Category: Middle East

NOVANEWS Dear Friends,   The reports about today’s events (many with killings and/or injuries) are many.  Links to some are below, as well as one full report (on el-Wallaje).  Stats on numbers killed and injured differ from […]

NOVANEWS   Suddenly, to be an Arab has become a good thing. People all over the Arab world feel a sense of pride in shaking off decades of cowed passivity under dictatorships that ruled with […]

NOVANEWS Murdoch editor sees inside Bin Laden love shack Who was behind the Palestine Papers? Serco making a killing from indefinite detention Human rights at stake, says Amnesty, and Wikileaks helped Murdoch editor sees inside […]

NOVANEWS   ““They have lost their credibility in the Arab world, by either covering developments one sided — or completely ignoring them,” said As’ad AbuKhalil, author of the Angry Arab News Service, a widely read blog […]

NOVANEWS Dear friends, 9 items below.  These are unfortunately tempestuous times here; the number of items and their nature reflect this; at least the final 2 are positive in nature.  Those preceding them, less so. Item 1, […]

NOVANEWS Dark words of a private contractor in Afghanistan Arab and Israeli school within Israel is a true rarity Obama getting Middle East advice from non-Middle Easterners If this is not apartheid, the word has […]

NOVANEWS   ‘Is this is what the most moral army in the world does!?’: An American student describes being shot by the Israeli military during a peaceful demonstration From Mississippi to Gaza City: The spirit […]

NOVANEWS The rubble of the 300-ft Pearl monument in Manama, Bahrain erasing a symbol of an uprising that’s inflaming sectarian tensions across the region. | AP Photo/Bahrain TV via APTN By Hannah Allam and Mohannad […]

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, As you can imagine, these are uneasy times.  On the one hand, the possibility of strikes against Iran are again on our news, preparing us for the fate that our government or PM […]

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, 6 items below, which I haven’t time to introduce this evening.  Am on my way out the door in 10 minutes.  However, I think that you will find them interesting, especially the one about […]