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Dan Morain: Hear the one about Senate donor reports?
February 12, 2012

Viewpoints: In Syria, it's not just about freedom; it's also about Iran
February 03, 2012

Viewpoints: Social media can help transform California's governance system
January 27, 2012

Ruben Navarrette Jr.: Israel's diversity challenge looks familiar
January 22, 2012

Thomas L. Friedman: Egypt's Islamist leadership tests U.S. trust and diplomacy
January 19, 2012

Davis biotech firm gets EPA approval for expanded use of fungicide
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Middle East Videos

Gas prices continue to rise
February 12, 2012 | WFTX FOX 4 Cape Coral, FL

Clinton meets Israeli FM amid Iran crisis
February 07, 2012 | Agence France-Presse

Analysis of Middle East Hot Spots
February 07, 2012 | WTTG FOX 5 Washington, DC

Middle East Wikipedia Information

The Middle East is a historical and political region of Africa-Eurasia with no clear boundaries. The term "Middle East" was popularized around 1900 in Britain, and has been criticized for its loose definition. The Middle East traditionally includes countries or regions in Southwest Asia and parts of North Africa. The corresponding adjective to Middle East is...

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Analysis: The Middle East’s "invisible refugees"
January 31, 2012
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh argues Palestinians can become “internally displaced refugees”. Many became stuck at this border camp when they tried to flee violence in...

Why Is Obama’s Favorite Middle East Leader an Anti-American Islamist
January 08, 2012
Why is Obama’s Favorite Middle East Leader An Anti-American Islamist By Barry Rubin, Yid With a Lid, 1/6/12 For the [...]

Middle East: The year that was
January 04, 2012
The year 2011 saw huge changes in the Arab world. Photo: Syriana2011/Flickr DUBAI, 4 January 2012 (IRIN) - When hundreds of ...

Israeli Public Supports Middle East Nuclear Free Zone: UMD Poll
December 02, 2011
COLLEGE PARK, Md. Dec. 1, 2011 - Nearly two-thirds of Israeli Jews, 64 percent, favor establishing a nuclear free zone in the Middle East - even when it was...

Vanderbilt study links military service in Middle East with serious lung disorder
July 21, 2011
July 20, 2011 - A Vanderbilt study of U.S. soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with severe respiratory issues — likely due to prolonged...

State in need of ‘California Spring’
July 19, 2011
We need a California Spring movement. Recent political unrest in the Middle East has been called the Arab Spring. The heart of that activity echoes our own...

Other local news reports

Monogamous societies have fewer social problems than polygamous ones, UC Davis researcher...
February 10, 2012 | UC Davis News
Polygamy continues to be practiced in parts of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and North America.'' The emergence of monogamous marriage is also puzzling because multiple...

Modern dogs are more Asian fusions than Euro pups, study finds
December 19, 2011 | UC Davis News
from the Middle East ... '' The two most hotly debated theories propose that dogs originated in Southeast Asia or the Middle East,'' said study... of the Middle East and...

UC Davis experts: 10th anniversary of Guantanamo Bay
January 11, 2012 | UC Davis News
A linguistic and cultural anthropologist, Miller can speak broadly about the roles of language ideology and poetry in contemporary Muslim reform in the Middle East, as well as...

Arming Middle Eastern college students with scholarship skills
August 04, 2011 | UC Davis News
As uprisings continue in the Middle East, a UC Davis professor plans to travel... UC Davis Middle East ... for the Middle East and North Africa, Global Fund for Women. Other AFWG...

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In Friday Sermon, Ayatollah Jannati Lauds Middle East Movements As' Islamic In Nature,'...
December 24, 1999 | Memri Latest Blogs Urdupashtu
In his Friday sermon, Tehran interim Friday prayer leader Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati highlighted the Islamic nature of the revolutions in the Middle East, condemning the West's''...

Pakistani Writer Examines the Role of Pakistani Mercenaries in the Middle East and...
December 24, 1999 | Memri Latest Blogs Urdupashtu
In a recent article, Pakistani writer Dr. Mohammad Taqi examined the role of Pakistani mercenaries in the Middle East over the years. The role of Pakistani mercenaries came into...

Gate2Play launches Zynga game cards in Middle East and North Africa
December 24, 1999 | VentureBeat
Zynga plans on taking over the world with social games. But it's not so easy in places where there are not easy payment mechanisms such as credit cards. So the company is...

Khamenei: Unrest In Middle East Will Reach Heart Of Europe
December 24, 1999 | Memri Latest Blogs Urdupashtu
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said at a teachers' conference that the awakening movement of the peoples in western Asia and northern Africa is the continuation of the...

Ahmadinejad: Coming Soon Middle East Without U. S., Israel; U. S. No Different From...
December 24, 1999 | Memri Latest Blogs Urdupashtu
In a speech at the inauguration of a refinery in Abadan, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacked U.S. President Barack Obama's proposal for a solution to the...

Ahmadinejad: Drought In Iran, Middle East A Western Plot
December 24, 1999 | Memri Latest Blogs Urdupashtu
At the inauguration of a dam in Iran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the climate change in Europe and Asia in the past year is the result of European cloud...

Middle East on twitter

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	RT @NABEELRAJAB: BREAKING / POLL: #US Blocking Weapons Sales to #Bahrain Over Lack of Progress on Security Reforms \| Middle East Voices: http://t.co/bWSC1GwC Twitter: @hussain_sameaa
	RT @Moawen: #BBC : Protests on eve of #Bahrain uprising anniversary http://t.co/0shCHorc Twitter: @nwnoo
	RT @NABEELRAJAB: BREAKING / POLL: #US Blocking Weapons Sales to #Bahrain Over Lack of Progress on Security Reforms \| Middle East Voices: http://t.co/bWSC1GwC Twitter: @bintfealbahrain

YouTube Videos

The Middle East - Blood (HQ Video)
September 04, 2009

The Middle East - Blood
July 15, 2009

The Middle East - The Darkest Side
October 24, 2009

Middle East Books

The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini, $4.95

Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
Wael Ghonim, $15.81

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