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Bahrain used to model itself as a relatively benign island in a sea of despotism. Situated between two horrifically oppressive regime - Saudi Arabia and Iran - the Bahraini monarchy has allowed for an increasing space for critical debate and commentary...
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The Qatari regime, and its voice heard through al Jazeera (owned by the royal family), has supported the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt but has stayed silent if not...
made popular Mar 4 2011
Since the 1990s, Arab-American organizations (many of them anyway) have traded trying to cultivate the support of actual Arab-Americans and have turned to impressing...
made popular Nov 30 2010
The mistreatment of maids and migrant workers in the Persian Gulf is amongst the worst you’ll find anywhere. These people are brought from south-east Asian...
made popular Apr 22 2010
The are numerous buffoons amongst Arab regimes, but high amongst the list is Bahrain’s foreign minister Khalid al-Khalifa. Bahrain is another American client in...
made popular Feb 6 2010
The Persian Gulf or the Arabian Gulf? Frankly, who cares; after all, what’s in a name? But to be fair to the Iranians (formerly known as Persians) the body of...
made popular Jan 18 2010
I have written before about the abuse of foreign maids in Lebanon. And in writing about Lebanon again, I do not mean to single out the nation. Abuse of migrant workers...
made popular Jan 15 2010
The Iranian leadership always takes tough stance on its national and international policies and never takes U turns easily. Stance on Palestinian Issue and its Nuclear...
made popular May 1 2009
It has become an American ritual: kissing the Saudi King’s rear. We all know why. Saudi Arabia has the oil and America the thirst. That is why U.S. president show...
made popular Apr 3 2009
The United Arab Emirates is officially not much more than a base for Western armies in the Middle East. The confederation of seven emirates already is home to several...
made popular Apr 1 2009
After handing out my individual douchbag of the year award to Ahmed Chalabi, I decided to hand out another. But his one is not individual, but, rather, a collective...
made popular Dec 4 2008
Journalist Mike Davis’ piece on Dubai is something I felt the need to share.
Mike Davis’ piece “Fear and Money In Dubai” exposes a part of...
made popular Oct 21 2008
A dear Palestinian friend once remarked to me in despair that Palestinians are not liked and looked down upon by Gulf Arabs. Why? Because Gulf Arabs are wealthy and...
made popular Oct 20 2008
Iran warned Monday that it could easily close a critical Persian Gulf waterway for oil shipments and claimed possession of a new long-range naval weapon that could sink...
made popular Aug 4 2008
Kourosh Ziabari
Everyone knows that it is not possible to alter the historical registered names and falsify the recognized geographical facts for the sake of states or...
made popular Jul 3 2008
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The U.S. Navy’s Ticonderoga class cruiser USS Port Royal, equiped with AEGIS combat systems, and “Tomahawk” ASM/LAM cruise missiles, patrols in the Persian Gulf in this 1997 file photo. Iranian boats harassed and provoked three American Navy ships in...
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