More than 40 young Nepali migrant workers have died building sites in Qatar
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Taliban peace negotiations: tarting up a betrayal
If anything positive can come out of recent moves toward “peace negotiations” between the United States and the Taliban, it is to finally relieve Afghans of whatever illusions they might still keep regarding America’s commitment to preventing Afghanistan’s re-conquest by the Taliban and their Pakistani puppeteers.
Wed and in the red
Qataris are holding back on weddings for savings
Living large in the oil-rich Gulf
Several middle eastern nations have an obesity problem worse than the U.S.’s
How free is Al Jazeera?
Is the news network’s reliance on Qatari donors skewing its objectivity?
Al-Jazeera: we’ll furnish the war AND the pictures
I was impressed and humbled with the performance of the al-Jazeera news network during the recent revolution in Egypt. As CNN floundered and Fox News simply ceased to have even vestigial relevance, al-Jazeera seemed, for a moment, to be living up to its promise as a bridge between the Arab world and the West—if not transcending that promise and becoming something greater: a tribune of the Arab peoples and their neighbours; an influential, omnipresent witness of precisely the sort that the students in Tiananmen Square lacked; and, perhaps, one of the world’s essential institutions of news.
On the defensive
How the 2022 World Cup might shame leaders of the oil-rich nation into improving working conditions