Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus-Arabia Deserta: Category Archive for Arab Politics

Servant of Two Cities: Colonel Qaddafi on Tribes and Nations and Loyalties and WTF else……..

Kuwait Elections: Pro-Saudi Islamic Extremists and Tribes in, Women and Liberals out………

(1) Arab Civil Wars: What about Syria? a Western-Saudi Mandate?..............

Political Wisdom of Qaddafi: Rambling on Political Classes and Tribes………

The Late Qaddafi and the GOP: Arab Referendums and Plebiscites, American Primaries……..

Moroccans are from Mars, the GCC from Venus? Democracy and Humor...........

On Israelis, Turks, Kurdish Rebels, Iranians, and Arab Oligarchs without Vision…………..

The Late Qaddafi on Arab Parliaments and 112th U.S. Congress………..

Shaikh of Qatar and the Liberation of Syria: about a Piss-Up in a Brewery….………..

al-Azhar Outside the Box: Imam Ahmed the Nice vs. King Not-So-Nice..........

Mickey and Minnie vs. the Fundamentalists: Just How Freer are Egyptians Now? Beast of Cairo………

Lebanon’s Unwelcome Visitors: Ki-Moon, a Phony UN Bureaucrat, a Familiar Messenger of Evil…………..

New Liberated Libya Receives Absolute Wanted Dictator of Sudan, about Bernard-Henri Lévy…....…

Royal Princess of Riyadh, Royal Apologists of Acton and the Gulf………

Democratic Qataris and Saudis and Bahrainis Blasting Autocratic al-Maliki of Iraq…………

2011: a Year of Arab Revolutions, a Year of Arab Counterrevolution………

Saudi Princes Love for Media Control Continues……..

Is it a Neocon New Neo-Colonialism in the Middle East?...............

What the Dead Leader and the Presidential Candidates and some Middle East Potentates Had in Common………

Mohammed Bouazizi, Slayer of the Arab Fear, is Publicly Honored "in London"………..

League of Arab Dictators and Absolute Monarchs in Syria, about the Somali Arabs and Racism……………

UAE: Harsh Crackdown on Academics, about those Mercenaries………….

A Salafi al-Qaeda Crescent: from the Gulf to Iraq and Syria and Lebanon (and Egypt?)……………

Ayad Allawi: back to the Princes………..

As the Last American Soldiers Leave, Iraqis are at it Again………

Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia: Coming Oil and Gas Wars and Regional Hegemony.......

History: Egypt Fatwa Adapts to the Zeitgeist, of Omar and Ali and the Two American Rices...........

Massacres of Shi'as: Illustrative Reactions of the Arab Media and Regimes………….

Hezbollah Deputy Leader Opines on “Molesting” Lebanon, about Cain and Gingrich and Paul………….

The West and the Syrian Taliban: Advise from a Saudi Prince of Thieves?…………

Saudi Game of Musical Chairs Resumes, Moving the Bins Around, Goatees and NFL…………..

Hypocrisy on my Gulf: Iraq vs. Libya vs. Syria vs. Bahrain vs.………….

The Coming Wars of Saudi Succession?.........

2006: when the War of Sectarian Hatred Went Regional.......

Smiling Arab Leaders, the Boumedienne Syndrome, the Ahmadinejad Syndrome……….

Is the Arab Spring Turning into an Islamist Winter?.........

The Marshal and the Ayatollah : What Went Wrong in Egypt………….

Mama NATO and its Arab Babies………..

Former Clinton-istas Lobbying for Gulf Regime of Apartheid ………….

WTF: Railway Link to Yemen? From Funny GCC to Asinine GCC…………

Kitchen Clergy: Senior Saudi Cleric Pissed about Promise of Women Vote…….

Emirati Activists Charged for Flipping off the Potentates and for Terrorism……..

Paul Simon in Arabia: Saudis Return Nasty Saleh, Keep Amiable Bin Ali…………

Iran and Sudan, Libya and Zimbabwe: should NATO be Worried?.............

Gangs of Arabia: Oil Fiefdoms and Turf Wars, Ivanhoe and Isaac of Qatif…………

Animal Farm: King Welcomes Some Foreign Intervention in All Arab States……….

Arab Absolute Monarchs Funding Democracy in Egypt? Democratic People's Republic of (Saudi) Arabia...……

Iraq: Muqtada al-Sadr on the Hezbollah Trail…….

