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IRAQ: Elections Bring Joy and Uncertainty

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IRAQ: Are Kurds' Days of Kingmaking Over?

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JORDAN: Where Iraqi Women Are Also Fathers

MIDEAST: Iran, Israel Spoiling for a Fight?

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MIDEAST: Israeli Left Emerges From Coma Amid Atrocities

Q&A: 'Israeli Siege Causing De-development of Gaza'

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EGYPT: U.N. Slams Abuse of Emergency Law
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - Despite diplomatic maneuvering designed to block any review of its human rights record, a United Nations special rapporteur has told the U.N. Human Rights Council that proposed changes in Egypt's constitution "would create a permanent legal state of emergency".
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MIDEAST: Iran, Israel Spoiling for a Fight?
Analysis by Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - Iran and Israel appear to be spoiling for a fight, going by recent belligerent statements emanating from several regional capitals.
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RIGHTS: Middle East Women Ahead But Not Home
By Sanjay Suri*- IPS/TerraViva
UNITED NATIONS - Male leaders fail to break the Mideast impasse. Enter women from Israel and the Palestinian territories working together. And… it would have been nice to say they succeeded where the men failed.
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MIDEAST: Israeli Left Emerges From Coma Amid Atrocities
By Mel Frykberg
SHEIKH JARRAH, Occupied East Jerusalem - Amid the wave of violence that swept through the occupied Palestinian West Bank, including East Jerusalem, over the last few days, there are signs that the Israeli left may be emerging from its collective coma.
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IRAQ: Elections Bring Joy and Uncertainty
By Mohammed A. Salih
WASHINGTON - The holding of Iraq's third parliamentary elections on Sunday has generated a sense of satisfaction in Washington, but there is a feeling of anxiety about how the post-election negotiation process to form a new government might proceed.
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Q&A: 'Israeli Siege Causing De-development of Gaza'
David Cronin interviews MAHMOUD ABU RAHMA, Gazan human rights worker
BRUSSELS - For the first time since September 2006, Mahmoud Abu Rahma, a leading figure in the Palestinian human rights group Al Mezan, has been granted permission to travel outside Gaza.
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MIDEAST: Palestinians Preparing for Statehood Anyhow
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - Was it Yasser Arafat's biggest political error? A decade ago, the deadline for the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel as envisaged in the 1993 Oslo peace accords thrust itself into the fruitless Palestinian-Israeli negotiations.
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IRAQ: Secular Candidates Have Their Best Chance
By Mohammed A. Salih
WASHINGTON - As Iraqis go to the polls on Sunday, a key question in the minds of many in Iraq and Washington is whether secular candidates can continue their recent rise and possibly come out as winners.
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MIDEAST: Palestinian Homes on 'David's Garden' Spared for Now
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
SILWAN, Occupied East Jerusalem - Outside the Bedouin-style protest tent in the heart of this Palestinian neighbourhood, the anger is palpable, but controlled.
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RIGHTS: Arab Women Caught Between Extremes
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The status of women in a predominantly male-chauvinistic Arab world continues to fluctuate from one extreme to another.
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MIDEAST: Occupation Turns Palestinian Women Into Breadwinners
By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, with its ubiquitous closures, checkpoints, military raids and arrests, has decimated the Palestinian economy in the West Bank and Gaza.
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MIDEAST: Gap Lingers Between Women's Political and Legal Rights
By Charles Fromm*
WASHINGTON - Last year, Kuwaitis elected their first female members of Parliament. Yet in countries like Yemen, child marriage remains common and personal status laws still discriminate against women in matters concerning marriage, divorce and child custody.
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ENVIRONMENT-LEBANON: Coastal Pollution Threatens Fisherfolk
By Mona Alami
BEIRUT - Pollution, oil spills and difficult living conditions are some of the challenges that fishermen in this eastern Mediterranean country face daily.
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