MetaFilter posts tagged with MiddleEast and arabs

A cry for help from Kurdistan

Artifice_Eternity — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:52:14 -0800

From the faculty at Salahaddin University in Kurdistan: "We as academic staff for the region's biggest Universities attended by different nations including Kurds, Turkman, Assyrians, Chaldeans and Arabs condemn this terrible threat towards our achievements and legitimate rights and express our complete refusal to any Turkish military intervention into the region's territory and affairs."

semmi — Thu, 15 Aug 2002 18:08:46 -0800

Demograhics weighed. More flavor into the melting pot, or more strife as another ethnicity to claim the turf for themselves?

Rastafari — Thu, 04 Apr 2002 20:10:33 -0800

As the violence in the Middle East escalates, and Arab anger grows over American support of Israel (especially among the masses), is another oil embargo possible? Oil may be the Arab world's daily bread, but it's also its only weapon — if, say, Arafat is killed or Israel goes too far in its incursions into Palestinian territories, popular sentiment in the already-shaky local regimes could force Arab governments to put up a show of defiance to calm their constituencies.

Postroad — Mon, 31 Dec 2001 06:13:00 -0800

A Plea For Realism This is the first time I have seen an on-line or paper eminating from the Arab states and serving the Arab/Muslim community suggest a new approach that is peaceful for bringing about a resolution the the chaos that has marked this past year in that area of the world.

Postroad — Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:22:27 -0800

Israel is not the real issue the piece speaks for itself. Many have blamed our foreign policy, our support of Israel, our bombing of Iraq. This view sees a different issue and confrontation.