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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

The revolutionary ideology was the opiate of the Arab world, distracting citizens from the manifest failure of their rulers.

COMPARED with the other upheavals across the Arab world this year, Tunisia's is still the runaway winner.

Across the Arab world, citizens have stood up to claim their rights.

Much of the progress on women's rights in the Arab world has come as a result of declarations from above, rather than pressure from below.

The real actors did not appear on most television screens or magazine covers, whether in the Arab world or in Western media.

and drivers sounded horns across Cairo as the Arab world's most populous country bid a noisy farewell to 30 years of Mr Mubarak's rule.

In the interim, however, protesters elsewhere in the Arab world might be emboldened by the coalition's willingness to prevent atrocity.

His vision of a modern, peaceful Iraq, and a united Arab world, now seems quaint and obsolete.

Each of these was historically specific to its time and place, as the chain of explosions in the Arab world will be.

SOMETHING strange is happening in a usually quiet corner of the Arab world, often mocked as "the Hashemite kingdom of boredom" .

The democratic wave sweeping across the Arab world won't tolerate US complicity in Israel's decades-long oppression of the Palestinians.

Fearing [the Arab world's revolutionary spirit] would spread, Beijing decided to break Shouwang down.

Across the Arab world, for instance, the price of cooking oil shoots up, since fried sweets are a Ramadan speciality.

But the impulse behind them will have to be recovered in the Arab world, if revolt is to become revolution.

And yet serious reform efforts are conspicuously hard to find in the Arab world.

Across the Arab world, dictators battle their own people; at home, attitudes towards Cameron and Clegg alternate between apathy and outrage.

But with the historic changes sweeping through the Arab world, it's illuminating to go back and read his argument today.

For centuries, Venice was an important trading centre linking Europe with Turkey, the Arab world and the East.

Even in Yemen, the most backward country in the Arab world, thousands of women were among the protesters.

Even as Turkey parades its model before the Arab world, Mr Erdogan should not forget that part of its attraction is its embrace of the EU.

The fact that it has reached Syria speaks volumes about the changing mood and psychology in the Arab world.

In the Arab world, nationalism has too often been a clipped currency.

Reported that, "Any violation against Syria, are equivalent to the U. S. aggression against Syria, Israel and the Arab world's support. "

One of al Qaeda's standard talking points is its insistence that terrorist violence is the only way to bring about change in the Arab world.

The sort of people's power on display in Lebanon in 2005 has not yet expressed itself on a similar scale anywhere else in the Arab world.

The chain of uprisings across the Arab world plainly caught the US and Europe, as well as allied Arab rulers, on the hop.

This has also occurred in recent years in the Arab World, largely as a result of the brunt of neo-liberal reforms and rising food prices.

Star India grows aggressively. News Corp has taken a stake in Rotana, one of the Arab world's biggest media companies.

IPSO is also helping to set up one of the Arab world's first nanotechnology laboratories at Al-Quds University.

For centuries Egypt has been the heart of the Arab world; its trend setter and ideas centre.

But opportunity is boundless, and if the west wishes to recover its standing in the Arab world it must stay firmly on the side of freedom.

For the Arab world, 2012 will be a year of constitution-writing.

Lebanon has long been the small battlefield for competing ideologies and interests from across the Arab world.

Exposure of the internal Palestinian matter, and the Arab world will bring a strong shock wave.

In June, in a speech in Cairo, he thrilled the Arab world, including many Palestinians, by promising that America would be more even-handed.

It is not surprising that revolts across the Arab world have made Beijing particularly jumpy.

But that this happened in the Arab world is surprising because of the low internet usage in these countries.

Without satellite television, a vision of revolution would never have entered living rooms across the Arab world.

The revolutions across the Arab world have been political blood sport. And we, the spectators, are consumed by the contest.

The International Food Policy Research Institute, IFPRI, says its report shows a more realistic picture of the Arab world.

The rash of uprisings across the Arab world right now is "a very interesting phenomenon, " he says.

How hard she worked to get that, casting herself as the curator of female rights across the Arab world.

Together, they form a comprehensive graphic overview of the very best geometric design from the Arab world.

Two months ago, Foreign Policy ran photos of children touched by the revolutions across the Arab world.

Showing the sole of your shoe to someone in the Arab world is a sign of extreme disrespect, and throwing your shoes is even worse.

America considered the assault as an act of imperialism that would inflame the Arab world and benefit the Soviet Union.

But it is a moment bursting with possibilities that could change the face of the Arab world.

The Kremlin insists this autocracy is unusual and in no way resembles the systems that have led to crumbling regimes in the Arab world.

