Britain’s Foreign Minister Hague thinks the “Arab Spring”, as he just had to call it, is going to be the event of the early 21st century, “greater than either 9/11 or the global financial crisis in 2008” and he compared it to the […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Thu May 5, 2011 2:18pm IST (Reuters) – Bahraini media have played a central role in a crackdown on Shi’ite Muslims following the suppression of pro-democracy protests that threatened the Sunni monarchy’s grip on power, analysts say. […]
What is striking about Osama Bin Laden’s extrajudicial execution – let’s be precise – is how insignificant the man’s movement had become in much of the region. The threat to Arab regimes has moved on from the violent revolt of al-Qa’ida to the peaceful civil […]
Abdelbari Atwan, the editor of al-Quds al-Arabi, says the Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf was looking for investments not direct aid handouts during his Gulf tour last week. But while he was received in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar, the door was […]
In time the reasons why the Egyptian uprising took place and the reasons for its success will appear ever clearer and perhaps some elements will jump out that we cannot discern now. Civil disobedience could be traced back, ironically, to the period from […]