http://www.yourstreet.com/news/middle-east YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us WILLIAMSBURG — A 22-year-old senior at the College of William and Mary who has been named a Rhodes Scholar wants to expand online communication opportunities in the Middle East. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756078/william-and-mary-senior-named-a-rhodes-scholar Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:18:08 -0800 BY HILARY LEILA KRIEGER The Jerusalem Post Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held a lengthy meeting with US President Barack Obama Monday night which addressed the Middle East peace process, Iran and Israeli security. The one-hour-and-forty-minute parley was... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6752677/unusual-media-blackout-follows-netanyahu,-obama-meeting Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:19:08 -0800 More than 46 years ago, President John F. Kennedy sought to preclude a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. In June 1963, he wrote the last in a series of insistent letters to Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. Those letters sought what Israel now demands of... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6743299/at-what-cost-the-israel-lobby- Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:19:08 -0700 THE next general election is three months away, but Iraq is already in high gear for what promises to be a hard-fought campaign over the future of the newly liberated nation. The outcome could determine the course of politics in the Middle East and ... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6746906/new-battle-for-iraq Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:44:08 -0700 Citigroup named James Bardrick and Manuel Falco as co-heads of banking for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the bank said in a memo to employees on Monday, to replace the veteran dealmaker Tom King. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6742402/citigroup-names-2-to-lead-overseas-banking Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:32:08 -0700 PARMA — It has world-wide operations and facilities, but a major company in the vegetable seed business has a growing facility out in the country, just east of Nyssa — growing in the sense that the company is enlarging its operations there and internationally in... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6743351/seed-company-has-world-impact Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:33:08 -0700 “Carter has single-handedly done more to cause the situation in the Middle East than anyone before or after” (“Carter Award Ignores Failures,” Sept. 24). http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6744280/carter-our-country-s-best-ex-president Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:00:08 -0700 President Barack Obama won that "it" I mention in the title above. Of course, "it" is the Nobel Peace Prize . Did he deserve it? Not in my view. He's new to the stage (only nine months into his presidency) and by the time all the nominations were in, he was only a... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6742883/obama-didn-t-deserve-it,-but-he-got-it-now-what-he-should-do-with-it- Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:01:08 -0700 Dinosaur Jr., live at the Middle East downstairs, October 2, 2009 Photos of Dinosaur Jr. performing on their 2009 reunion tour Photo: Nellie Sweet Dinosaur Jr., live at the Middle East Downstairs, October 2, 2009 READ: Dueling Dinosaur Jr. reviews:   Night One... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6749204/photos-dinosaur-jr-at-the-middle-east-downstairs Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:33:08 -0700 BY RORY McCARTHY and IAN BLACK The London Guardian Israel and pro-western Arab states feel that their concerns about Iran’s nuclear ambitions have been vindicated by the latest dramatic revelations about a secret, second uranium enrichment plant. News about the... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6731596/iran-s-second-nuclear-plant-a-vindication-for-israel- Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:29:08 -0700  The Walkmen, live at Middle East downstairs on September 18, 2009 It was strange to see the sparse instrumentation from which NYC’s The Walkmen drew their atmospheric, honey-dipped sound last Friday at the Middle East. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6749219/review-the-walkmen-at-middle-east Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:18:08 -0700 James Longley, documentarian, and local poet Heather McHugh, are the recipients of two of the MacArthur Foundation 2009 Fellows Program grants. Longley’s Oscar-nominated Iraq in Fragments was a cinema verité portrait of the ordinary lives of people in... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6733833/two-macarthur-genius-grants-awarded-to-seattleites Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:00:08 -0700 Trade unions in the United Kingdom are taking a stand against Israeli aggression in the Middle East, by calling for a boycott of goods that originate from the illegal settlements. Israel continues to build these settlements, generally large apartment buildings, on... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6727281/british-unions-call-for-boycott-over-israeli-aggression-against-palestine Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:12:08 -0700 President Barack Obama's decision to modify the Eastern European part of a controversial missile shield program and to recalibrate America's defense approach in the Middle East is wise in both strategic and financial terms. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6729230/defense-shift-obama-scraps-the-european-missile-shield Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:00:08 -0700 JERUSALEM -- U.S. President Barack Obama will try to get Middle East peacemaking back on track this week in a meeting with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, hoping he can resolve a showdown over Israeli settlement construction and get the sides talking again after... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6729260/obama-has-tough-task-in-renewing-mideast-talks Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:00:08 -0700 James Madison University will honor former president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Monday for their work promoting peace in the Middle East. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6728276/carters-to-be-honored-at-james-madison-university Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:13:08 -0700 It was a big day Saturday for the families of more than a dozen local service men and women stationed in the Middle East. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6729942/local-troops-welcomed-home-from-iraq-in-emotional-reception Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:44:08 -0700 By BOB COX In offices and workshops from North Texas to Maryland, engineers and technicians at L-3 Communications Corp. are working to carve out a big niche in the rapidly growing market for unmanned aircraft systems. That effort got a major boost last week when the... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6728708/unmanned-aircraft-market-takes-off,-with-l-3-flying-high Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:15:08 -0700 Image courtesy of Samer Farha Drink of the Week: Custom-made drinks The experience of sitting at a bar with a good bartender's full attention is one of my favorite past times, especially because then you have the chance to order a custom cocktail. Over the past few... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6726102/the-weekly-feed-powered-by-ethanol-edition Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:55:08 -0700 Iran and Venezuela increasingly are not two virulently anti-American threats but one. And their coupling portends great peril far beyond just the Middle East and Latin America. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6718229/venezuela-iran-counter-this-axis Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:00:08 -0700