Tag Archives: Middle East politics
Reading – UN Resolution Posted by aziza on Dec 23, 2016
In this post, I present a reading comprehension exercise. The topic of the exercise is the latest UN Security Council resolution on the Middle East. Read the text and answer the questions below. You can use the vocabulary list provided to facilitate comprehension. أتلانتا، الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية (CNN)– أقر مجلس الأمن الدولي مشروع قرار يطالب…
The crisis of change Posted by aziza on Feb 5, 2011
The winds of change have been blowing in Egypt for 12 days since January the 25th, but since then the situation has been escalating, and it has dominated media all over the world. Demonstrations have continued all over the country, and supporters of the Egyptian president formed their own demonstrations and clashed with callers for…
Word search Posted by aziza on Jan 30, 2011
It is the end of the month, and I usually present the word search game at this time. As protests in Egypt continue, and young people remain in the streets of all Egyptian cities, the whole world watches with great anxiety. Today, the Egyptian government closed down Al-Jazeera offices and suspended all Al-Jazeera correspondences. Security…
Stronger winds of change Posted by aziza on Jan 29, 2011
Egypt is in a state of revolution, led by young people and old, by women and men. Everyone came out after Friday prayers to ask for a change in the political system in Egypt. Security forces failed to control the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators taking to the streets. Numbers of demonstrators reached 500,000 in…