Searching for the leader sperm in Lebanon
Lebanese probably have the funniest humor in the world. Is there anything these guys can take seriously? Maybe they should get serious this time. Amidst all their joking and partying the Lebanese have come to a point where “rien ne va plus”. Everybody is sitting on a razor’s edge. Stress levels are skyrocketing and anxiety has become the nation’s characteristic disease.
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The property regime: Mecca and the politics of redevelopment in Saudi Arabia
The 1990 Gulf War was a watershed in the history of the modern Middle East, one that altered the political economies of the region as well as state-society relations therein. In Saudi Arabia, the anti-regime popular mobilizations that had emerged during the war, coupled with the post-war global economic recession, shaped the ways in which the ruling Al Saud monarchy managed its monopoly on power and economic resources.
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Top 5 reasons Obama defeated GOP, AIPAC effort to vote down Iran Deal
40 Democratic senators and two independent senators stood with President Obama on Thursday, preventing any congressional condemnation of the UN Security Council’s Vienna agreement with Iran over its civilian nuclear enrichment program. By the genteel rules of the senate, proponents of the censure vote needed 60 senators to prevent a filibuster. They had 58.
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