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1. Eric Walberg

(Contacts / Writers)

... German, Spanish and Arabic and are accessible at his website ericwalberg.com. Walberg is author of Postmodern Imperialism Geopolitics and the Great Games (2011). A version of this article appeared at EricWalberg.com. ...

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2. Uncertainty Stalks Ethiopia, the Tigray Region and the Horn of Africa

(Horn of Africa)

... Israel, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and other Arabic countries in the region. Sudan officially joined the accords on January 6, paving the way for normalisation of relations between Israel and Sudan. Disclaimer: ...

Created on 07 January 2021

3. Africa Alliance Launched to Combat Misinformation on COVID-19

(Africa)

... Fact Check, the East African PesaCheck, the West African Dubawa and Meedan, a forum for cross-language conversation and media sharing in Arabic and English. Commenting on the new Alliance, Dr John Nkengasong, ...

Created on 07 December 2020

4. Migrants Prefer Returning to Libya Than Staying in Tunisia

(Africa)

... and food assistance. The aim is to encourage asylum seekers to be independent. “We have a language problem, we don’t know how to communicate in Arabic,” explains Amanuel. Here, only Jonah speaks English, ...

Created on 02 September 2020

5. Mali Facing Worst Civil Unrest in Years

(Africa)

... to Mali, the European Union and the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) have been sounding out Imam Dicko. Originally a teacher of Arabic, the imam studied in Saudi Arabia and became the ...

Created on 13 July 2020

6. Africans Mourn the Passing of a Distinguished Thinker and two Outstanding Artists

(Africa)

... Here are three noted Africans who passed this year just as thousands of lives were tragically lost to the coronavirus worldwide. Dr. Mansour Khalid, a prolific author in both Arabic and English, exposed ...

Created on 28 April 2020

7. COVID-19: UN Agencies Working Round the Clock to Ensure Humanitarian Support

(Health & Well Being)

... this pandemic" without discriminating. He noted that warnings about the virus issued by the Israeli Ministry of Health were almost exclusively in Hebrew, with virtually no information posted in Arabic. ...

Created on 23 March 2020

8. Sri Lanka Committed to Non-Proliferation and Disarmament

(Asia-Pacific)

... only in official languages of the United Nations: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. The NPT and CTBT texts are included in two publications. The third publication relates to the ...

Created on 31 January 2020

9. Rohingya Refugee Children Want to Learn, Says UNICEF

(Asia-Pacific)

... provide free lessons in Koranic studies, Arabic and other subjects; and private and group tutors offer classes for those who can afford them. By June 2019, the overall education sector had provided non-formal ...

Created on 18 August 2019

10. An Aborted University and Squandered Opportunity in Sri Lanka

(Asia-Pacific)

... offered, except may be in the coverage of Arabic and Islamic studies. Even in those studies they are unable break the hold of Islamic orthodoxy. Yet, not one of them so far had been able to attain a ...

Created on 19 July 2019

11. Afghani Teenager in Kyrgyzstan Plunges into Learning

(Central Asia)

... And actually he still uses the Arabic script to write in Kyrgyz and later changes it to the Cyrillic script when it comes to taking notes, writing essays and using phone. In this religiously liberal ...

Created on 17 July 2019

12. There’s Only One Way Out of the Global Coffee Crisis: Pay More

(OPINION)

... here.” On the international markets, coffee prices are at their lowest ever in real terms. In May 2019, Arabica beans were trading at 86 cents a pound on the International Commodities Exchange (ICE) ...

Created on 02 July 2019

13. UN Partners with Dataminr to Keep UN Teams Abreast of Crises

(UN INSIDER)

... social media content in Arabic—channels that would normally be inaccessible. To be able to see content from local residents who do not have large, international followings and to gain insight into situations ...

Created on 01 July 2019

14. Buddhist Kingdom of Thailand Caters to Muslim Tourists

(Asia-Pacific)

...  A special Muslim-friendly travel application was launched by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) two years ago to help Muslim travellers in Thailand and has been enhanced with translations into Arabic ...

Created on 12 May 2019

15. Russia Targets Foreign Students to Boost Image Abroad

(Quality Education)

... French, Spanish and Arabic, and it has been published on the website. The main purpose of the website, study in Russia, is to attract foreign students to study at Russian Universities. In an IDN interview, ...

Created on 10 May 2019

16. Karzai Blames U.S., Pakistan For Afghanistan Chaos

(Asia-Pacific)

... of non-government forces. Violence is on the increase. After 16 years of our campaign against extremism and terrorism we still have new terrorist groups emerging in Afghanistan. Daesh (an Arabic name for ...

Created on 13 June 2018

17. What the Prophet Implied and What Sustains Fundamentalists

(OPINION)

... 9.29 and also 22.39-40. A new book, “Crusade and Jihad” by the esteemed William Polk, who taught Arabic literature and history at Harvard, is the latest writer to obfuscate this debate. It is a brilliant ...

Created on 06 March 2018