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Middle East Focus: Category Archive for GCC

In the GCC: Asinus Asinum Fricat……

Tragedy in Qatar: the Demographics of Death, Demographics of Culture………

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

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

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

Bahrain: “Women's Rights during the Glorious Era of HM King Hamad….”

What Bahrain Wants from Iran and Saudi Arabia........

The GCC as a NATO of the Persian Gulf?.........

Egypt's National Dangers: Entertainment and Shi’ism, Misyar and Mut'ah, Video DWTS……

Failed Riyadh Summit: Was there Really a Plan for Gulf GCC Union? And Where is It?.................

Dhahi Khalfan on Leash: from the Gulf to Bismarck to North Dakota………

Al-Saud Princes Prefer Uday Saddam Hussein al-Khalifa as Governor?........

The Next Bahrain: U.S. Fifth Fleet as another Occupation Force?……….

WTF UAE: Shaikhs Bin Technocrat and Manchester City Club, from King to Wali……..

GCC Summit: a Salafi Tribal Dream Team, Taqiyya and a Real Existential Threat......

Qumquat of Qatar is Homeless in Manhattan: Too Many Al-Thanis, Sources of Money, Reichsführer Himmler of Bahrain………

Not Again! New Iranian Plot in Yemen, Plot against Lobbyists and their Johns.........

Chief Terrorist Bin Technocrat of Bahrain…………..

Views of Occupied Bahrain: Ile du Diable, Sycophant Island, Mercenary Island………

An Asian Arab Spring on the Persian Gulf: Housemaids of Asia, Unite? …………..

History: Mujahideen Khalq, Safavi Azerbaijan, Safawi Baathists, Wahhabis, and Emirates………..

Street Smarts in Bahrain: KhalifaBinSalman Strasse, Avenida HamadBinIssaAlkhalifa, Statue of the Unknown Mercenary………..

Select GCC Youth Conference Looks up to Cool Ancient Saudi Princes, Pushes Wahhabi Hegemony…………

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

Weird Salafi Laws: a Final Intercourse……..

No Fear and No Shame on the Persian Gulf: Bahrain Joins Waldo in South Africa………….

Sweet Blasphemy Laws: Dershowitz and Islamic Founding Fathers, Modern Neanderthals........

Sameera Rajab: Bahrain Appoints Saddam Supporter Anti-Zionist as Minister of Information…………

Dhahi Khalfan of the UAE: a Big Mouth or a Pop-Strategist or a Gulf Nutcase?………

An Existential Threat? Seeds of a Saudi Revolution?………….

True Arab Opinion of Tony Blair Expressed by a Gulf Man ………

Political Donkeys of Kurdistan, Jackasses of the Gulf, Harry Belafonte…………..

Gulf Party Poopers: UAE Rulers Seek to Stifle Internet, MullahNet and ShaikhNet………..

Love and Marriage in the Gulf GCC: Polygamy and Twitter………..

Yates of the Yard and Bahrain and F1 Security and a Gang that Couldn’t Rule Straight………..

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

Drill Baby Drill: OPEC Quotas, Iranian-Saudi Oil Rivalry, and the Obama Blockade……..

UAE Arbitrary Expulsions of Lebanese Families, Beating Joe McCarthy in the GCC.……..

Kangaroo Trial: Secret Saudi Court Sentences Human Rights Activist to Prison………

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

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

A Gloomy Police Kingdom without Magic………

Emperor of Bahrain: World Torture Standards, Tools of Western Democracy, Tea in Japan…….

Who Would Have Thunk it in 1968? Middle East Spies and Football at US Colleges……….

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

Gulf GCC Anatomical Astronomy: Monkeys, Traitors, Big Bananas, Watermelon Politics……….

Syrian Future: Two Self-Serving Axes of Good and Evil and Baboons…………..

