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Secretary General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit attends the Arab Foreign Ministers extraordinary meeting to discuss the Syrian crisis in Cairo, Egypt December 19, 2016. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Aboul Gheit: Formation of Arab Peacekeeping Force a ‘Very Good Idea’

by Sawsan Abu-Husain | Oct 12, 2017 | Middle East

Cairo- Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit has warned that terrorist organizations “represent a threat to the stability of Arab countries,” welcoming the idea of a joint Arab peacekeeping force. “What’s happening in Syria and Iraq is frightening. There are...

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Opinion: The Egyptian Arab League

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Mar 12, 2016 | Opinion

As students from Washington, we visited Cairo in the early eighties as part of our politics lessons. I do not know why our teacher chose to visit that beautiful old building on Talaat Harb Street known as the Egyptian Diplomatic Club. There we met a number of Egyptian...

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The Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir at the Arab foreign ministers meeting to elect a new secretary general of the Arab League in Cairo yesterday (AFP)

Aboul Gheit is Consensually Appointed as the Eighth Secretary General of the Arab League

by Sawsan Abu-Husain | Mar 11, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

After hours of intensive talks and mediation, Arab foreign ministers agreed on the appointment of former Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit as the Secretary General of the Arab League and Nabil El-Araby’s successor during their meeting in Cairo yesterday. The...