Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

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In this photo taken Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, a Palestinian man walks by a barrier separating the West Bank town of Abu Dis, from east Jerusalem with Arabic graffiti that reads, “PLO, no for negotiations,” seen on the side of Abu Dis, West Bank. Twenty years after the two sides signed the Declaration of Principles […]

Opinion: Did Palestine’s “missed opportunity” ever exist?

by Bakir Oweida | Oct 5, 2013 | Opinion

On Thursday, September 26, Deutsche Presse-Agentur published a statement by Musa Abu Marzouk, deputy chief of Hamas’s political bureau in Gaza, taken from the Palestinian SamaNews website, which said: “Gaza was included in the Camp David [Accord] and there was then an...

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File photo of Asharq Al-Awsat logo. (James Hanna/Asharq Al-Awsat)

Opinion: A third of a century of Asharq Al-Awsat

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jul 4, 2013 | Opinion

Newspapers are not to be measured by how old they are rather by the impact they achieve. I believe no other Arabic newspaper has had the same impact as Asharq Al-Awsat since its first international issue was published. Its name, green-tinted pages, Saudi owners,...

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Arab Republic of Egypt

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 11, 2012 | Country Brief

[map id=”countryBriefMapIn” w=”676″ h=”350″ z=”7″ maptype=”TERRAIN” address=”Cairo, Egypt” marker=”yes”] Timeline • 1859: Work on the Suez Canal project, an artificial waterway...