Tag Archives: Saudi Arabia

Egyptian Aak 2015 – Week 14 ( Mar 30 – April 5)

Posted on April 5, 2015 by nervana111

Al-Sisi says securing Yemen’s key strait a top priority, via Egypt Independent  Main Headlines  Monday PM: Egypt to inaugurate ‘new Suez Canal’ next August Policemen has been injured while defusing a bomb in Alexandria Egypt spends 30 % less on … Continue reading →

Posted in Diary of Aak, Egypt | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Egyptian Aak 2015 – Week 13 ( March 23-28)

Posted on March 30, 2015 by nervana111

  ( Egypt’s El-Sisi receives Qatari Emir ahead of Arab summit via Ahram) Main Headlines  Monday Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan sign an initial agreement on sharing water from the Nile River El-Sisi arrives to Addis Ababa to address the Ethiopian … Continue reading →

Posted in Diary of Aak, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

Any Vietnam in Yemen will not be Egypt’s Vietnam

Posted on March 27, 2015 by nervana111

( Yemen ‘s sixties civil war- gettyimages) After Saudi Arabia and its regional allies started their air strikes against the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, it did not take long for Egypt to announce its military support for the Saudi … Continue reading →

Posted in Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Egyptian Aak 2015 – Week 9 ( Feb 23 – Mar 1)

Posted on March 2, 2015 by nervana111

(Members of the special forces police stand guard in front of the Supreme Constitutional Court in Cairo, March 1, 2015- via Reuters) Main Headlines  Monday ‪ Egypt shuts its Embassy in Yemen over bad security Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah sentenced … Continue reading →

Posted in Diary of Aak, Egypt | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Egyptian Aak 2015 – Week 4 ( Jan 19 – 25)

Posted on January 26, 2015 by nervana111

(Photo of  activist Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh  shot  in Cairo on Saturday) (Via Youm 7 newspaper) Main Headlines  Monday El-Sisi in Riyadh over the King’s health El-Sisi opens energy summit in Abu-Dhabi Emir of Qatar will attend Egypt’s economic summit Egyptian jihadists … Continue reading →

Posted in Diary of Aak, Egypt | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Qatar and the GCC rift

Posted on March 11, 2014 by nervana111

Here are three interesting pieces about the recent crisis in the Gulf, which I like to share with you.  First: Bilal Saab, Foreign Affairs  “The dispute between GCC members had been simmering for a while, and it was only a … Continue reading →

Posted in Middle East, Politics, Qatar, Saudi Arabia | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment