Category Archives: Libya

Arab Spring Hits Washington….

Posted on July 1, 2011 by tikroot

….well not exactly. The Arab Spring is a hot topic around Washington D.C., and below are summaries of recent Middle East related events that I found interesting. First, this is a video of a joint anti-Bashar and anti-Gaddafi protest outside the White … Continue reading →

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Weekly Roundup 6/19

Posted on June 19, 2011 by tikroot

Picture: King Abdullah of Jordan Jordan: – This week King Abdullah gave a speech outlining political reforms that could take place. The full text can be found online. The speech came a week before the King is set to visit … Continue reading →

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Weekly Roundup 6/11

Posted on June 11, 2011 by tikroot

Picture: The Siege of Misrata (Foreign Policy) Libya: – This fighting intensified in Misrata, a city that has been under siege by Qaddafi’s troops for two months. At least 17 were killed. – The international community is taking a mixed … Continue reading →

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UN Human Rights Report on Libya and Bassiouni Update on Egypt

Posted on June 10, 2011 by tikroot

M. Cherif Bassiouni is a former Nobel Prize nominee, a Professor at the DePaul University College of Law and the President of Egyptian American Society of Illinois. Below is the summary section (full version here) of the recently released human … Continue reading →

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Weekly Roundup 6/5

Posted on June 6, 2011 by tikroot

Saleh Leaves Yemen- Change Square Celebration (by Amel Ahmed) Yemen – Violence continued to rage in Sana’a this week, but in Tiaz the government was also cracking down hard. At least 50 people were killed, and a number of them … Continue reading →

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Weekly Roundup 5/28

Posted on May 28, 2011 by tikroot

Yemen: – Great timeline of the Yemeni revolution up until May 22nd, which was the anniversary of the 1990 unification of North and South Yemen. – On May 22nd Saleh was supposed to sign the GCC agreement, which called for … Continue reading →

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Weekly Roundup 5/21

Posted on May 21, 2011 by tikroot

< Obama Speech: – On Thursday, President Obama gave a 45-minute speech on America’s foreign policy in the Middle East, given the change that has swept the region. Mideast Reports posted video and analysis of the speech on the blog. … Continue reading →

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Obama’s Middle East Policy Speech

Posted on May 19, 2011 by tikroot

Part I: By Andrew Lieber How you decide to view Obama’s speech will inevitably depend on the expectations you went into it with. If you expected to hear him upend decades of relative continuity in US Policy towards the Arabic world as … Continue reading →

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Opinion: Expectations for Obama Speech

Posted on May 19, 2011 by tikroot

Author’s note: this was written very quickly, so I’d love to hear your thoughts. President Obama is scheduled to speak tomorrow from the State Department about the Middle East. This comes a day after the White House slapped sanctions on … Continue reading →

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Weekly Roundup (5/13)

Posted on May 13, 2011 by tikroot

Syria: -This week the regime’s assault on protestors ramped up in Baniyas, Homs (second link here) and Hama, among other cities. -Assad is clearly following the strategy of ‘[crushing] dissent town by town.’ – Aleppo has started to see protests … Continue reading →

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