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THE DIPLOMACY OF THE TUNISIAN PEOPLE AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE ARAB STREET
JAN 18, 2011
 Posted by Abeer Al-Najjar
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“Hope” is the first lesson the Arab street is learning through the Tunisian experience. For decades, the Arab peoples have been depressed, felt helpless and had to live with the injustices, the failures and repressions of their post-colonial states. For the first time, an Arab people, Tunisians, have won against one of their regimes. The event had an echo among all Arab peoples. Many of them felt this strengthened their trust in themselves and their hope in the future. Hope and change did not have to come through the diplomacy of President Barack Obama or Nicolas Sarkozy in France, it…... Full Text
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JORDANIAN DIPLOMACY TESTED BY SOCIAL NETWORKING
DEC 15, 2010
 Posted by Abeer Al-Najjar
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Jordanian and Palestinian social network activists were busy this past weekend exchanging videos, pictures, and comments on the clashes following a local match in Amman on Friday evening. The match was between Al-Wehdat and Al-Faisali clubs. The players of the first club are made up, mainly, of Jordanians who are from a Palestinian origin, and the latter represents the originally Jordanian national team. Al-Wehdat won the match, the supporters of Al-Faisali, the losing club, left the stadium first, which is common for the supporters of the losing party and then clashes erupted between the supporters of Al-Wehdat supporters and the…... Full Text
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MEDIA REVIEW: THE ARAB PRESS ON THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS
OCT 18, 2010
 Posted by Abeer Al-Najjar
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The peace process has been major news in almost all Arab media before, during and after direct negotiations started between the Palestinians and the Israelis. In broadsheet newspapers it is front page news; in broadcast media it usually comes first or second. The mood of the commentary and analysis was quite ambivalent. For the first time in a few years readers will find a balance between the usually pessimistic crowd of journalists who can’t see any light at the end of the tunnel, and more “moderate” advocates of peace at any expense as the only possible way out of the…... Full Text
Tags: media • obama • israel • journalism • arab media • palestinians • cartoons
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PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND THE LEGITIMACY OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY
NOV 18, 2009
 Posted by Abeer Al-Najjar
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Yesterday, the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) made a public statement accepting the call of the French president Nicolas Sarkozy for a Middle East peace conference and his offer to host this conference. In his statement, Abbas emphasized that a condition for holding the conference must be a total freeze of settlement expansion in the Palestinian territories. This reflects clarity in the political rhetoric and an attempt to set the negotiations and the conflict agenda that is rare in the history of the Palestinian public diplomacy. The Palestinian Authority (PA) is considered by many writers and commentators to be…... Full Text
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KAUST AND SOCIAL NETWORKING: THE NEW FACE OF SAUDI ARABIA
NOV 2, 2009
 Posted by Abeer Al-Najjar
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Twitter has had a phenomenological influence on the international news media in the post-Iranian elections period in June 2009 onwards. Through the continuous 24 hour- cycle of tweets, the micro-blogging site was challenging the censorship applied by the Iranian government on all news media covering the confrontations following the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . After years of state monopoly and censorship twitter and other social media sites and applications are making governments more concerned over news. Social media is placing more power in the hands of citizens in this region. For that reason, I believe that regional governments from…... Full Text
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