Added on 27/07/2013
Crossroads Arabia
Asharq Al-Awsat , Asia , Bahrain , Causeways , Dammam , Fahd of Saudi Arabia , King , King Fahd Causeway , Middle East , Saudi Arabia
CROSSROADS ARABIA: Traffic across the King Fahd Causeway linking Saudi Arabia to Bahrain is increasing hugely year on year. What’s to be done?
Added on 22/07/2013
Crossroads Arabia
Arab culture , Arab people , Arabic language , Asharq Al-Awsat , Asia , Elliott Colla , Entertainment/Culture , Georgetown University , Languages of Africa , Languages of Asia , Riyadh , Tariq Alhomayed
CROSSROADS ARABIA: Selling Arabic literature, in translation, to a U.S audience is particularly challenging
Added on 09/06/2013
Crossroads Arabia
Ali Ibrahim , Asharq Al-Awsat , Real-time web , Social Media , Syrian Electronic Army , Technology , Text messaging , The Associated Press GmbH , Twitter , TWITTER INC. , Websites , White House , World Wide Web
CROSSROADS ARABIA: The practice is as old as news itself but faking news has become a lot easier with new technology
Added on 10/05/2011
Sultan Al Qassemi
AED , Arab Gulf , Arabian Peninsula , Asharq Al-Awsat , Civil society , Dubai , Dubai School , Egypt , Facebook , Finance , Freedom and Justice Party , Gaza Strip , GCC , Gulf News , Hosni Mubarak , Human Rights Watch , Iran , Jordan , Kuwait , London , Media law , Middle East , Mohamed elBaradei , Muslim Brotherhood , Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt , President , Saudi Arabia , Social Media , Syria , Tahrir Square , Turkey , UAE , UAE government , United Arab Emirates , Yemen
SULTAN AL QASSEMI: UAE national observers commented in private that many names on the UAE petition calling for an elected parliament were UAE members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Added on 23/04/2011
Crossroads Arabia
Asharq Al-Awsat , Journalist , Media law , Riyadh , Shariah court
CROSSROADS ARABIA: Here’s a rarity: a Saudi imam is being disciplined for attacking journalists. The opposite is generally the rule in the Kingdom.
Added on 06/03/2011
Rob L. Wagner
Abdul Aziz Khoja , Abdulaziz Al Saud , Abdullah , Asharq Al-Awsat , Cell phones , Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice , Editor-in-Chief , Journalist , King Abdullah , King Abdullah University of Science , King Abdullah University of Science and Technology , Middle East , Ministry of Culture and Information , Saudi Arabia , Saudi government , Tariq Alhomayed , YouTube
ROB L. WAGNER: Religious conservatives’ disruptive behavior at the Riyadh Book Fair illustrates the Saudi government’s acceptance of intolerance as long as it doesn’t interfere with its push to modernize the country.
Added on 23/12/2010
Osama Al Sharif
Asharq Al-Awsat , Darfur , Europe , Hizbollah , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Jerusalem , Lebanon , Middle East , Obama , Obama administration , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Peace , President , Sudan , UN Security Council , United States , Washington , West Bank , Yemen
OSAMA AL SHARIF: 2010 has established that the region has failed to learn from its past. Failing to resolve conflicts does not mean that they simply go away.
