Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus: Category Archive for Arab Politics

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

Tribe and Allah and the State on the Gulf……….

Egypt on the Brink Again, What Reactionary Arabs Want for Texas……..

Egyptian Choices: Old Guard or the Known Unknown, about Arab Humor……..

New Arab Unknown: Elections Where no King Has Gone Before……..

GCC Media Censorship and Repression, Cairo and Beirut as Cultural Capitals…..

Pigs and Revolutionaries: Old MacDonald and Elvis in New Egypt……………..

Liberation of Jerusalem: a New Caliphate, Holy Twitter, Yerushalayim Shel Zahav………

The Saudi Regime Dodged a Bullet: Nasser’s Missed Great Chance…………

Saudi Election Debates, Wild Women Drivers, the Mufti and a Catholic Riyal…….

Power and Risks of the Political Cartoon: Humorless Iranians, Humorless Arab Despots……

King of Humanity, King of Hearts, King of the Wild Frontier, Kings of Viagra and Kong………..

New Arab Theocrats: Salafi Sex Madness in an Age of Revolution…………

Egyptian-Saudi Plot Thickens: Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves……….

Salafi of Egypt, Salafi of GCC, Mein Kampf and Goebbels in Arabic........

Obama’s Colombian Donkey Gift, Asses of the Middle East………

A Gulf GCC Dilemma: Tribes without Flags……..

Political Animal Planet: An Assembly of Jackass Penguins of Patagonia……….

Will Iraq Revise the Gulf Oil Equation?............

Lieberman and the Mufti and Nuclear Inspections.....

Emir of Qatar Meets with Iraq’s Hamza Kashgari Outside Malaysia………..

Blitz Ghazwa: Clinton to Dissuade Saudi King from Launching Iran War?................

Fundamentalists of North Africa on the Rise………….

Baghdad: A Sleepy Arab Summit in an Explosive City……………..

Imperiled Hegemony: the Baghdad Summit and Saudi Arabia’s Iraqi Dilemma……….

Defining Arab Regimes and States: Dynastic to pre-Communist Nirvana to a State of Flux.........

Iran in Yemen and Syria: Quds Force vs. Qat Force, Plot in DC with Mexicans and Islamic Heritage Revival Society…...

About that Arab Water: al-Assad Longevity, Saudi Longevity, Prince Forever……..

Year of the Baathists: Iraq and Syria, Nasser and the Kings………….

America’s Sectarian Elections, Arab Sectarian Elections………

New Libya as Old Libya? Shades of Mu’ammar Qaddafi ………..

USIP and Arab Women in Revolution: a Case for Shuffling the Cards……..

From Libya to Syria: Tribes and Sects with One Flag…………

On Qaradawi, the UAE, Syrians, and Qatari Border Tribes ……..

Arab Voters vs. the American Political Class: Deep Mutual Contempt…….

Saudi Leaders Blackmailing Egypt? Egyptians Calling them Liars? ……

Sudanese Dictatorship (and British Royals) Praise the Bin Technocrat Despots of Bahrain……………

Why Bahrain is Screwed? Shaikhs of a Feather..............

A Clear and Present Danger in Syria………….

Honey and Onion: Do Saudi Princes Trust Qataris? Do Qataris Trust Saudi Princes?.............

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………….

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