This is the full version as space restrictions in the Middle East Magazine rquired a much shorter one.
The 21st League of Arab Nations summit in Doha, was supposed to be a two day summit of conciliation and dealing with issues ranging from Iranian threats to world financial crisis as wells as the customary Israeli Palestinian settlement, and Palestinian/Palestinian conciliation; but it was cut into one day, most of the agenda ignored.
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The Libyan leader Colonel Mummar Gaddafi lived up to his reputation yesterday by suggesting that King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia was ‘ propelled by fibs towards his grave’ during an Arab summit in the Qatari Capital Doha.
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I was not planning to put this information on my blog, since I thought it to be a personal matter. but since my name has been mentioned, in the past few days, in the media both in print and in blogs and forums, in association with Just Journalism, an organisation from which I resigned as a director on 31 December 2008, I had to alert every one to the fact that I have nothing to do with the organisation any more.
A significant part of the information published was wrong and some claims were false regarding both my identity and my association with Just journalism.
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*This the original piece I wrote before the subs cut and changed it.
Spending Christmas and New Year bound to my sickbed by tubes and drip-feeds, with a mobility of an Egyptian mummy following a complicated surgery on the spine, my heart played with the usage of the word ‘siege’, as I reflected on the conditions of the silent majority of non-partisan Gazans in the thick of a bloody war.
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y Adel Darwish
Youssef Chahine earned the title “the pioneer of social realism” in Egyptian cinema. His country once had the fourth largest film industry in the world; and it has been an important tool in securing Egypt’s cultural dominance in the Arabic-speaking world since the 1920s.
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My fellow reporters covering the Middle East, admit that the narrative of reporting Israel has changed in the British media, making the job of Israel’s new ambassador to London an unprecedented challenge.
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Dear Irish people:
Please give Sarkozy a kick he remembers until the end of his EU presidency.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy heads to Dublin today trying to con the Irish into buying the famous ‘dead parrot’ after it was rejected when went on display in the Netherlands and they couldn’t find a buyer in his own land, even if they gave the dead parrot another name ‘EU treaty’ hoping to con customers that it was not the dead European constitution.
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Events are shadows foretold before…. By Adel Darwish
The arena where Egyptian liberal opposition and the regime have been fighting each others seems to have changed. They moved the new phase of their increasingly heating, but still amusing to watch, struggle from the media screen, newspapers’ pages and the streets where heavy-handed police confront vigils and marches; into cyber space: blogs, facebook, you-tube and my- space have become the battle-ground for the virtual war of ideas, claims and counter claims…. events that were foreshadowed in the movie Matrix. (more…)