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Jordanian Prime Minister Nader Dahabi will visit Damascus today in an effort to strengthen ties with the Arab community. He and members of the Jordanian private sector will be discussing economic relations with Syrian officials, focusing on trade between the two countries. They will also be reviewing Wihdeh Dam issues because of their electricity interconnectivity project as well [...]
In an earlier post, we reported that an Egyptian lawyer has sued the Egyptian government over the gas deal between Egypt and Israel. According to Al Jazeera, an Egyptian court has overruled a controversial 20-year deal on gas exports to Israel. Judges ruled in favor of Ibrahim Yousri, a lawyer who says that Egypt is [...]
An Egyptian judge issued strict guidelines Monday limiting what could be reported about the trial of a well-connected Egyptian tycoon accused of ordering the murder of a Lebanese pop star. After throwing television cameras out of the courtroom Sunday, Judge al-Muhammadi Qunsuwa allowed reporters to attend Monday’s session — as long as they didn’t have [...]
An Egyptian court sentenced two policemen to three years in prison on Saturday for hooking a man to their car and dragging him along the street until he died, a judicial official told Reuters. The court found police captain Mohamed Sadaawi and police officer Ahmed Abdel-All guilty of manslaughter and bailed them for 2,000 Egyptian pounds [...]
Rauf Amin Mohammad al-Arabi had worked for the Saudi royal family for 15 years, up until recently when he prescribed morphine to a princess after she suffered injuries in a riding accident. According to the BBC, some reports state that she had previously received the drugs in the US and requested specific medication. The morphine [...]
The current laws in Saudi Arabia make it difficult to acquire work visas and iqamas (official identity cards, needed to work any job in Saudi Arabia) for highly qualified positions. Despite the complexity for white collar jobs, it remains fairly easy to obtain a work visa and iqama for laboring jobs in Saudi Arabia. According [...]
According to an Egyptian security official, large numbers of Egyptian security forces have been ordered on Wednesday to Egypt-Israel border area in the Sinai Peninsula in an attempt to stave off any further strife with restive Bedouin tribes. Due to the fact that a Bedouin smuggler was shot to death by border officials, angry tribesmen [...]
Bedouins in Sinai wounded an Egyptian policeman in a drive-by shooting on Thursday, security sources told Reuters, in the latest manifestation of explosive tensions between the two sides. A 22-year-old policeman was shot three times in the right leg and left foot, and is being treated in hospital in the North Sinai capital, El Arish, [...]
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak came to Lebanon’s defense once again. He said that Egypt will continue to support Lebanon just as they had when Sadat was president. According to Mubarak, “[Egypt] still back[s] Lebanon and would never stop backing it.” He has met with the current President of Lebanon, Michel Suleiman, even before he was [...]
A court in Egypt has upheld a complaint brought by the Egyptian government against the Cairo News Company (CNC) and imposed a fine of 150,000 Egyptian pounds (($27,000) on the news agency. The court ruled on Sunday that CNC was in breach of media-related permissions and authorized the fine for possessing equipment without a permit, [...]
