By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:14pm GMT (Reuters) – Bahrain’s king announced constitutional amendments on Sunday giving parliament more powers of scrutiny over government, but the opposition said they fell far short of demands for democracy that have […]
The Shi’ite Khalas group – set up via London after the clashes in Medina in 2009, along lines of the Bahraini opposition group of same name – responds to the Saudi government’s declaration of 23 “wanted” people over the recent unrest in the Qatif […]
Debate has raged in recent days over an article in Foreign Affairs in which Matthew Kroenig of the Council on Foreign Relations argues that the United States should not flinch from launching a military operation, and soon, to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities before Iran achieves nuclear […]
The Imam Mohammed bin Saud Islamic University organised a conference this week titled “al-Salafiyya: manhaj shar’i wa matlab watani” (Salafism: Legal Path, National Demand) where recently appointed crown prince Nayef and the state’s official spokesman and advisor on religious affairs, the Mufti […]
The rise of Islamist groups in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya as a result of the revolutionary movement in Arab countries this year has generated much angst about the fate of the arts, in Egypt in particular. The regimes in Egypt and Tunisia […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:36pm EST (Reuters) – A film about one of thousands of Koranic schools for girls in Syria has shocked some Syrians but impressed others with the implication that one of the bastions of […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:24pm EST (Reuters) – When Yasmina Adi got access to archives documenting the 1961 repression of Algerian protesters in Paris, she was shocked to uncover a trove of material relating to gaps in […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:23pm EST (Reuters) – The first cinematic output covering protests in Egypt and Tunisia this year recreates the euphoria of revolutions that many thought would never happen, but reveals signs of the conflicts […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:32am EST Dec 12 (Reuters) – Associates of Yasser Arafat offer personal recollections in a documentary screened in Dubai this week on his search for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal that descended into violence […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:58am EST (Reuters) – Bahrain has announced a commission to steer reforms after an inquiry found systematic rights abuse during a government crackdown on pro-democracy protests this year, but opposition parties said they […]