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News Source: The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
US President Barack Obama chose Cairo to win hearts and minds in the Middle East. The outcome of the speech was mixed; it both provoked and comforted. Obama's speech was more provocative in what it signified than in what it said...In response to the...
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News Source: Eurasianet
| 5 months ago
Many in the Muslim World have responded positively to Obamas speech, showing that there is a widespread desire there for improved relations with the United States...Their criticism, however, has focused less on what Obama said than on expressing...
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News Source: Chowk
| 5 months ago
I have come here (Cairo) to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in...
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News Source: Open Democracy
| 5 months ago
The intended audience of Barack Obama’s speech in Egypt on the United States and the Muslim world includes the people back home, says Godfrey Hodgson. President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo on 4 June 2009 lived up to its billing as an attempt to...
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News Source: New Zealand Catholic
| 5 months ago
United States President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo, Egypt, was welcomed by Vatican media as a step toward peace and a new beginning in American relations with Muslims. The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, ran a front-page story June 4 on...
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News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 5 months ago
President Barack Obama has proved time and again that he can compose and deliver a masterful speech. He also has a disarming ability to address the most difficult, divisive issues in an extraordinarily agreeable fashion. For any American president to...
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News Source: Kuwait Times
| 5 months ago
His careful words illustrate the constraints posed by Obama's political obligations as he tries to reinvigorate America's honest-broker status in the Islamic world. The president's address in Cairo was a long-promised dissertation on the painful...
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News Source: San Bernadino County Sun
| 5 months ago
The coverage from Thursday's speech in Cairo from our media has its usual array of amusing elements. The Yahoo headline stated Obama was offering an unclenched fist to the Muslim world, a poor attempt at sensationalization. The McClatchy News boasted,...
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News Source: Trinidad Express
| 5 months ago
For every one of his professed policies which appall them ("preventive detention", eg) come two of which they cannot help but approve (the decision to close Guantanamo, eg, or his measures designed to spur trade unionisation). It's wearying, this "'...
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News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 5 months ago
President Barack Obama has extended an open hand of friendship in his landmark Cairo speech to the Muslim world -- seeking to engage Muslims with a commitment of mutual respect...From his first days in office, he has emphasized the importance of...