Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

Media ID: 55342128
Caption:

US President Barack Obama (3rd-L) participates in a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, United States on March 7, 2015. Also pictured are First Lady Michelle Obama (L), US Representative John Lewis (D-GA) (2nd L), former First Lady Laura Bush (2nd R), and former President George W. Bush (R). (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

On Selma anniversary, Obama says racial progress made but more needed

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 8, 2015 | World

Selma, Alabama, Reuters—With a nod to ongoing US racial tension and attempts to limit voting rights, President Barack Obama declared the work of the Civil Rights Movement advanced but unfinished on Saturday on a visit to the Alabama bridge that spawned a landmark...

Media ID: 55315236
Caption:

A woman watches a video of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech” projected onto the side of the Fort Independence in Boston, Massachusetts August 28, 2013, during an event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the speech in Washington. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)

Opinion: The 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s Speech

by Bakir Oweida | Aug 30, 2013 | Opinion

In the week of the 50th anniversary of the famous “I Have a Dream” speech, we must all stand in tribute to Martin Luther King. Of course, it is not impossible to translate King’s famous speech into Arabic. Some of the expressions that are written into...

Media ID: 55315044
Caption:

Tourists look out from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama address, bells to mark 50 years since King’s ‘Dream’ speech

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 28, 2013 | World

Washington, Reuters—Words from the first black US president and bell ringing around the world on Wednesday will mark 50 years to the minute that civil rights leader Martin Luther King ended his landmark “I have a dream” speech. Capping a week long...

Media ID: 55314999
Caption:

Scaffolding surrounds the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on a rainy day in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Opinion: 50 Years of Freedom

by Hussein Shobokshi | Aug 27, 2013 | Opinion

We are facing an interesting paradox this week, namely the 50th Anniversary of one of the most famous and important speeches in modern history. I am referring here to the speech made by African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King before hundreds of...