seriousness and careful planning.

"The Arab spring has been a great inspiration to us, " says Billy Mayaya, head of Malawi's Civil and Political Space Platform.

Ibrahim said the attack, the Saif Al Arab "is, and his parents, nephews, nieces and other visitors to chat, and play. "

In 1947, the United Nations voted to partition the land into a Jewish state and an Arab state.

But they do not pursue jihad against the West and refrain from attacking the prerogatives or legitimacy of the Arab regimes.

Yet, in this week's standoff with the jihadist Arab group known as Fatah al-Islam, the Army has shown that it has muscle.

TO SEE an Arab country shaking off the shackles of despotism is a rare and unalloyed joy.

And is the relationship in danger from the wind of change rattling Egypt and the wider Arab world?

As an Arab and a Muslim, there was nothing much I can benefit from what Obama has to say.

Arab-Americans said the line played on stereotypes and asked that it be removed.

The capital of the United Arab Emirates was also seen as a strong US ally.

As the Libyan regime totters, it no longer seems hyperbolic to call the events in the Middle East, "the Arab 1989" .

The secretary general of the Arab League said that the Syrian government had told him it would welcome a visit.

Several of the Arab countries represented in the President's office needed the United States to fend off threats from rapacious neighbors.

If that situation emerges, the U. S. , as well as its Western and Arab allies, will face a set of vexing questions.

CNN journalists used smartphones during the Arab spring to "get right into the heart of the story" .

Dubai said the United Arab Emirates carriers would stop flying to Syria next week.

He said that China has always been Iraq's friend and a friend of the Arab world.

Anyway haven't Europeans spent the best part of the past decade complaining that Americans do not properly understand the Arab world.

A speech in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, was touted as the keynote of his seven-country tour.

An Arab is going to have open-heart surgery. The doctor is preparing the blood transfusion.

The proposal includes dialogue between Colonel Gadhafi and Libyan insurgents, supported by an Arab League fact-finding mission.

The United Arab Emirates provided an air ambulance for Yousafzai's trip abroad.

Over the last decade, the threadbare credibility and legitimacy of Arab regimes was undermined by the information revolution.

As the great Arab historian Ibn Khaldun observed: "Only Tribes held together by a group feeling can survive in a desert. "

The anger of the many educated but unemployed young people has been a driving force in the Arab Spring movement.

It should also be noted that it is the capitalist class in the U. S. and the E. U. that are against liberty in the Arab World.

The State Department was pressing for a diplomatic solution to reduce Arab's resentment of the United States.

The ponderous official theme was the internet "as a catalyst for change" , with a lot of nodding to WikiLeaks and the Arab spring.

ANERA also has agreed to help deliver medical supplies donated by the National Arab American Medical Association Michigan chapter (NAAMA).

In the beginning of the 1st Century AD Arab tribes began to settle in Oman.

Our report had been written by a group of Arab policy experts, so we were free of the charge of western meddling.

However, given their place in traditional Arab culture, many Muslims overlook the rule.

The court backed Jewish settlers who produced documents showing that the property was legally purchased from its former Arab owner.

The Arab League-sponsored Taif Agreement of 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the war.

How really wants to have a look to fight Spain to be able again, war Italy is also good, an Arab League Chauvin nova, I regarded him.

Egypt and Jordan are the only Arab countries to have signed peace deals with Israel.

United Nations officials estimate that Arab countries have at least five hundred thousand users of illegal drugs.

Hamas will survive, and with it that strain in Arab thinking which says that a Jewish state does not belong in the Middle East.

Police cited a ruling by Israel's Supreme Court that the houses belong to Jews and that the Arab families had been living there illegally.

UNTIL the Arab awakening reached Libya, protesters seemed able to prevail armed with little more than self-belief.

His crew decided to become pirates and their first attack was on an Arab ship that was carrying treasure.

"Arab money made Carlyle what it is, " said the head of the investment bank of one major financial institution in Dubai.

The E. U. 's rejection of Turkey, a hugely bad move, has been a key factor prompting Turkey to move closer to Iran and the Arab world.

This was a percussion concert performed by "Red Poppy, " a top Chinese female percussion band which is now on a debut in the Arab world.

Observers of politics in the Arab world and the broader Middle East continue to scrutinize China's place in the region.

The Arab resolution condemning Israeli settlements by and large reflects the opinion of the world as well as the United States.

Jordan is a key U. S. ally in the region and has a peace deal with Israel, the only other major Arab state with one besides Egypt.

State department officials said they were still reaching out to Arab governments to attend the conference.

Mitchell said once the Palestinian issue is resolved, the U. S. will push for a comprehensive peace between Israel and the Arab world.

If I were an Arab monarch or a dictator like Bashar Assad of Syria, I'd certainly wouldn't be happy about what I've been watching in Cairo.

In a land of hardship and resignation and deep faith, the disaster along the Shatt al Arab appears to some as the work of a higher power.

If the "fever under the surface" does eventually transform Arab politics and society, what direction will the change take?

One can only hope with this liberation that Egypt can now start to catch up with history and become a leading model for Arab development.

A public declaration in this sense would be very useful for its propagandistic effect on the Arab peoples at this moment.

People in the Arab world do not share the general suppositions of the Western world.

Mr Mubarak, like the rest of the Arab world's autocrats, will be pondering the despot's eternal dilemma.

Much Arab opinion remained fixated on the struggle with Israel, in which the Arabs seemed unable to hold their own, let alone prevail.

Most of the men are sleeping forward , for it is near midnight , but a stout, swarthy Arab, Mahomed by name, stands at the tiller .

The events in Sudan and Egypt are linked to one another and are part of the project to balkanize the Arab World and the Middle East.

"In the Arab countries you feel like an Israeli, and here in Israel you feel like an Arab, " Ms Sabbah comments in the film.