S.&P. lowered its sovereign ratings to BB+/B from BBB-/A-3 on Feb. 8; two days later the agency revised its outlook on Euro Arab Insurance Group, based in Amman, to negative from stable.
The attackers were exactly what we would expect them to be, some foreign-oriented jihadists and disaffected Euro Arab Muslims, staging within easy hailing distance of the mighty EU and NATO headquarters in a Muslim enclave.
To show the similar dynamics of what he calls 'conspiratorial racialization', Zia-Ebrahimi provides a textual comparison between The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1903) and Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis (2005).
He has praised writers like Bruce Bawer, the American author of "While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within," and Bat Ye'Or, the pseudonym for the British author of the conspiratorial "Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis".
Giselle Littman, who was expelled from Egypt in 1957 and now publishes under the pseudonym Bat Yeor, argues in her latest book, "Eurabia: the Euro-Arab Axis," that Europe has consciously allied itself with the Arab world at the expense of Jews and the trans-Atlantic alliance.
Ünver Noi is affiliated as Associate Researcher at European Institute for Research on Mediterranean and Euro-Arab Cooperation – MEDEA, in Brussels.
With the release of new album Spectre, however, they openly comment on Snowden, WikiLeaks, protest movements, the wobbling Euro and the Arab spring.
Syrian cuisine, with its excellent local produce and livestock, has tended to stick to Levantine basics -- meze like hummus and tabbouleh; sausages and kebabs -- but some of the newer entrants are developing an Arab-Euro fusion.
"If we don't act... you're going to end up with Arab arms and Euro arms being provided," said Aaron David Miller, a former senior State Department official now at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars think tank in Washington.
Others were attracted to the drumming and ways of improvising that distinguish Arab music from Euro-American musical practices.
Both those political ecosystems are now collapsing, with the euro-zone crisis, the advent of Arab people power and the war in Libya.
