By NBC News’ Moufaq Khatib
AMMAN – As the Obama administration’s Middle East envoy George Mitchell prepares to meet with Jordan’s leader, King Abdullah II, he can expect to hear some strong words about the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
That’s because Jordan, a small country that borders Israel and the West Bank, is directly affected by the [...]
By Ian Williams, NBC News correspondent
MUMBAI, India – Dr. Harish Ahire led us through a maze of crowded, narrow alleyways, navigating around excited groups of barefoot children and women washing pots in buckets of precious water, just inches away from open sewers.
“When it rains, the sewage runs into their homes,” he told me.
A [...]
By Charlene Gubash, NBC News Producer CAIRO – President Barack Obama’s first week in office has been filled with words and deeds calculated to restore America’s image in the Arab and Muslim world, gestures that some of this region’s leading media figures believe are already changing the way people think about the United States.
“You [...]
By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
“There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.”
- Mao Zedong, The Socialist Upsurge in China’s Countryside, Volume 1 (1955)YUEQI, Chongqing – Driving around the farming villages surrounding Chongqing municipality during China’s Lunar New Year holiday this weekend, we noticed plenty of evidence to support Mao’s thesis. The most [...]
Iraq is holding provincial elections on Saturday. The elections are expected to set the political landscape for the next several years and its expected to include the election of more women.
VIDEO: Women run for office in Iraq
Learn more about Iraq’s upcoming elections from NBC’s Richard Engel: Q &A on Iraqi provincial elections …(read more)
