Layla

Saudi Salary Racism: What’s the Colour of Your Passport?

Saudi Salary Racism: What’s the Colour of Your Passport?

LAYLAH: Are Saudi employees not seen as efficient or highly trained as the western nurses are and thus not deserving as much pay?

 Mondoweiss

Iran Talks Progress: Guess Who’s Unhappy?

Iran Talks Progress: Guess Who’s Unhappy?

ANNIE ROBBINS, MONDOWEISS: The meeting between the P5+1 countries to discuss Iran’s nuclear programme has gone surprisingly well.

 Common Ground News Service

Afghani Quran Burning Sign of Larger U.S Failure

Afghani Quran Burning Sign of Larger U.S Failure

LISA SCHIRCH, KARIM MERCHANT, CGNEWS: There seem to be an ongoing litany of serious mistakes by the U.S in Afghanistan

 Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

2012: Balancing Budgets, And Your Life

2012: Balancing Budgets, And Your Life

SHELINA ZAHRA JANMOHAMED: It’s easy to spot where I can get better deals on household expenses. But the main struggle is in adjusting lifestyle

 Alexander McNabb

Return to Sharjah: My Personal Fuel Crisis

Return to Sharjah: My Personal Fuel Crisis

ALEXANDER MCNABB: The UAE’s fuel crisis suddenly became a lot more real for me as I drove the ‘murder mile’ from Dubai to Sharjah with a fuel needle in negative territory

 Juan Cole

Why What Worked in Egypt, Will Not Trip Up Iran

Why What Worked in Egypt, Will Not Trip Up Iran

KUSHA SEFAT, INFORMED COMMENT: The international conditions for revolution were ripe in Tunisia and Egypt. This is simply not the case in Iran.