Syria, he now says, is the core of the Arab world; Lebanon is destined to be on its side.

The winds of change may be blowing across the Arab world, rolling from Egypt to Tripoli's Green Square.

Even as late as the early 1990s, watching television in the Arab world was a dispiriting business.

The Suez crisis was a political victory for the Soviets. When the Soviet Union supported Egypt, it gained new friends in the Arab world.

The spark in Tunisia of course fuelled a chain reaction leading to an awakening across the Arab world.

Its ability to transmit these images throughout the Arab world may have given events in Tunisia and Egypt far greater regional resonance.

But one thing is certain: A change of this magnitude in the most populous nation in the Arab World is a devastating blow to the status quo.

Once a centre of Arab learning and an exporter of teachers to the Arab world, Egypt has seen its education standards decline alarmingly.

Syrians appear emboldened by the wave of pro-democracy uprisings across the Arab world.

Moreover, Nasser had used the Palestinians' plight as a convenient rallying-cry to unite the Arab world around his leadership.

This is the Arab world's exit into history -- an exit from a sterile, walled-off place into a land of painful and consequential choices.

There will be post-conference field trips organised to sites within Egypt and other parts of the Arab world and Africa, she promised.

As democracies continue to grow and flourish throughout the Arab world, working with nations like Qatar will become ever more important.

What "victory" can he imagine now, despised by most of his people, isolated in the awakening Arab world?

So far, however, higher education in the Arab world at large has produced few critical minds.

The Arab Spring triggers popular rebellions against autocrats across the Arab world.

But Egypt would be a far bigger prize. It is the most populous country in the Arab world, Cairo its biggest city.

Speaking in Cairo, Mr Obama's call for "a new beginning" with Muslims was applauded by the Arab world.

Revolution in the arab world, as told through the graphics that have accompanied The Economist's coverage.

More significantly, there will be a huge amount of damage limitation to undertake in Afghanistan and the Arab world in particular.

The real issue, though, remains that only the United States, France, and Britain really count in the Arab world crisis.

The protests in the Arab world might never have amounted to much without the use of social media to help organize protests.

To judge by the gale rattling the Arab world this week, he may have to answer such questions rather soon.

Every recent uprising in the Arab world has had some emotional trigger, a tragic death or the commemoration of a brutal incident.

This is partly a reflection of its vibrant economy, but Turkey's real pitch is as a political role model for the Arab world.

Experts say political unrest in the Arab World and protests in Europe have more in common than it may seem.

More recently Islamist parties have found themselves on the right side of the religious revival sweeping the Arab world.

While in a very different historical context, this has also been occurring in today's Arab World.

But it's the Arab world, strangely, that has demonstrated the limits of authoritarianism's appeal and prompted a bout of Chinese paranoia.

Outside of the Arab world claims of American and British military intervention were not taken seriously.

A foreign worker stacks fish traps near the Burj al Arab-world's tallest hotel and icon of the new Dubai.

The French, some say, understood the Arab world rather better than the neoconservatives did.

Mr Dessouki, the former minister, says that the advocates of democracy in the Arab world "are not willing to pay the price of change"

But the statelessness of the Palestinians remains the great unifying cause of the Arab world.

Big street protests have been taking place across the Arab world.

The fall of Colonel Qaddafi would boost democracy and youthful energy across the Arab world.

If democracy can survive and flourish there, that could be meaningful for the promise of democracy in the Arab world.

His dream of a unified Arab world helped inspire convulsions and coups from Lebanon to Iraq.

Look at the great sweep of history, and the maintenance of the status quoin the Arab world was neither possible nor desirable.

The 1967 reunification unleashed a vibrant, hitherto hidden Palestinian literature on the rest of the Arab world.

And, four years ago, you and your colleague Youssef Courbage predicted the unavoidable revolution in the Arab world.

You might choose to believe otherwise, but WE DO NOT have democracy and total freedom of expression in the Arab World.

The number of arrivals started to accelerate after 2001 as relations between the Arab world and the West deteriorated.

The instability in the Arab world claimed its first oil-rich victim over the weekend with the uprising in Libya.

THE world is fearful of Islam's rising influence in Afghanistan, Pakistan and across the newly restive Arab world.

Egypt's leadership in the Arab world was cemented by the Aswan High Dam. Turkey's bid for First World status includes the giant Ataturk Dam.

That said, Mr Fergany does the opposition parties of the Arab world an injustice when he calls them "corpses" .

Recovery is slow, fragile and sensitive to changes, like oil prices being pushed up by the revolution sweeping the Arab world.

The workshop was formed of artists from the Arab world and was composed of screenings of video art.

