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Check this publication
"Building a Successful Palestinian State", published by the RAND Palestinian State Study Team.

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Posted by Tarek Hoteit at 11:10 AM | Permalink | Comments

Check Ghawar (Dured Laham) movies:
Maqaleb Ghawar, Hamem El-Hana and Sah El-Nom movie clips.

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Posted by Tarek Hoteit at 7:27 AM | Permalink | Comments

Pulse of Freedom's latest photos slideshow on Flickr

Check it out, as it shows pictures of Lebanese people united and under one Lebanese flag.

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Posted by Tarek Hoteit at 11:36 AM | Permalink | Comments

Aljazeera.Net - Iran looking to buy bankrupt carmaker

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Posted by Tarek Hoteit at 8:25 AM | Permalink | Comments

On April 23, BBC World is hosting a debate on role of Arab women in societies, especially their rights to vote and their plans for the future.

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Posted by Tarek Hoteit at 5:07 PM | Permalink | Comments

The United Nations Human Development Program (UNDP) has released its third out of four reports on Arab human development. Contrary to the first two reports that focused on Arab deficits and knowledge gap, this report focused on politics, reforms and freedom in the Arab world.
Click here for an executive summary of the report. You can either support the international organization and purchase the report from UNDP site (arabic/french/english) or download the report for free.

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Posted by Tarek Hoteit at 7:30 AM | Permalink | Comments

A report produced by the Arab League and UNICEF said that half of the women in the Arab world are illiterate and more than 10 million children are out of school. Mortality rate among under-five children is 60 for every 1000 births, compared to 6 in industrialized countries.



let's discuss it at the Arabian Circle Forum

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Posted by Tarek Hoteit at 6:55 AM | Permalink | Comments

World Economic Forum released a much-needed 2005 Arab Competetitiveness report.



Quoted from MenaFn's summary of the report: "High levels of unemployment, insufficient access to information, overdependence on the energy sector and a productive structure dominated by the public sector are highlighted as the common challenges faced by the Arab world"

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Posted by Tarek Hoteit at 10:05 AM | Permalink | Comments