Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:00 GMT By Andrew Hammond MANAMA, Sept 28 (Reuters) – In the rubbish-strewn streets of Sanabis, the police are on the prowl for the culprits. A group of Shi’ite teenagers and women, some of them mothers, some of […]
In the rubbish-strewn streets of Sanabis, the police are on the prowl for the culprits. A group of Shi’ite teenagers and women, some of them mothers, some of them single, scuttle into a nearby house, putting out the lights as men get […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Sun Sep 25, 2011 5:10pm BST (Reuters) – Fewer than one in five voters cast ballots in Bahraini by-elections this weekend, a government website showed, after the Shi’ite majority in the Gulf Arab state boycotted the polls […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Sat Sep 24, 2011 4:44pm EDT (Reuters) – Bahrain’s main opposition boycotted elections on Saturday held to fill parliamentary seats vacated by its members during a crackdown on a mostly Muslim Shi’ite protest movement in the Sunni-ruled […]
The joke goes that when a security officer once explained to a visiting writer over dinner that Egypt was in reality a police state, a general nearly choked on his drink before correcting him, “good God man, it’s a military dictatorship!” Well, allegedly the Egyptian […]
By Andrew Hammond CAIRO | Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:58am IST (Reuters) – An attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo last week could set back political gains since Hosni Mubarak was toppled in a popular uprising this year, as the ruling […]
Everyone and their mother is lining up to condemn the protest at the Israeli embassy on Friday night. April 6 is disowning it, suggesting Habib al-Adly and Mubarak thugs and agents provocateurs are behind it. Al-Jazeera’s correspondent Abdulfattah Fayed talked at length […]
By Andrew Hammond and Isabel Coles DUBAI | Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:00pm EDT (Reuters) – Burned, wounded and forced into medical exile in Riyadh, Ali Abdullah Saleh had seemed down and out, but a bravura speech by the Yemeni leader suggests […]
Mark Twain once wrote that rumours of his death had been an exaggeration. It’s become fashionable to herald the imminent death of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, but I wonder if we’re not jumping the gun. Media reporting about a situation like the Syrian protest movement […]
DUBAI (Reuters) – Arabs reacted strongly on Monday to the deaths of dozens of Syrians in Hama at the hands of the Syrian army but most Arab governments kept silent, apparently fearing the power of protest movements that have spread throughout the […]