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Ministers and representatives of the Arab League meet at the Dead Sea in Jordan, March 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Muntasser Akour)

Arab Foreign Ministers Finalize Summit Documents

by Thaer Abbas, Sawsan Abu Hussein, Mohammed al-Daamah | Mar 28, 2017 | Middle East

Dead Sea (Jordan) – Arab foreign ministers put the final touches on the main documents, which will be discussed by the Arab League Summit leaders in the Dead Sea on Wednesday. Arab ministerial sources told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that an “unprecedented atmosphere”...

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Inger Andersen, World Bank Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa, hands Israeli Regional Development Minister Sylvan Shalom a document as they sign an agreement with Jordan and the Palestinians at the World Bank in Washington, DC on December 9, 2013 to construct a Red Sea-Dead Sea pipeline to carry water north and slow down the desiccation of the Dead Sea. (AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMM)

Middle East water deal brings Red Sea-Dead Sea pipeline one step closer

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 10, 2013 | Middle East

Washington, Reuters—Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority on Monday signed a water-sharing agreement that includes the building of a desalination plant on the Gulf of Aqaba and a pilot study for a pipeline linking the Red Sea with the Dead Sea, the World Bank...

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A photograph supplied by thePalestinian Authority shows Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli President Shimon Peres with US Secretary of State John Kerry as they pose for a three-way handshake, during the World Economic Forum meeting in the Dead Sea, in Jordan, 26 May 2013. Source: EPA/Thaer Ghanaim

Reflections from the Dead Sea

by Mina Al-Oraibi | May 29, 2013 | Majalla Blogs

As over one thousand participants of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa left the Dead Sea this week, they took with them thoughts of a region where change continues to be the only certainty. Changes in leadership in some countries, changes in...