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March 8, 2021 at 3:51 pm
Arab Foreign Ministers have reappointed 78-year-old Egyptian diplomat Ahmed Aboul Gheit as the Secretary-General of the Cairo-based organisation during its 156th meeting. Aboul Gheit was first elected to the post in March 2016, when some of the League members criticised his election due to his age at the time. On this occasion, he was re-elected unanimously and without any criticism, only expressions of hope that he will help to resolve some of the serious issues facing the Arab world.
The re-election of Aboul Gheit for a second term gives us a clear idea of what the future of the 22-member bloc will look like. A clue: it has been absent from the major issues faced by the Arab world during the five years of his first term. The League has been sleeping and knew nothing about the crises which have hit the Arab countries. Indeed, it only felt Turkey s assistance to the Syrians, Libyan, Somalis, Iraqis, and Qataris during the blockade imposed by member states
Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who modernized Oman, dies at 79
By JON GAMBRELLJanuary 11, 2020 GMT
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the Mideast’s longest-ruling monarch who seized power in a 1970 palace coup and pulled his Arabian sultanate into modernity while carefully balancing diplomatic ties between adversaries Iran and the U.S., has died. He was 79.
The British-educated, reclusive sultan reformed a nation that was home to only three schools and harsh laws banning electricity, radios, eyeglasses and even umbrellas when he took the throne.
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Under his reign, Oman became known as a welcoming tourist destination and a key Mideast interlocutor, helping the U.S. free captives in Iran and Yemen and even hosting visits by Israeli officials while pushing back on their occupation of land Palestinians want for a future state.