March 2009 Driving from Tel Aviv to Haifa, you could be forgiven for not realizing you are driving close to the old Green Line that marked the border of the mountainous West Bank with Israel until 1967 when Israel seized the occupied […]
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I read quite a few of Abdo Khal’s novels. He’s idolised by the small liberal elite. This one got him the ‘Arabic Booker’. I met him at Dubai film festival in December 2010, we were chatting with Ahmed Mansoor who was arrested […]
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 […]
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 […]