Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates has become the latest Middle East state wary of Western non-governmental organizations. The UAE, despite appeals, has forced at least two leading Western think tanks to leave the emirates. They were identified as the American-based National Democratic Institute (NDI) and Germany’s Konrad Adenauer Foundation, both […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — When the government of erstwhile U.S. ally Egypt shut down seventeen Western pro-democracy groups, trashed their Cairo offices, and slapped travel bans on some of their staff, political relations between Washington and Cairo hit a new and unexpected low. Just a year after a tumultuous political uprising topped the […]
