SAUDI ARABIA VS. ISRAEL - IT'S CYBER WARFARE! - 28/01/2012
Guess what, everybody? Arabs and Israelis have found a new way to hate each other. Since the turn of the year, a hacking war has been taking place in the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia, the GCC, and Defining Moments The US and its allies in the region strengthen ties - 28/01/2012
Caught off guard by a series of political events that have eradicated many of the familiar faces driving US foreign policy in the Middle East, America has learned to work with some of its oldest allies—Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council—in order to regain its footing and exert influence through regional partners
Bahrain govt rejects oppn charges over boy’s death - 28/01/2012
MANAMA - The Bahrain government has dismissed an allegation that police patrol ran over a Bahraini rioter leading to his death.
Mohammed Ibrahim Yacoub, 19, died on Wednesday night and Al Wefaq National Islamic Society blamed the police for his death. The society’s statement released on Thursday referred to a circulated video showing the boy being chased by police patrols. The society claimed that the boy was stuck between two cars and sustained injuries.
28/01/2012
Amnesty International has called for an investigation into what it says is the misuse of tear gas by Bahraini security forces.
The organisation says that more than a dozen deaths may have resulted from the heavy use of tear gas in residential areas.
By Hussein Agha and Robert Malley - 13/09/2011
New York Review of Books: The Arab uprising that started in Tunisia and Egypt reached its climax on February 11, the day President Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down. It was peaceful, homegrown, spontaneous, and seemingly unified. Lenin’s theory was turned on its head. The Russian leader postulated that a victorious revolution required a structured and disciplined political party, robust leadership, and a clear program. The Egyptian rebellion, like its Tunisian precursor and unlike the Iranian Revolution of 1979, possessed neither organization nor identifiable leaders nor an unambiguous agenda.
26/11/2010
British national imprisoned in Bahrain ‘neglected’ by Govt
By Dr Saeed Shehabi Muslim News 26th November, 2010
British citizen Jaffar Al Hasabi claims to being tortured by Bahraini authorities. He has been incarcerated since August
31/10/2010
Sunnis hang onto their edge in Bahrain elections
By Meris Lutz, Los Angeles Times
Story posted 2010.10.31 at 01:15 PM PDT
Reporting from Beirut-- Bahrain's opposition movement was dealt a blow Sunday when results from a second-round election held over the weekend showed that pro-government and Sunni Islamist lawmakers had retained their majority in the country's only elected legislative body.
Adnan Ahmed Ramahi - 29/05/2009
Gulf states battling to attract settlers
French President Sarkozy, the opening of the first naval base, a permanent French military presence in the Arabian Gulf, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, and it will not be the first French military bases in the Gulf, but also the only outside Africa, and the rooms will open the UAE's sovereignty permanent military base in a strategic location near the Strait of Hormuz and will include those
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21/12/2011
Gulf Cultural Club – Open Discussions
Challenges & obstacles faced by the Arab Spring countries
in their journey from dictatorship to democracy
by
John Rees*
Monday 12th Dec 2011
Chairman: The topic this evening is about challenges and obstacles faced by the Arab spring countries on their journey from dictatorship to democracy. Just as a preamble and opening comment it is interesting that the whole thing started at the tail end of 2010 culminating with the most draconian leadership of Mubarak coming to an end. However nothing appears to have changed.
08/11/2011
Open Discussions in conjunction with Gulf Cultural Club
Palestinian Statehood: Shaking the Status Quo?
with
Victor Kattan*
&
Dr Daud Abdullah**
Octobober 25th, 2011
The request by the Palestinian Authority for full membership of the UN security Council as a Palestinian State finally mean that Palestine will be recognised as legitimate and internationally recognised nation or will this virtual state just legitimise and legalise the status quo? Victor Kattan and Dr Abdullah will critically examine the bid to Palestinian Statehood and give their expert opinion on whether this would shake up the status quo that is the peace process.
18/01/2010
Open Discussions
in conjunction with
Gulf Cultural Club
invites you to a discussion entitled
Iran: internal and external challenges
Speakers: Ahmad Kamali*, Afshin Ratansi** and Mustafa G. Abbas***
Date: Wednesday, 27th January 2010
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Abrar House, 45 Crawford Place. W1H 4LP
Nearest Station: Edgware Road
18/12/2009
Gabriele vom Bruck
F o r e w o r d b y F r e d H a l l i d a y
Cover design by Eugene Kuo
Cover photograph Muhammad b. Muhammad Zabarah,
historian (right), and his son Ahmad, the late Mufti of
the Republic of Yemen, 1940s.
middle eastern studies
“This highly original book offers fresh insight into how traditional ideas of person, society, and responsibility, reworked in the cauldron of revolution and rapidly changing economic and political conditions, remain central to understanding contemporary society and identity politics.
23/06/2009
Life of the Ayatollah
AUTHOR: Baqer Moin
This is a new edition of the bestselling biography of the Iranian leader who influenced the current global Islamic revival.When the Ayatollah Khomeini burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s, radical Islam became a factor of political life that would change the world. And with the Iranian Revolution that Khomeini led in 1978/79, religion once more moved centre stage in world politics.
05/05/2009
Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has been undergoing a monumental crisis. Buffeted by powerful adverse currents, Islamic civilization today is a shadow of its former self.
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