Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 34

24-Aug-2009

Political Comment (24 August 2009)

President Obama has been guardedly optimistic about the peace process during a visit to Washington by Egyptian President Husni Mubarak. Massive bomb attacks in Baghdad have called into question the government's ability to provide security. In Gaza Hamas is confronting groups which consider it insufficiently Islamic. And Yemen is blaming Iran for the Shi'a insurgency in Saada province.

Mubarak In Washington

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