Gallery – Dr Andrew Hammond

U.S.-Saudi “crisis” (again)

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy wants to tell us that “U.S.-Saudi relations are in crisis” (http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC06.php?CID=1612). We’ve heard this one many times before and quite frankly who’s buying it. The “conflict” over the U.S. administration’s rhetorical commitment to democracy and freedom to choose your […]

adminApril 16, 2011April 18, 2011

Published articles - 2011

Bahrain and Al-Jazeera’s revolution red line

It was immediately obvious during the protests in Egypt against Mubarak that something wasn’t right in the media coverage of Al-Jazeera Arabic. While the problems of Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen were being given similar-ish treatment, the democracy movement in Bahrain was […]

ahammondApril 14, 2011April 18, 2011

Published articles - older stuff

Prostitutes of the world unite in freewheeling Dubai – Express India

Prostitutes of the world unite in freewheeling Dubai – Express India. Tweet

adminJuly 10, 2005April 17, 2011

Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Pop Culture in North Africa and the Middle East (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2017).

“Arab Culture: From Orientalist Construct to Arab Uprisings,” in Arab Media & Society, Issue 23, Winter/Spring 2017.

“Making Revolution Islamic Again: Protest and Rebellion from ’79 Iran to the Arab Spring,” in Global Policy Journal, 18 January 2017.

“Rereading Jihadi Texts: Between Subalternity and Policy Discourse,” in Noha Mellor and Khalil Rinnawi, Political Islam and Global Media: The Boundaries of Religious Identity (Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2016).

The Islamic Utopia: The Illusion of Reform in Saudi Arabia (London: Pluto, 2012).

What the Arabs Think of America (London: Greenwood, 2007).