Politics as a Joke: Arab Parliament, WTF Parliament, on Electing Dog-catchers……..

A Tale of Two Arab Despots, a Tale of Two Invasions, a Tale of Two NATO Elections………

Getting Ready for a Tea Party? Iranians Claim anti-Cruise Radar……..

A New GCC: Saudi Women, Moroccan Women, Black Magic, White Magic.......

The Orwellian Glory of Bahrain? Khalifa and Winston Smith and O’Brien...................

Khamenei on “Islamic” Arab Uprisings…………..

The Turks are Coming: Erdogan as a Softer Gentler Ahmadinejad?..............

Gulf Arms Race: the Best Armed Foreign Mercenaries, it is the Commission, Stupid!………

The Right Wing Arab Spring: will Libya Join the New Humorous GCC?………

OFMQ: Old Friends of Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi…………

A Vampire Saga of FH and ZN: From Transylvania to the UAE, Via Pakistan……….

Syria and Iraq and the Arabs: the New Iranian-Turkish Regional Rivalry………….

UAE: Politics, Devilish Violent Crimes, Generals and Potentates with Missiles……..

Viagra-Gate? On Elderly Leaders, Hormone Injections, an Embassy Cable……..

Syria: Between the Ba’athist Frying Pan and an Unknown Promising Fire……..

Friends of Libya, Foes of Freedom, Napoleon in Tripoli……..

Iraqi Politics: Strange Leadership, Passing the Buck Iraqiya Style………

Al Qaeda in Lebanon: Who Killed Hariri? Who Really Knows? Who Really Cares?............

Africa, the Arab World, the (New) New Colonialism………….

Abrams Pissed at Qatar, When in Rome and Carthage………

Iran's "Guest Worshiper" Solving Palestine: Muslim Clergy, Israeli Clergy, American and French Clergy…….

Arab Uprisings: the Mixed Scorecard......

The Great Arab Revolt of 2011: about T.E. Lawrence, Sykes-Picot, Tiramisu, and Apple Pie……….

The New (More) Islamic Republics of Arabia………

Sherlock Holmes vs. Poirot in Lebanon: the Hariri STL Legal and Political Non-Event………….

Al-Qaeda in Iraq: Refinancing or Issuing Islamic Paper………….

NATO and the New Arab Mandate: East Libya and West Libya and Gertrude Bell………..

On Iraqi SOFA, the Sadrists, Republican Hawks (& Hillary Clinton), and Fiscal Policy………

An Arab Spring of Yesterday’s Men , a New Jewish Spring, an American Tea Party Madness……….

Gulf GCC: Moroccan Couscous Controversy, Jordanian Humor Controversy……..

Iraqi Regionalism Rears its Head Again, about Secession…....

Joke of the Day: Tony Blair Preaches on Morality………….

An Iraqi Tragedy: Sins of Fathers, Sins of Children……..

The Dog, the Cow, the Ass, and Arab Leaders……….

Middle East Peace Index, War Index……………

Is the Saudi Women Drive-in Protest DOA?……….

Arabs Doubling Down after the Obama Speech………….

Salafi Political Chaos in a Gulf State………..

Al-Saud as Arab Policemen? Correlation between Love and Oil Prices……..

Sir Thomas More Al Shaikh, Saint Thomas Becket of Al-Azhar………..

The Joys of Media Lobotomy and Red Lines Around My Gulf…….

From Tehran to Doha to Riyadh to Abu Dhabi: Watching the World Go By, a Talent for Boring………….

WTF is Osama? Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri React to Arab Revolutions………

Powerful Princes, Comfortable Clergy, Madoff and Goldman of Arabia……….

With Martian Invasion Delayed, Saudi and UAE Leaders Hesitate to Arm Libyans……

On LSE, Colonel Qaddafi, and a Late Gulf Potentate………

After Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain: UAE Seeks Seat on UN Human Rights Council…….

New Arab League? An Egyptian Saying about Killings and Funerals and Chutzpah……

Islamic Scholars Opine on Revolution, Oppression, and the Shari’a…………

Iranian Disinformation Games: on Winning Middle East Elections……

My Fatwa on all Fatwas: Extremist Fatwas and an Evil Majority on my Gulf……..

Google Earth, a Greedy Gulf Ruling Family, and Overflowing Peace in Palestine, no Cat’s Meow……….

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