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Arabs forced to leave
 The Sustainable Arab Human Development report published by the
United Nations Development Program in 2002 showed that more
than 50 percent of all Arab youth prefer leaving their
countries heading to favorite destinations such as the US and
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NEWS & REPORTS
Rallies protest US
policies
BEIRUT -
Alternative staff
Between the mid
Sep. and mid Oct., the world witnessed several developments
including the holding of a worldwide demonstration protesting
several issues including the American hegemony and wars.
Israel attacks Syria for
the first time since 1973
BEIRUT -
Mohammed Hasbini
The highlight of
regional news during the past month was Israel’s air raid on
Ain al-Saheb, North West of Damascus. The raid was the first
Israeli offensive against Syria in the last 30 years since the
1973 October war.
Young cleric forms his
own government
BAGHDAD - Sami
Orfali
Young Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr, son of Mohammed Sadeq Sadr
who was assassinated the densely populated Shiite suburb of
Thawra in 1999, formed what he described as the “legitimate
and national government.”
Always-seducing Haifa
invited to attract sports fans
BEIRUT - Elias
Shartouni
The Lebanese
version of late American seduction queen Marlin Monro or the
famous American singer Madona has been dominating the thinking
and much of the conversations of the Lebanese and the Arab
people.
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EDITORIALS
Arab youth flee injustice
Like most Arab
political groups, the ruling National Party in Egypt is facing
a severe problem: Its aging leadership. But from time to time,
such aging and outdated parties promote new policies that aim
at installing new and young leadership.
It’s democracy indeed
The Arab
political culture is certainly failing Arabs of all ages – and
by the same token Westerners living in the Arab world –
involved in public affairs. The first victim of this failure
has been a very precious notion: democracy.
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Op-Ed
South Korea succeeded
where WTO often failed
By Lea Sawaya
NICOSIA - The
failure of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) five-days
talks in Cancun, Mexico, in mid-September proved that the
win-win notion and a world free of trade barriers is an
idealistic if not romantic concept that in practice is just
trying to reach freer trade and not free trade.
Jammoul’s fighters should
be revered, honored and offered a descent living
By Hussein
Salloum
BEIRUT -
Palestinian fighters were forced to leave Lebanon heading to
Tunisia after a deal was brokered in the aftermath of the
Israeli invasion of the Lebanese capital in the summer of
1982.
Ethnic profiling:
Barbarians at the gate?
By Karim Farra
WAGHINGTON -
Ever been questioned by United States immigration police? Ever
been escorted by an armed guard into an interrogation room for
apparently no good reason? Do you think that as an
international student at an Ivy League university these
incidents would never happen to you? Well, think again.
Attaching social activity
to guerrilla warfare has become imperative
By Kamal
Sanjakdar
BEIRUT - Reform
seekers, freedom fighters and resistance forces should adopt
new methods in the struggle for their objectives.
Think not what your
country can do for you...
By Hassan Makki
ARIZONA - I
always knew I wanted to be in the US, but I never narrowed it
down to a city or a state, and I find it especially amusing
that I ended up in Arizona, a state I never even knew existed
not even as the setting of the Coyote cartoons. But here I am
now, resident of Phoenix Arizona.
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FEATURES
Economist slams policies
BEIRUT - Kamal
Sanjakdar
Economist Kamal
Hamdan blame post war governments for the nation’s 24 percent
of unemployment saying the number could have risen to 35
percent had it not been for immigration.
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HISTORY & CULTURE
Japanese Red Army kills
26 in Lod Operation in 1972
The Palestinian
armed struggle against the Israel has taken on many forms,
ranging from routine military operations against conventional
targets to inventive missions that left Israelis both puzzled
and stricken.
Your introduction to
differentiating between capitalism and leftism
In order to understand leftist thought, one ought to
understand its so to speak ancestor, capitalism. The latter
can be summed up through highlighting the theory of Adam
Smith, the first and foremost 18th century economist who put
capitalism in words.
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LIGHT NEWS
International College
back to the days of strict missionaries
By Moussa Fneish
Leading Lebanese
school the International College (IC) took radical measures
with the beginning of this academic year that certainly
affected its student behavior. IC implemented a strict dress
code thus curbing a school where catwalk and fashion are as
popular as academic and other kinds of student activity.
Russian Church defrocks
priest who married gays, Lebanese gay caught in Egypt
The Russian
Orthodox Church said earlier in October it had defrocked the
priest who conducted Russia's first reported gay wedding amid
fierce worldwide debate over the Christian church's attitude
to homosexuality.
Thinker Sharabi slams the
Arab patriarchal society
BEIRUT - Hussain
Abdul-Hussain
Georgetown’s
professor emeritus Hisham Sharabi argues that the only way for
reform in the Arab world starts with the liberation of women
and eventually the dismantling of the dominant patriarchal
society.
All combatants lost in
Lebanese civil war save for Ariel Sharon
BEIRUT - Kamal
Sanjakdar
A movie entitled
The Labyrinth is the first Middle East-produced movie about
the Lebanese war. The movie depicts two major chapters of the
war namely the Israeli invasion in 1982 and the clashes that
erupted between the Lebanese Forces and the Lebanese Army in
the late eighties.
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Youth
Administration-controlled
weeklies now appearing in lousy Outlook
By Samer Mazloum
Youth
publications in the Arab world – both online and in print –
are rare, mostly influenced by their sponsors and censored by
their university’s administration.
Communist Students hold
annual workshop in Nabatieh
BEIRUT - Youth
expelled from the Lebanese Communist Party (LCP) held a
workshop to further develop their political stances and
ideological background a couple of weeks ago in Nabatieh.
Progressive Youth
Organization slams administration in a statement
BEIRUT - The
Progressive Youth Organization (PYO), a faction of Chouf MP
Walid Jumblatt’s Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), said in a
statement last month that the administration at the American
University of Beirut should live up to its standards and offer
a service that was worth its high tuition.
Free Patriotic Movement
said there will be no group without Aoun
PARIS –
Supporters of the former Army Commander General Michel Aoun
refused invitation from friends and other groups to abandon
the “General” and pursue their sociopolitical activity
independently.
Elections fever hit
private universities
November marks
the month of excessive meetings, alliances and preparation for
student elections that are scheduled in most private
universities sometime during mid-November.
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