Added on 09/07/2011
David Roberts
Abu Dhabi , Bahrain , Crown Prince , Democracy , Emir , Foreign Affairs , Gulf News , Iran , Kuwait , Kuwait’s Parliament , Minister of the Interior , MP , Prime Minister , Reuters , Sabah Al Sabah , Saudi Arabia , Shiaa , Spy , Tehran
DAVID ROBERTS: Kuwait’s Parliament is undergoing another crisis. What are the key issues which so frequently flare-up and cause such anguish?
Added on 07/05/2011
Jonathan Cook
Bar Ilan University , Ben Gurion University , Benjamin Netanyahu , Cairo , Egypt , Egyptian government , Facebook , Fatah , foreign ministry official , Gaza , Hamas , Hosni Mubarak , Iran , Israel , Israel Radio , Israeli embassy , Jerusalem , Mahmoud Abbas , Menachem Klein , Middle East , Natural gas , Palestine , Palestinian Authority , Pew Research Centre , politics professor , President , Prime Minister , Reuters , Social Media , special adviser , Syria , Tehran , The Jerusalem Post , The National , The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , United Arab Emirates , United Nations , United States , unnamed official , Washington , West Bank
JONATHAN COOK: The political sands are shifting a little too quickly in the Middle East for Israel and the United States. Will they be able to keep up?
Added on 28/04/2011
Ramzy Baroud
America , American Enterprise Institute , Baghdad , Benghazi , CNN , Hillary Clinton , Iraq , Joe Biden , John McCain , Libya , Mike Mullen , Moammar Ghaddafi , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Obama , Obama administration , President , Reuters , Saddam Hussein , Secretary of State , Syria , Transitional National Council , United States , Washington , Washington Post
RAMZY BAROUD: There is a lot of discussion and political calculation bouncing around the corridors of power in Washington about Libya.
Added on 14/04/2011
Jonathan Cook
Amos Oz , Association of Civil Rights in Israel , Columbia University , Gaza , Human rights , Ian McEwan , Israel , Israeli government , Jerusalem , Jimmy Carter , Kofi Annan , Middle East , Novelist , Oslo , Palestine , Prime Minister , Rabin , Reuters , Simon Sebag Montefiore , Supreme Court , The National , Tony Blair , United Arab Emirates , United States , West Bank , White House , Yasser Arafat
JONATHAN COOK: “There is clearly a policy to push Palestinians out of Jerusalem to reduce what is called here the Palestinian demographic threat…”
Added on 12/04/2011
Matt J. Duffy
Abu Dhabi , Al Ittihad , Arabic media , Bahrain , Censorship , CNN , Dubai , Dubai Crime , Dubai Laws , Dubai police , Egypt , Facebook , Gulf News , Local media , Media outlets , News media , Nichola Jones , Qatar , Qatar Peninsula , Reuters , Saudi , Social Media , The National , Twitter , UAE , United Arab Emirates , Yahoo!
MATT J. DUFFY: The question all UAE, and indeed regional, newsrooms ask is what is the responsible approach. A responsibility to reporting the facts, or to safeguard their future.
Added on 29/03/2011
Syria News Wire
Amman , Army , Associated Press , Bashar al-Assad , Citizen Journalism , government spokesperson , Hilary Clinton , Hizbollah , Middle East , President , Reuters , Syria , YouTube
SYRIA NEWS WIRE: With well-respected wire journalists expelled by the authorities in Damascus the only on-the-ground reports that are emerging are via mobile phones and YouTube. There’s much room for speculation and rumour.
Added on 27/03/2011
Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
Bahrain , Democracy , Egypt , Japan , Libya , Middle East , New Orleans , New Year's Day , policeman , Reuters , Syria , Tunisia , Twitter , Yemen
SHELINA ZAHRA JANMOHAMMED: Dictators are particularly sensitive to the corrosive effects of humour. They’ve always taken it very seriously indeed…
Added on 28/02/2011
Crossroads Arabia
Abdullah , Bahrain , Egypt , Employment , Oil exporter , Oman , Reuters , Saudi Arabia , Saudi government , Tunisia , Unemployment
CROSSROADS ARABIA: More than 90,000 government employees in the Kingdom will have their job status converted from ‘temporary’ to ‘permanent’. Good news for them but is it enough?
Added on 14/02/2011
Juan Cole
Al Qaeda , Algeria , Algiers , Bahrain , Democracy , Egypt , Egypt Protests , Iran , Manama , Oil , Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries , Palestine Authority , President , Prime Minister , Reuters , Salam Fayyad , Tunisia , United States , Washington , West Bank , Yemen , Yemeni military
JUAN COLE – Events are moving quickly around the Arab World following the departure of Hosni Mubarak. I highlight, what I believe, are the most significant developments.
Added on 30/01/2011
Naseem Tarawnah
Condoleezza Rice , Department of State , Ehud Olmert , Israel , Jordan , Lebanon , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Peace , Prime Minister , Reuters , Secretary of State , Syria , Tzipi Livni , United States
NASEEM TARAWNAH: The Palestine Papers may not reveal earth-shattering facts, they have, though, given us insights into the main characters.
Added on 17/01/2011
Juan Cole
Ben Ali , Cablegate , Civil society , Facebook , First Lady , Governor , Journalist , Leila Ben Ali , North Africa , President , Reuters , Tunisia , Twitter , United States , United States government , Washington , Wikileaks , YouTube
JUAN COLE: Cables show that the U.S. was fully aware of the debilitating level of corruption in Tunisia, and its anti-democratic implications.
Added on 05/01/2011
Osama Al Sharif
Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , Alexandria , Baghdad , Condoleezza Rice , Coptic Church , Copts , Egypt , Egyptian government , Iran , Iraq , Islam , Israel , Lebanon , Middle East , New Year's Day , Pakistan , policeman , Reuters , Secretary of State , Somalia , Sudan , Terrorism , UN Court , United States , Washington , Yemen
OSAMA AL SHARIF: Christians are not the only victims of sectarian terror: Mosques, shrines, religious parades have been targeted indiscriminately, affecting Sunnis, Shias and other sects…
Added on 27/12/2010
The Moor Next Door
Africa , Al Qaeda , al-Abidine Ben Ali , Christopher Hitchens , Lina Ben M’henni , Media coverage , Mediterranean , Mohamed Bouazizi , North Africa , President , Protests , Reuters , Sidi Bouzid , Tunisia , Twitter , Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali
THE MOOR NEXT DOOR: Following the suicide of a young, unemployed man in Sidi Bouzid, demonstrations have broken out all over Tunisia.