By the standard of uprisings in the Arab world, the political changes unfolding in Singapore are hardly earth-shattering.

The burgeoning influence of Qatar in the Arab world arouses admiration, suspicion and puzzlement. But its motives are mainly pragmatic.

The reasons for the exceptional degree of Euro-American vigilance and interference in the Arab world are plain.

THE Arab world is more or less a vicious circle. None of its problems will be solved soon.

But such rancour has largely been absent from discussion about President Barack Obama's response to the unfolding drama in the Arab world.

If things go well, the internet and satellite TV will spread that news across the Arab world.

With 85m people, it is the largest country in the region and the heart of the Arab world.

Pakistan, which has as much human talent as India, could use an Akbar. Ditto the Arab world.

That still leaves a huge reservoir for recruits, but they have been hard to spot in the uprisings sweeping the Arab world.

Its 32-year-old peace treaty with Israel remains the main bulwark against a wider war between the Jewish state and the Arab world.

People in the Arab world have to be careful about telling such jokes, and also about laughing at them.

The country also has one of the Arab world's most diversified economies.

"But the failed bomb attack last week has put the international spotlight on the Arab world's poorest country, " she added.

Another is that, given their history of imperial meddling in the Arab world, European countries should stay out of the revolts.

The rioters' political demands were more modest than those of their cousins elsewhere in the Arab world.

Mr Rogan details the slow encroachment of European imperialism into nearly every corner of the Arab world.

Moreover, Tunisia has a chance to set an example for the rest of the Arab world.

None predicted how quickly a flame lit in Tunisia would sweep across the Arab world.

The Arab world includes plenty of sophisticated large investors but few modern companies.

Fifteen years ago, I stood at this very podium, and said that democracy must start to take root in the Arab World.

This is to highlight an incredibly important issue all over the world but especially in Africa and in the Arab world.

For the first time, the Arab world stood with Israel in condemning terror and promising to work against it.

We galumph around the Arab world blindfolded.

China holds an important status in the international pattern, while Saudi Arabia has significant influence in the Arab world.

One Egyptian analyst quipped Senator Mitchell is starting to become "a household name in Egypt and the Arab world. "

And so it seemed, as he flew to Tunis and Cairo to join in celebrations of the Arab world's democratic spring.

The Arab world also needs more highly skilled teachers and classroom environments more conducive to learning.

It reflects a perennial worry in the Arab world about the state of the language.

The Arab world has experienced two decades of political stagnation, says Peter David (interviewed here).

Audiences in the Arab world have been glued to Al Jazeera, which has covered the protests closely.

Demonstrators in December took to the streets in the Arab world and called for his release.

As oil prices surge amid the continuing unrest in the Arab world, importers will look to Saudi Arabia to make up any shortfall.

The impact of Libya's liberation on the rest of the Arab world looks clearer.

I think it will embolden protesters across the Arab world as it is a precedent to oppressive regimes.

The struggle for hegemony over the modern Arab world is as old as Nasser's Egypt.

France, Britain and the US have made much of backing for the action in the Arab world.

Even after the emergence of Islam, the Arab world knew it as the "Bahr Fars" , the Persian Sea.

King Abdullah's remarks coupled with the Arab League's decision marks a turning point in the Arab world's approach to Syria.

Chinese media are reluctant to define what happened in Arab world as revolutions. I totally understand in this regard.

The first abused-children's home in the Arab world, Dar Al Aman offers specialized psychological and physical rehabilitation.

This has certainly damaged Russia's image, Russia's profile, in the Middle East, in the Arab world, in the Muslim world in general.

Egypt has always been the center of gravity of the Arab world and because it drifted these past 30 years, so too did the whole Arab world.

That will be welcome news for women in the Arab world hoping that the new constitutions will improve their lot.

The rise of political Islam is not necessarily cause for alarm among democrats in the West and the Arab world.

The revolutions rocking the Arab world are the inevitable outcome.

The Arab world is full of autocrats who rule their countries by oppressing their people with America's blessing.

This vision for the future of Libya has the support of a broad coalition of countries, including many from the Arab world.

Assad and his regime is certainly showing their true murderous colors and the arab world is SILENT.

His departure overturns, after six decades, the Arab world's original secular dictatorship.

In the Arab world, too, there has been mounting tension between Islamists and secularists, who feel anxious about Islamic groups.

And Hosni could bring in funds from the Arab world as the recession affects Western donors.

"Arab Spring" is the phrase coined by the media to describe the series of popular uprisings in the Arab world that started in early 2011.

The task of proving that the Arab world without its dictators is a better place may yet be a tortuous struggle.

