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lrahman al-Attiyah, former Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, as the new Secretary-General for the League of Arab States, to replace Amr Moussa. The meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the GCC, held in Riyadh last weekend, has supposedly endorsed the Qatari nomination. It is worth noting th
y Council: (1) it allowed two Iranian warships to cross the Suez Canal on their way to Syria; and (2) it permitted Hamas officials to travel though Rafah's crossing, thus reversing President Mubarak's policy on this issue. • Sources claim that Egypt is also determined to improve relations with Syria,
two countries began to consider the resumption of direct flights between the two nations after 32 years. Also in 2010, the head of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, urged member countries to acknowledge the new geopolitical realities in the region: namely, the rise of non-Arab countries such as Turkey and Iran
the popular sentiment in favor of the Palestinian cause, the new Egyptian leadership initiated two important policy shifts. First, it re-opened the Rafah border, which has allowed most residents of Gaza to escape the suffocating siege imposed by Israel. Second, Egypt has played an active role in faci
f the popular sentiment in favor of the Palestinian cause, the new Egyptian leadership initiated two important policy shifts. First, it re-opened the Rafah border, which has allowed most residents of Gaza to escape the suffocating siege imposed by Israel. Second, Egypt has played an active role in facili
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Hosni Mubarak
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Yemen
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Bashar al-Assad
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Bahrain
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Barack Obama
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United States
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Tunisia
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Cairo
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Lebanon
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Tehran
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George W. Bush
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Damascus
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Mahmoud Abbas
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European Parliament
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Saddam Hussein
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Fatah
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Muslim Brotherhood
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Nigeria
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