By Andrew Hammond – Analysis DUBAI | Wed Dec 2, 2009 4:02pm IST (Reuters) – Dubai nationals were alarmed by the fallout from the emirate’s debt standstill, but many hope the crisis may stem the torrent of foreigners into the conservative Gulf […]
By Andrew Hammond – Analysis DUBAI | Fri Nov 27, 2009 3:00pm EST (Reuters) – The “Dubai vision,” which has suffered a crushing blow from the freewheeling Gulf emirate’s sudden debt crisis, is the creation of one man who failed to apply […]
By Andrew Hammond – Analysis DUBAI | Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:29pm EST (Reuters) – Dubai’s debt troubles have exposed the fallacy of its once much-vaunted “model” of raising shining cities in the desert with foreign residents, finance and labor. They have […]
Reading Lohaidan in Riyadh: Media and the struggle for judicial power in Saudi Arabia Arab Media & Society, Issue 7, Winter 2009, http://www.arabmediasociety.com/?article=702 Along with a reported one in seven viewers across the Arab World, Saudis were glued to their television sets […]
“Liberal enclaves: A royal attempt to bypass clerical power”, in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 1979-2009: Evolution of a Pivotal State, published by The Middle East Institute in Washington DC in Oct 2009. http://www.mei.edu/Portals/0/Publications/SaudiArabiaViewpoints.pdf Liberal enclaves: A royal attempt to bypass clerical […]
Saudi Arabia’s Media Empire: keeping the masses at home Arab Media & Society, Issue 3, Fall 2007, http://www.arabmediasociety.com/?article=420 Since the 1990-1 Gulf crisis when the United States used Saudi Arabia as a launchpad for a campaign to evict occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait, Saudi […]
(Reuters) – Saudi Arabia is hoping that the United Nations will step in to help save the historic old city of Jeddah, whose unique Red Sea architecture is in danger of disappearing. The ancient city in Saudi Arabia is in line to […]
Q & A with Reuters Correspondent Andrew Hammond (translated from Arabic) 19/09/2006 By Najah al Osaymi Asharq Al Awsat interviews Reuters news agency’s Saudi correspondent and author of Pop Culture Arab World! Andrew Hammond. Tweet
DUBAI – Wealthy Gulf Arab investors have only to snap their fingers and someone in Dubai’s burgeoning community of Western-trained architects will design the impossible – or the unthinkable. The emirate is fast becoming an architect’s playground as more and more outlandish […]
Prostitutes of the world unite in freewheeling Dubai – Express India. Tweet