In Tripoli, a northern Lebanese city, Sunni Sheikh Walid Taboush says Russia has lost support throughout the Arab world.

The lot of young people in the Arab world may be difficult, but their woes should not be exaggerated.

The democratic ideal has lately found its way to the Arab world from another direction, by way of the Arab spring.

But his days of flamboyant appearances in New York, the capitals of Europe and the Arab world, are now behind him.

Still, these are slender straws from which to construct a claim that the Arab world is in a "pre-revolutionary" condition.

Whether in Asia or the Arab world, an unknown number of women face an agonising problem having broken a deep taboo.

Mr. Obama raised high expectations in 2009 when he promised a "new beginning" with the Arab world.

These past riots and protests were preludes to the highly tense situations in Egypt, Tunisia, and the Arab World.

In the Arab world and beyond, we will stand up for the dignity and universal rights of all human beings.

Newly-enfranchised citizens in the Arab world face the task of building institutions to entrench the rule of law.

Sind Hind. For several centuries this translation remained a standard text of reference in the Arab world.

SPIEGEL: Is female emancipation the prerequisite for modernization in the Arab world?

The anti-government uprising in Libya quickly became the most violent of all the protests gripping the Arab world.

More than a few people in Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country, agree with Mohamed.

The Arab world may modernize on its own separate path.

He pointed to the Arab world's contemporary exports, including scientific texts.

He was first arrested at age 15 for joining the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, the Arab world's oldest Islamic political organization.

The momentum of Tunisia's street protests overshadowed other instances of dissent in the Arab world.

Egypt's awakening has spread hope across the Arab world.

Much of the Arab world has reached a level of development that is inconsistent with its political system.

As the world marks UN Refugee Day on June 20, the number of people escaping violence across the Arab world is on the rise.

ONE disappointment of Barack Obama's presidency has been his failure to satisfy the expectations he raised in the Arab world.

Bouazizi's sacrifice was experienced by the entire Arab world as a call for uprising.

The French foreign minister's political career has become collateral damage from the upheavals shaking the Arab world.

But now that the Arab world is being remade from within, European policy must change too.

Mr Saleh has survived at the helm of the Arab world's most impoverished country for more than 30 years.

The ban in Saudi Arabia, the Arab world's biggest economy, was due to begin this month.

So I think there are very many similarities between what's happening in Europe and what's happening in the Arab world.

I can't believe your show is watched all across the Arab world.

Global financial markets already were roiled by protests in the Arab world and the impact of rising oil prices.

In 2009, an Economist article mentioned the Arab world's "waithood" problem but shrugged off any possible political impact.

In 2009 such initiatives must gather momentum, reigniting the lamp of learning and discovery that lights the Arab world's way ahead.

Some of the hypocrisy in the Arab world is unspeakable.

From the Arab world to the Wall Street protesters, we are seeing a generation who resent our lifestyle based on debt.

Iraq, Syria's top trading partner in the Arab world, abstained, while Lebanon voted against.

Then again, Palestine is the uniting and almost sacred cause of the Arab world.

Outside the Arab world, in Turkey, Malaysia and Indonesia, Islam and democracy are cohabiting fairly comfortably.

If Egypt's surge of people power is reversed, the whole of the Arab world might sink back into authoritarianism.

In the Arab world there are middle-class Muslims who look with envy at the confidence of their Turkish counterparts.

But after this second Arab awakening, it is clear that the Arab world will never be the same again.

Antep's new links with the Arab world recall its own history.

What happened to the dreams of a united Africa or a united Arab World?

Of course, civilians are suffering and dying in other revolutions in the Arab world.

Only 30 per cent of women participate in the economy in the Arab world, compared with a world average of 55 per cent.

Mubarak praised young people who have stunned the Arab world with unprecedented rallies.

And fourth, it is the home of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most influential television channel (see article).

Islam is bound to play a larger role in government in the Arab world than elsewhere.

Egypt is a fundamental player in the Arab world and the Cuban influence in Latin America is well known.

Calls for reform are stronger in the Arab world than they were in Russia 20 years ago.

Worse, the upheaval in the Arab world may elicit a revolution in Washington, to wit Obama is defeated in the 2012 general election.

In the 1970s and 1980s its higher education system was the envy of the Arab world.

What happened here is going to affect the whole Arab world.

Elsewhere in the Arab world most Jewish communities have shrivelled.

It is important to emphasize that the Arab world is to a large extent not the Third World.

That view is too parochial. Colonel Qaddafi is the Arab world's most violent despot.

In the Arab world, and among Persians too, they receive notably little sympathy.

But Professor Kaldor says the protests have already changed the Arab world.