IMF to back statistics agency for Arab world
 The National - The IMF has confirmed it would support Arab efforts to establish a regional equivalent of the euro zone's statistics agency in hopes of providing greater transparency for attracting the investment the region needs for development.
The Council of Arab Finance Ministers formally approved the launching of ArabStat this month "as a regional statistical initiative, marking a major step forward in the development of the region's statistical systems," the IMF said. "ArabStat was proposed … to develop further statistical capacity and systems and support home-grown efforts to improve data compilation and dissemination."
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US stirring up its Middle East allies for a proxy war against Iran
 RUVR - Boris Volkhonsky - On Saturday the US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is departing on a week-long tour of five Middle East countries, during which he is expected to finalize one of the biggest arms deals with Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The visit comes against a background of explicit warnings coming from Israel that it is ready to carry out a lone military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities.
Prince Saud, Obama discuss Syria crisis
 WASHINGTON - ARAB NEWS - Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal and US President Barack Obama discussed the Syrian crisis and other regional and international issues during a meeting at the White House in Washington yesterday. They also discussed ways to strengthen further the bilateral relations between the US and the Kingdom.
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Tunisia struggles to stem flow of fighters abroad
 The National - Alice Fordham - Around them flowed the annual Martyrs' Day parades, including small children dressed in the outfits often adopted by extremist religious fighters: headbands with Islamic phrases and automatic weapons, albeit plastic ones.
"Jihad is a duty in Islam," Marwan, 15, one of the shirt sellers, said this week. "The Prophet has said, if one foot of the land of the Muslims has been touched, then the doors of jihad must be opened." By that morning, he had already sold 20 shirts at 20 dinars (Dh46) apiece.
Arab Awakening Is Threatened By ‘Political Stupor’
 Mideastposts - The Arab world is suffering from a lack of secular inspiration. There are plenty of leaders who find their political language in religion, but no secular leader or thinker is inspiring the crowds all over the Middle East as happened a generation ago.
The revolutions of the Arab Spring of 2011 happened without the equivalent of Jamal Abdul Nasser, who had set Egypt and the whole Arab world alight in the 1950s and ‘60s with his stirring new ideas of anti-colonial success and Arab socialism.
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