20/05/2013 - 7:27 pm
Arab News: Philippine Labor Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz and Saudi Deputy Labor Minister Mufarrej bin Saad Al-Haqbani signed a labor agreement Sunday on the hiring of Filipino household service workers (HSWs). Al-Haqbani signed on behalf of Labor Minister Adel Fakeih.

20/05/2013
Kuwait Times: A number of MPs yesterday warned the government against what they called "rushed" appointments in the oil sector after the government reshuffled leading posts in the vital sector amid a bitter controversy over a $ 2.2 billion payment to US’ Dow Chemical. The Cabinet at the weekend suspended leading officials at state-owned Petrochemicals Industries Co, which signed the multibillion-dollar deal with Dow, and referred the whole issue to the public prosecution.

20/05/2013
The Peninsula: The UAE yesterday called for political action to stop what it called "the repressive machine" in Damascus, ahead of an international conference aimed at resolving the Syrian conflict.

20/05/2013
Arab News: The Gulf Cooperation Council yesterday condemned Iranian threats to Bahrain as un-Islamic and asked Tehran to reconsider its approach to Arabian Gulf countries.

19/05/2013
An Iranian official has warned the Manama regime against the ramifications of a recent raid by Bahraini forces on prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Issa Qassem’s house.


04/04/2013
I knew it had to be a hoax, even if the dateline didn't read April 1. BY DERRICK O'KEEFE

30/03/2013
Who’s Playing with the Imam Sadr Case and Why? Is Kuwait Trying to Scapegoat the Palestinians? by FRANKLIN LAMB

22/03/2013
It’s business as usual in the post-9/11 world. Your federal government is back to pandering to wealthy travelers from Saudi Arabia. In the eyes of our massive homeland-security apparatus, the comfort of Saudis is a higher priority than the safety of American citizens.

21/03/2013
An uprising that began as a challenge to monarchic rule has become a largely sectarian movement by majority Shia Bahrainis against the Sunni leadership. As American scholar on the Persian Gulf region Joseph Kéchichian details — presented in partnership with the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism — Sunni-Shia conflict appears to haveentrenched itself in Bahrain under the regime.


06/04/2013
Open Discussions/ Gulf Cultural Club Iraq’s decade of agony and hope with *Dr Hassan Al Sadr: Current politics of Iraq ** Hajar Alkuhtany Current politics in Iraq from a social actor’s perspective ***Reverend Dr Stephen Sizer: My thoughts of Iraq as a visitor Wednesday, 3rd April 2013

15/03/2013
Lord Ahmed and Bahraini Opposition Group in UK seminar Two years after the Saudi invasion of Bahrain: The failed unholy bloody mission On 14th March 2011 Saudi Arabia sent its troops across the causeway to crush the Revolution that had started one month earlier. It was a gruesome sight to see armoured columns with Saudi soldiers raising the V sign. The message was that of occupation, subjugation and arrogance was clear: No political change in GCC countries. Two years later, the mission of those troops has become a curse to those who had sent them. Instead of ending Bahrain’s Revolution, Saudi Arabia has become the cradle of new Revolution



After the Arab Spring: How Islamists Hijacked the Middle East Revolts [Book] by John R. Bradley in Books - 20/03/2012

Book of Imam Ali (AS) Released in Turkey - 21/02/2012
According to the information center of Imam Ali Specialized Library, the book is the second volume of a series published by Revak in Turkey on the Prophet's House.

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.