By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Sun May 29, 2011 1:54pm EDT (Reuters) – The leader of Bahrain’s main Shi’ite opposition party said on Sunday his goal was to help bring political reform, rejecting accusations of taking orders from Iran or seeking to […]
I met AbdulLatif Al Mahmoud, the one-time opposition figure who emerged with the National Unity Rally after the protest movement was underway in Bahrain. The Rally was suddenly the government’s answer to the protest movement and the mass opposition movement Wefaq, which […]
The Big Speech was rather a non-event from the perspective of most people in the region, I reckon. Obama and his administration were behind the curve when the uprisings broke out. The uprisings were troubling for them because 1. (like the Iranian Revolution in 1979) […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Fri May 20, 2011 2:59am IST (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech on uprisings sweeping the Arab world show Washington is struggling to guide democratic movements that took it by surprise, Arab analysts said, threatening U.S. […]
Obama speech analysis: at attempt to set US policy guidelines for allied governments, protesters and opposition http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/19/us-obama-arabs-idUSTRE74I7IB20110519 Tweet
This piece in the New Left Review tries to make sense of the Arab uprisings but falls into the trap of believing that there is no “anti-imperial” element to the movements. Perry Anderson writes: Notable has been one further absence in the upheaval. […]
Bahraini media stoke sectarian sentiment http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/05/05/idINIndia-56790720110505?feedType=RSS&feedName=everything&virtualBrandChannel=11709 Tweet
Not much glam around here. Except maybe this (though I think she’s losing her touch) Tweet
ANALYSIS-Bahrain media play role in tension after protests – AlertNet. Tweet
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 […]