Arab world faces uneasy new year
By Patrick Seale, Special to Gulf News
Published: December 25, 2008, 23:36

Culture ‘can bridge gap’ between US, Arab world

HE the Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kuwari addressing the seminar
By Anwar Elshamy

No democracy, but totalitarian regimes exist in Arab World: Qaddomi
Mohammed Al-Qadhi

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister, Farooq Qaddomi strongly criticized Arab regimes, describing them as totalitarian and dictatorial and said there is no democracy in the Arab countries at all.

Plan to Close Arab Culture Center Backfires
By Jung Sung-ki
Staff Reporter

Incheon local government's decision to shut down an Arab cultural center has drawn a backlash from Arabian ambassadors in South Korea, according to government sources and lawmakers here Sunday.

Arab world cannot ignore Somalia's woes
Gulf News
Published: December 06, 2008, 23:53
Twenty-four Somali would-be refugees drowned inYemeni waters a few days ago and their bodies washed ashore. They were only the latest victims of a 20-year-old melancholy, better known as the Somalia conflict.

Muhr documentaries provide window on Arab World

Memory, identity, war and love examined in 15 fascinating films at DIFF.