 | Syria reaches out for growth
Asia Times | By Stephen Starr | DAMASCUS - Sitting in his plush new office in an up-market neighborhood of Damascus, deputy prime minister for economic affairs Abdullah Dardari - the man tipped to be named Syria... (photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi) | |
| Damascus Market Mideast Photos Syria |
 | EGYPT: Efforts to fight "black cloud" in Cairo
IRINnews web | Photo: Dana Hazeen/IRIN DUBAI, 9 October 2008 (IRIN) - "Black cloud", a mass of polluted air which darkens the skies of the Egyptian capital in October-November, is less severe this year, but ef... (photo: WN / Aldrin Leyba) | |
| Egypt Environment Photos Pollution Society |
 Mubarak pardons health-row editor
BBC News | Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has pardoned a newspaper editor sentenced to jail for publishing an article questioning his state of health. | Ibrahim Issa was last month given a two-month jail sen... (photo: AP / Nasser Nasser) |
| Court Egypt Mideast Photos Politics |
 Egypt police stop Gaza convoy
San Diego CAIRO, Egypt - Dozens of activists, mostly from Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood, were arrested Monday after attempting to send a supply convoy to the blockaded Gaza Strip, the organization and s... (photo: AP / Tara Todras-Whitehill) |
| Cairo Egypt Gaza Photos Police |
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 Dubai reaches for sky with plan for tallest tower - one kilometre high
The Guardian Confident Gulf state's glitzy building will incorporate traditional Islamic styles | Dubai, emirate of extravagance and superlatives, laid claim to an extraordinary new r... (photo: (AP Photo / Kamran Jebreili)) |
| Business Dubai Economy Islam Photos |
 Dubai unveils plan for new world's highest skyscraper
Houston Chronicle | DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - With its world's tallest building nearing completion, Dubai said Sunday it is embarking on an even more ambitious skyscraper: one that wil... (photo: Creative Commons / ru:User:Vlsergey) |
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 Stop accusing each other
Gulf News | The latest round of Muslim infighting, between Shiites and Sunnis, was remarkable, as it involved one of the most respected - yet controversial - Sunni scholars: the Qa... (photo: AP Photo) |
| Controversial Muslim Photos Scholars Sunni |
 Internet generation versus Brotherhood's conservatives
Gulf News | Cairo: He was a boy in the mosques of Alexandria when the Muslim Brotherhood took him into its fold, inviting him to soccer matches and trips to the seaside. | The Brot... (photo: AP) |
| Alexandria Cairo Internet Muslim Photos |
 New Tut exhibit in Dallas has the wow factor
Austin American Statesman | LONDON — Mark Lach, the celebrated designer of the Tutankhamun exhibits, admits that some have panned the latest Tut display for being a bit too "theme park-y." |... (photo: GFDL file) |
| Art Culture London Photos Tourism |
 Israel accuses N. Korea of aiding Mideast
Canoe By George Jahn, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | VIENNA, Austria - Israel accused North Korea on Saturday of covertly supplying at least half a dozen Mideast countries with nuclear... (photo: AP / Sebastian Scheiner) |
| Israel Korea Mideast Nuclear Photos |
 Oil find in Egypt
Boston Herald | CAIRO, Egypt - Circle Oil and Premier Oil said todaythat they have struck oil in their onshore North West Gemsa Concession in Egypt. | Initial, sustained production was... (photo: creative commons / J RAWLS) |
| Cairo Egypt Oil Photos Production |
