Articles tagged with: Information Minister
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Sunday, 28 Apr, 2013
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—It is the second time in less than a year that Asharq Al-Awsat has paid a visit to Cairo's Maspero building, headquarters of Egypt's Radio and Television Union (ERTU), to meet with Egyptian information minister Salah Abdel-Maksoud. He works out of the same ninth-floor office that had previously been the domain of his Mubarak-era predecessors, Safwat El-Sherif and Anas El-Fiqqi. However, this time, Asharq Al-Awsat had to wait before being ushered into Abdel-Maksoud's ...
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Amman, Asharq Al-Awsat—As a neighbor to both Syria, a state engulfed in a civil war, and Israel and the occupied West Bank, the kingdom of Jordan is more subject than most to the pressures and strains of regional crises and conflicts, especially the massive influx of Syrian refugees into its territory.
This is to say nothing of its own struggles with domestic instability, as Jordan's ruling Hashemite monarchy attempts to come to terms with economic problems, the events of the Arab Sprin...
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