Middle East Experience

Reductions in credit quality ratings coupled with risk realization could lead to an overall tightening of the global financial environment
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Bank of Israel report shows Israeli financial system might be at risk

The US could agree to put a hold on plans to send additional forces into the Gulf. In return, Iran would agree not to target US its ships or drones.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: The U.S. can’t be a lone cowboy and bring Iran to the table, says former envoy

There were no deaths reported.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Thousands of Gazans protest along border fence for weekly riots

Sudan’s pro-democracy movement on Saturday abandoned plans for marches next week, after it reached a power-sharing deal with the ruling military council following a weekslong standoff over the
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Sudan protesters cancel marches in wake of agreement

Egypt gives its companies and institutions an opportunity to be in the middle of cooperation between the two sides..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Cairo pins hopes on diplomatic outreach to Africa

So, the Ergenekon acquittals are a reminder of the golden rule that Turkish rulers followed across decades: To benefit from eternal impunity, when in power, you must grant your predecessors their hard-gained immunity from prosecution..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Ergenekon case reflects Turkey’s culture of impunity

A source in Jordan's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority warned the game 'had negative effects on its users, which led to its being officially blocked'..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Jordan bans online game PUBG over 'negative effects'

Leaving aside its ideological support for the Muslim Brotherhood, Turkey has major economic interests in Libya..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Libya’s strife escalates and widens in scope, so does Turkey’s involvement

The crisis in Lebanon is not the intra-Druze strife that some are seeking to ignite or at least to fabricate. It’s the crisis of Lebanon as a whole, of the country’s destiny, of the tension in every street and within each sect and in each region..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: The intra-Druze crisis is that of the whole of Lebanon

Ehud Barak is attempting to face off against a government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Democratic Israel: Ehud Barak's new party revealed