Full Coverage: Middle East

25.11.2005 An estimated three million girls in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East undergo genital mutilation every year, but the practice could be eliminated within a generation, says the UN Children's Fund.
* Razor's Edge - The Controversy of Female Genital Mutilation, OneWorld TV

24.11.2005 Quwait's Council of Ministers (COM) have signed a contract to establish a portal to promote transparency and involve citizens in the governance process.

22.11.2005 One man shares his life story, telling of the difficulties he faces as one of hundreds of thousands of Kurds who live informally in Syria without official citizenship or identity.

20.11.2005 The military in Iraq is scrambling to limit the damage from the stunning revelation about the men who are running Iraq today. We toppled Saddam—and in his place we've installed a hundred mini-Saddams. By Robert Dreyfuss.

19.11.2005 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 19 (OneWorld) - According to terrorism and nuclear experts, the Bush administration probably tweaked some, but not all of the intelligence that led to the invasion of Iraq.

17.11.2005 The European Court of Human Rights decision to uphold the Turkish government’s headscarf ban will deny thousands of women access to higher education and a professional life in Turkey, said leading human rights group.

17.11.2005 A political storm continues to rage over the Iraqi defence minister’s recent threat to kill people helping insurgents and destroy their properties.

16.11.2005 UAE nationals will be issued electronic passports beginning early next year, Minister of Interior Lieutenant-General Shaikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan has announced .

16.11.2005 Three people were killed and 24 injured during protests in the district of Hakkari Turkey, according to reports. Concerns have been raised over the escalating violence in the area.

16.11.2005 Palestinian officials are satisfied that, if implemented in good faith, Tuesday's agreement with Israel will "open up Gaza to the wider world" and could jumpstart Palestinian economic recovery, reports the Arabic Media Information Network.

11.11.2005 Military Families Against the War is planning protests and vigils on the day that the 100th British soldier dies in Iraq. The death toll currently stands at 98.

11.11.2005 The Dubai Naturalisation and Residency Department (DNRD) is working towards establishing IT connectivity between Dubai International Airport (DIA) and Heathrow Airport to facilitate use of e-Gate card by passengers at the two airports.

11.11.2005 Dubai’s Department of Economic Development (DED) has announced that it will automate two of its internal business processes, a suggestion scheme and the agency’s IT help desk.

10.11.2005 The residents of Abu Shagara area who are facing water shortage or disconnection in the supply should not hesitate to contact th emergency phone number of Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority (Sewa) for redressal of the problem, said Engineer Mohammed Khalifa bin Taresh, Director of the Water Department at Sewa.

10.11.2005 A workshop on eGovernment was opened by the College of Business Administration at the University of Sharjah (UoS) yesterday.

10.11.2005 Turkey has signed US$23.6 million deal for government portal.
The project will involve the construction of an e-government portal for the Turkish government, provided by Singapore-based CrimsonLogic.

09.11.2005 Afghanistan has been embroiled in a state of near-constant conflict since 1979, but the first reported suicide bombing took place just last year. Afghanistan journalist Claudio Franco reports on how tactics used against U.S. forces in Iraq appear to be spreading to Afghanistan.

09.11.2005 Forty experts in the areas of information literacy and lifelong learning from all regions of the world are presently gathering for a Colloquium at the Library of Alexandria in Egypt.

08.11.2005 The Ministry of Interior, Dubai will showcase latest technologies used in the fight against crime, drugs and any security threats, at the second edition of Security & Safety Middle East 2005 Exhibition and Conference scheduled from November 14 to 17.

07.11.2005 More than 2,000 companies from 66 countries engaged in malfeasance channeling almost $2 billion in illegal revenues to Saddam Hussein's regime, says the final report of the commission investigating the U.N.-administered oil-for-food program in Iraq. The regime took in another $11 billion through oil smuggling programs unrelated to the oil-for-food program.