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Arab League

The Arab League is a regional organization of countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Fireworks over Barcelona

Mediterranean Union Chooses Barcelona as Headquarters

The Spanish port city of Barcelona will become the headquarters for the Mediterranean Union, it was announced on Tuesday.
November 4, 2008

Arab League Chief in Khartoum

Arab League Chief Amr Moussa is in Khartoum on Sunday to discuss with Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir an Arab plan to deal with the International Criminal Court prosecutor’s decision charge Al Bashir with genocide.
July 20, 2008

Arab League Urges Serious Discussion on Middle East Peace

As EU and US leaders meet this week in Slovenia, Arab League chief Amr Mussa urged them to talk seriously about peace in the Middle East.
June 10, 2008
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks at a ceremony in Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz

Middle East Mediation

Six key world powers have agreed on a new carrot to offer Tehran over its nuclear program.
May 2, 2008

Trouble in Gaza

DW's Peter Philipp says that stationing international troops in Gaza would be a useless exercise.
June 15, 2007
Fuad Saniora and Angela Merkel shaking hands

Mideast Tour

Chancellor Merkel is on her way back to Germany after a three-day visit to the Middle East
April 2, 2007

EU Backs Riyadh Consensus

EU foreign ministers have agreed to fully support an Arab-led Middle East peace initiative.
March 31, 2007

Int. Arab League

Arab leaders today kick off a two-day summit in Saudi Arabia aiming to revive a dormant plan for peace with Israel.
March 28, 2007

Frankfurt Book Fair Opens

Gerhard Schröder and Amre Mussa, the secretary general of the Arab League, opened the Frankfurt Book Fair on Tuesday. Chancellor Schröder welcomed his Arab guests and stressed the importance creating a cultural dialogue.
October 6, 2004

Building Bridges With Books

Building a bridge between the Middle East and the west is no small task, but its something the organizers of this year's book fair in Frankfurt hope to accomplish. Can literature and commerce do the job?
June 28, 2004

Yasser Arafat: Man Under Fire

Surrounded by Israeli tanks, Arafat refuses to give up the fight for an independent Palestine. It takes more than violence for the PLO leader to accept defeat. Peace, however, is something he’s less accustomed to.
March 30, 2002

Arab World Stands United

The Arab League summit in Beirut unanimously endorsed a Saudi-inspired plan for Middle East peace on Thursday, offering Israel normal ties and full peace in exchange for complete withdrawal from occupied Arab land.
March 28, 2002

Off To A Bad Start

The summit of Arab League leaders has opened in Beirut with a row. The Palestinian delegation walked out in protest at Lebanon's failure to air Yasser Arafat's summit speech.
March 27, 2002

No Truce, No Summit

Yasser Arafat's attendance at this week's Arab summit hangs in the balance as no Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire could be agreed before the meeting.
March 26, 2002