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Making Israel-Palestine a good place to live
Friday, 21 October 2011, 11:04 am | Common Ground News Service
There’s something very disconcerting about a recently conducted Israeli public opinion poll. The survey, undertaken for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth at the beginning of this month, revealed that 66 per cent of Israeli Jews don’t believe ... More >>
Muslim Americans find ways to engage
Friday, 21 October 2011, 11:00 am | Common Ground News Service
In August 2011 the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center released a report in which the key finding was that Muslim Americans are among the most integrated and successful citizens in the United States. More >>
Protecting the US-Bahraini relationship
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 10:33 am | Common Ground News Service
The United States has maintained a key security relationship with Bahrain since 1947, demonstrated most visibly by the headquarters of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet located in Manama. As the political situation in Bahrain continues to deteriorate, however, ... More >>
Free media in Tunisia, from illusion to reality
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 10:27 am | Common Ground News Service
Immediately after the 14 January uprising, Tunisians experienced the illusion of a free and prosperous society. Tunisian journalists have enjoyed newfound freedom in print and broadcast media, which under President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali had been ... More >>
Lebanese women fight revolution through football
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 10:19 am | Common Ground News Service
Lebanese women are fighting a silent revolution on the football field through the popular club programme of the Cross Cultures Project Association (CCPA) in Lebanon, which provides educational activities for those in post-conflict countries. More >>
Reciprocity, mutuality – keys to Mid-East peacemaking
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 10:15 am | Common Ground News Service
Dear President Abbas and Prime Minister Netanyahu, Welcome home. You both did a fine job at the UN and represented the cause of your peoples’ struggle for existence and peace with great honour. You can both claim victory and come home to a hero’s ... More >>
Barack Obama’s Gaza Test
Thursday, 22 January 2009, 8:53 am | Common Ground News Service
CGN: Ziad Asali and Tom Dine write that Former senator Joe Biden predicted that President Barack Obama would be tested by a foreign policy crisis early in his term. The recent surge of violence in Gaza came even sooner than that. More >>
Is Huntington's Clash of Civilization Idea Wrong?
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 8:26 pm | Common Ground News Service
Robert Ménard, Doha Centre for Media Freedom director-general, considers whether Samuel Huntington, the father of the “clash of civilisations” theory, had it wrong. The notion could challenge the widening chasm between the West and Arab countries. More >>
Politics: Muslims In France Are French First
Wednesday, 3 December 2008, 3:31 pm | Common Ground News Service
CGNS: Those who believe in the “clash of civilisations” also claim that Islam cannot flourish in the West without creating a threat there. However, such talk falls on deaf ears in France where Islam has been present since the Middle Ages. More >>
Mumbai And Obama: Beyond Boots And Bombs
Wednesday, 3 December 2008, 3:16 pm | Common Ground News Service
Via Common Ground News Service - Cambridge, Massachusetts - The terrorist attacks in Mumbai have dramatised how the urgent will often take precedence over the important for the incoming Barack Obama administration. More >>
