The festival is presenting theater,dance,music,film, literature and art from twenty-two countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

Kilims are a kind of tapestry made across North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey and the Caucasus.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

In the East, one storm dropped lots of snow on communities from North Carolina to the New England states on the weekend before Christmas.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam once controlled a large area of the north and east.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

"We support political and economic reform in the Middle East and North Africa that can meet the legitimate aspirations of ordinary people throughout the region.

VOA: special.2011.05.21

This shows navigators the direction of north, and therefore also south, east and west.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Its borders are debated. Generally,however, they stretch from Fourteenth Street on the north side, Avenue A on the west, Houston on the south and the East River.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

The U.N.probe will look at CIA rendition flights that secretly transferred terror suspects for interrogation, mainly in North Africa and the Middle East.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

"We are going to enforce the U.N.resolution," "North Korea is a very destabilizing element in East Asia.

VOA: standard.2009.06.14

He says the launches are more likely aimed at enforcing a two-day ban on ships off its East coast North Korea issued on Monday.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

One program provides mentoring and technology training to women in the Middle East and North Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

"And,if I may put it that way, a disproportionately large part of the forthcoming budget would be allocated for growth in the North and East."

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Separately,North Korea fired three short range missiles off its east coast Monday.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

For years,the lack of reliable data on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa led regional governments to believe they had somehow managed to escape the epidemic.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

But a new United Nations report shows that numbers are on the rise: more than 400,000 people are currently living with HIV across the Middle East and North Africa region,or MENA.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

Secretary Clinton is in Morocco for a meeting of foreign ministers from the Middle East,North Africa, and the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations to discuss human rights, democracy,and economic development in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

Clinton says the State Department's science envoys program is sending some of America's brightest scientists to North Africa, the Middle East, South and South-East Asia to fulfill President Obama's mandate to foster scientific and technological cooperation.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Clinton spoke in Morocco at a democracy and development conference called the Forum for the Future, which joins foreign ministers from the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations with officials from North Africa and the Middle East.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

That is in addition to billions of dollars of aid to the Middle East and North Africa, including a $700-million Millennium Challenge Corporation grant to Morocco for fruit tree farming and small-scale fisheries as well as stronger financial services and enterprise support.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03