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Amira Al Hussaini

Regional Editor for the Middle East and North Africa

About Amira Al Hussaini

4180 posts · joined 2006-03-4

Managing editor of a Bahrain monthly current affairs magazine. Former news editor of an English language daily in Bahrain. Journalist. Columnist. Blogger. Educated and raised in Bahrain. Interests include writing, the arts and human rights.

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February 10th, 2010

Middle East & North Africa

On Facebook, around 1,300 members to date have joined a group calling for the suspension of US sanctions on Syrian Air saying: “there is no reason to apply any type of sanctions against [a] civil carrier.”

January 25th, 2010

Lebanon: 90 Presumed Dead After Ethiopian Airlines Jet Plunges into Sea

Amira Al Hussaini · 21:07, January 25th, 2010 · Middle East & North Africa
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Condolences poured in on Twitter after an Ethiopian Airlines jet plunged into the Mediterranean minutes after its take off from Beirut, Lebanon. All 90 people on board are presumed dead after the plane caught fire during a lightning storm and crashed into the sea. 3 comments  · read »

January 12th, 2010

Middle East & North Africa

Zeinobia at Egyptian Chronicles discusses her country's national debt in this post.

Middle East & North Africa

Jordanian blogger Ali Dahmash dedicates this post to Gaza and asks: “But what did Israel achieve after a year of the war?”

Middle East & North Africa

Iraq Pundit remarks: “Just because Iraqis are scared, it doesn't mean the Baathists aren't out to get us.”

Middle East & North Africa

At Mideast Youth, Iraqi blogger Wamith Al-Kassab offers an Iraqi prayer: “So maybe one day someone up there in the heaven above decides that the Iraqi people need a break from corruption, sectarian violence and ignorance and could use some human rights, freedom and peace.”

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