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Nuclear Fatwa and Iranian Proliferation
Source: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Here is a ‘must read’ for anyone even remotely interested in the…
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Interactive Guide to the ‘Saudi Eleven’
Christopher Boucek of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Middle East Programme) has just released a very insightful interactive guide to…
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Israel fears its own Jewish terrorism
“We need to erase the idea of a Palestinian state from people’s minds and convince the world that Islam is…
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RUSI Palestinian Statehood Conference
As the Palestinians strive to establish a UN recognition of their statehood later this month, RUSI hosted an international conference…
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Shooting in Bahrain
This is a horrendously painful clip that I’ve found recently picturing a wounded protestor being shot at close range in…
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Qatar 2022 – First stadiums
This is a pretty amazing video of the first five football stadiums soon to be built for the Qatar 2022…
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The U.S.-Saudi Dilemma: Iran’s Reshaping of Persian Gulf Politics
By Reva Bhalla, STRATFOR Something extraordinary, albeit not unexpected, is happening in the Persian Gulf region. The United States, lacking…
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Qatar – Modernity’s Neopatrimonial Edition?
Gulf Cooperation Council Meeting. by Matthew Machowski The widespread ‘rentier mentality’ in the Gulf has undoubtedly led to a massive…
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Bahrain Demolishes Shia Mosques
Map of demolished / damaged Shia mosques in Bahrain. The unrest in Bahrain has caused many casualties but little international…
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‘Made in Australia’ – but on a Qatar-owned land
Illustration: Matt Golding, The Age Qatar government‘s agricultural arm – Hassad Food – has recently secured a yet another land acquisition…