Web disturbances set to continue (India and the Middle East)

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Disruption to internet services in south Asia and the Middle East is continuing the day after Mediterranean undersea cables were damaged.

Operations outsourced to India from the UK and US are badly hit, said an industry body, adding that 50% of India's bandwidth was affected.
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Article by :Behnoud

The concept of hand-modified clothing started when I was 15 with a group of friends. We made hand-distressed denim and held shows in the underground parties in northern Tehran. We sold them to the hipster crowd not to make money but to be cool!

Today...

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A recent article in The Indianapolis Star titled “Middle East Academics Disregard the Quest for Balance” by Pierre M. Atlas, assistant professor of political science and director of the Franciscan Center for Global Studies at Marian College discusses the academic quest for “fair and balanced”...

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Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Greeks, Persians, Europeans...the list goes on. Who will control the Middle East today? That is a much bigger question.


Watched it here:

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From East Against West: The First Encounter: The Life of Themistocles (PublishAmerica, 2005) by Dmitry V Shlapentokh, translated from the Russian by Ludmila Prednewa. Book description: "The United States is possibly the last Western empire that has tried to impose the global predominance of the...

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Rashid Khalidi on the Middle East: A Conversation

Q: Perhaps you can give us a sketch of your background and intellectual development?



Rashid Khalidi [RK]: Well, the easiest way to do that is to talk about my...

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دبیر کل حزب الله لبنان: همچنان در نوک پیکان رويارويي

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Ralph Peters, once a Colonel of the US Army, has a map in his newly released book ''Never Quit the Fight'', (Stackpole Books. 2006). According to him, the solution to the Middle East crisis is to dissolve Iran and Iraq into separate little independent republics. Just thought it might be interesting....

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One face of the Iranian community in Los Angeles has been more visible than any other for motorists cruising up and down Santa Monica Boulevard in recent weeks.

To mark the Persian New Year, the impassive image of the last Shah of Iran clad in full military dress, has been staring out...

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PART ONE

گزارش توسعه انساني كه توسط برنامه عمران سازمان ملل منتشر شد،مبناي طرح خاورميانه بزرگ قرار گرفت.

آمريكا بر اساس نتايج اين گزارش...