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• Dubai Metro Launch 09/09/09 at 09H09M09S – Fireworks Around Mall of the Emirates

  
  AutoBeat — Authority: 141
  Dubai Metro Launch 09/09/09 at 09H09M09S - Fireworks Around Mall of the Emirates was uploaded by: ZeeFrench Duration: 147 Rating:
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• Al Qaeda’s Nuclear Scientist? The Case of Adlene Hicheur [Hadron Collider terrorist]

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  Amidst much furor, French anti-terrorism judge Christophe Tessier announced that year-old Algerian-French scientist Dr. Adlene Hicheur had been brought up on charges of “association with terrorists” on October 12. Allegedly in contact with al-Qaeda’s North African affiliate, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), ...
  1 week ago

• Radical Islamists spreading across Africa’s Sahara belt

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 611
  Radical Islamists have moved beyond Algeria where the al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is principally based. These militants have now found support among the Saharan citizens of Mauritania, Mali, and Niger. It has been observed that al-Qaeda rebel movement has been ‘increasingly threatening Africa’s Sahara ...
  2 weeks ago

• Surprising News, Ben Ali gives himself only 89.621111% of vote, reluctantly accepts 5th term

  
  'Aqoul — Authority: 409
  Okay, I made up the 1111 part. Well, just for the entertainment value Tunisian president wins fifth term in office | International | Reuters President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali has won a fifth term with 89.62 percent of the vote in Tunisias presidential election, officials announced on Monday. One opposition party ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

  
  The Toynbee convector — Authority: 127
  This was a Depression, not Crash, song, but it will do to mark the anniversary.The market slid on Thursday October 24 1929, but the catastrophic collapse occurred on Monday and Tuesday, October 28 and 29.The song was written in 1931. The lyrics were by Yip Harburg, the music by Jay Gorney. It was sung by, [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Tunisians Voting in Presidential, Legislative Polls

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Voters in Tunisia started voting Sunday morning to elect their new president and 214 MPs, for the next five years. Three opposition candidates, Ahmed Brahim Ettajdid (former communist), Mohamed Bouchiha (Popular Unity Party,) and Ahmed Inoubli (Unionist Democratic Union), will try to defeat 73-year old Zine el ...
  2 weeks ago

• Links for 10.24.09 to 10.25.09

  
  The Arabist — Authority: 532
  ✪ Power play – The National Newspaper | M. Bazzi on Saudi-Syrian relations. Weirdly makes no mention of Lebanon. ✪ Bikya Masr (BikyaMasr) on Twitter | Report: Ayman Nour attacked by security and NDP thugs in Hurghada. ✪ Algérie-Maroc | Blog on Algerian-Moroccan relations. ✪ Un propagandiste ...
  2 weeks ago

• “The State is an ostrich”

  
  The Moor Next Door — Authority: 445
  Gulagh seg Tizi OuzouArmi d AkdaduUr hekim-en ddeggi aken ellan.Anerez wala aneknuAxir da3wessu Andatsqwiden chifan.Del gherva tura deg qeruGuglagh r ne nfuWaa laquba gger ilfan.²– Si MohandEl Watan ran an article on the “culture of rioting,” that has become common place in Algeria. Its emphasis is primarily ...
  2 weeks ago

• Links for 10.22.09

  
  The Arabist — Authority: 532
  ✪ Corruption au Maghreb: Mode d’emploi | On corruption in the Maghreb, especially Algeria. ✪ Algeria-Watch: Diar Echems ne décolère pas | If you’re interested in following the recent social unrest in Algiers, Algeria-Watch is the place to do it. ✪ Tunisie: une journaliste du “Monde” refoulée à ...
  3 weeks ago

• Middle East & North Africa - Region performs poorly, Israel nose-dives

  
  Reporters Sans Frontires — Authority: 133
  See the World Press Freedom Index Israel cast down by Operation Cast Lead This is the first time that Israel (internal) is not at the head of the Middle Eastern countries in the press freedom index. By falling 47 places to 93rd position, it is now behind Kuwait (60th), United Arab Emirates (86th) and Lebanon ...
  3 weeks ago

• Swarms of Locusts Reported in Mauritania

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Swarms of locusts are currently being reported in many areas in the Aoukar, Inchiri and Nouakchott regions in Mauritania, the director of the National anti- locust center (CNLCCP), Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Babah, revealed here. Ould Babah explained on Monday at a sensitization meeting with development partners in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Arrested ‘Big Bang’ scientist not a terrorist, claims brother

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  London, October 14 (ANI): The brother of the Large Hadron Collider physicist under investigation for having possible links to terrorism has said that the charges are “completely false” and his brother is innocent. On October 13, French authorities placed Adlene Hicheur, a postdoc at the Swiss Federal Institute of ...
  4 weeks ago

• NYT > World: Nuclear Scientist Under Terror Inquiry

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 467
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . A French court placed a physicist at the CERN research center in Switzerland under formal investigation for suspected “conspiracy with a terrorist enterprise.”
  4 weeks ago

• CERN Scientist in Formal Terror Inquiry

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  A French court placed a physicist working at CERN, the huge nuclear research center in Switzerland, under formal investigation on Monday for suspected “conspiracy with a terrorist enterprise.”
  4 weeks ago

• In 2010, both oil and non-oil GDP growth are projected to pick up to around 4 percent, according to the IMF.

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 125
  Oil exporters in the Middle East and North Africa have been directly hit by the global financial crisis through a sharp drop in oil prices and a drying up of capital inflows, but the blow has been softened by countercyclical government spending, according to the IMF’s new regional forecast. The IMF Middle East ...
  4 weeks ago

• Algerian Islamists in the Era of Reconciliation

  
  The Moor Next Door — Authority: 445
  Recently, the Economist ran two articles on Arab politics, one focusing on the Muslim Brotherhood and the other focusing on Arab oppositions in general. In both cases, the Maghreb is poorly address, referenced only in passing in the first one (while curiously leaving out the two Maghrebine that have active branches of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Atomic collider scientist offered to work for al-Qaida

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 590
  Charles Bremner and Adam Sage A FRENCH physicist with the European atomic research centre near Geneva has been charged with terrorism offences after investigators said he offered to work with the North African branch of al-Qaida. Adlene Hicheur , 32, who is of Algerian origin, was arrested last week with ...
  4 weeks ago

• Facing the Nation: “Discours à la Nation de Ould Abdel Aziz à l’occasion de la fin du Ramadan”

  
  The Moor Next Door — Authority: 445
  Here is the text of a fictitious “speech,” written by an anonymous Mauritanian and attributed to President General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, and circulating widely across the Mauritanian internet scene via emails, Facebook, and other media. It lays out especially what many Mauritanians, including many of those who ...
  8 weeks ago

• On Tunisias continuing demographic transition

  
  demography.matters.blog — Authority: 413
  I`d like to point our readers to an interesting article on Tunisias changing demographics. From Tunisias GlobalNet comes the article "La Tunisie se féminise, mais le célibat est mixte" ("Tunisia feminizes, but celibacy remains complex"). My (hopefully not too imperfect) translation of some of the most salient points ...
  8 weeks ago

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