An Arab Winter (of Sorts), an Arab Spring (of Sorts)……

Iraq and the GCC: a Poke in the Eye, a Deuce that is not Wild……………

Salafi La Leche League: Dueling Gulf Fatwas on Kosher Foreplay and Suckling and Milk………………

Euro-Babble about Stagnant Revolutionary Arabs and Dynamic Repressive Arabs……….

A Small Gulf GCC Oligarchy Buys Big Washington Influence…..

On the Gulf: Friends of America, Friends of Syria, Friends of Mercenaries, Friends of Child Torture and Sex Abuse………

The Gulf 2012: of Arab Revolutions and Schizophrenia…….

Friends of Syria, Friends of Democracy: United States and GCC to Support Syria and Bahrain.........

Baghdad's Syrian Summit: an Absurd Qatari Message, Poised Saudi Tanks but no Huthis…………..

Gulf Hypocrisy: on the Arab Identity of Iraq and the GCC……………

Dhahi Khalfan in Kuwait: Warns Gulf GCC of a Muslim Brotherhood Plot....

Kazakhstan’s Real National Anthem, Hava Nagila and Hatikvah on the Gulf.............

Tars Tarkas of Arabia: From Revolutionary Spring to Reactionary Sectarianism ……….

Sandhurst for Dummies: A Weird Field Marshal of Bahrain…………

Siege of Bahrain, Siege of Qatif: a Systematic Solution or a PR Stunt?.......

A Gulf GCC Mouth and Dental Health Confederation …………..

Hateful Scientific Grand Mufti and Salafis Call for Destruction of All Gulf Churches……….

New International Band: “Barack Obama and the Drones”………….

Nuclear Persian Gulf: Abu Dhabi Mon amour, Bushehr Mon Amour, Fukushima Mon Amour ………..

Shameless Shaikh of Bahrain: "Non Je ne Regrette Rien"………

Should Pakistan Join the Gulf GCC? a Deal Breaker.......................

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

Sigheh (Mut’ah) and Misyar: Iran’s Hookup Marriage, Gulf’s Hookup Marriage………..

Tunisian Islamists, Gulf Islamists: Welcome to their Concubines?............

GCC to AGUC: Camel Gives Birth to a Mouse, Arabizing the Leaders……….

Watermelon Country: Kings and Princes and Stolen Lands on the Gulf………

Libya and the GCC: a Garbled Speech, a King's Urge to Merge……….

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

Gulf GCC Gemütlichkeit: Expanded Membership and Wahhabi Rah Rah Rah……..

A Rhetorical Arab Question: Where is the Oil Money………..

Swimming Shaikh Hashim bin Technocrat Hails Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad bin Technocrat….

Watermelon in Bahrain: Shaikh Nasser bin Technocrat Praises Shaikh Khalid bin Technocrat………

Nobel Princes of Liberation: Crazy in Yemen, Suffering Women in Egypt and Bahrain, Fatuous on the Gulf…….

The First Arab Revolution Dies: Frenching Saudi Princes in Tunisia………….

Another Saudi Killing Fatwa: on Assad and Hezbollah and Israelis and Jews…….

Extreme Poverty in a Democratic People’s Kingdom of Arabia…………..

Pakistan Army Demolishes the Alamo of al-Qaeda, Gulf Jakhoor Outside the Soor………

Electoral Democratic Joke: Yemen's 99.8% Landslide, a F--king Big Deal..................

A Bahrain Think Tank and the Joys of Tribal Wahhabi Liberalism…………

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

Yemen’s Funny Old-Style Non Election, a Nobel for Qat……..

Trafficking in Bahrain: Forcing Foreign Laborers to Demonstrate for Regime…….

Have the Princes Unleashed Al Qaeda on Syria? A Saudi Fifth Column on the Gulf……….

What Happens if You Get Arrested in Bahrain………

New Plot Exposed: Iranian Ayatollahs Poised to Take Over Egypt, Again……..

Bahrain: a Captive Island of Tears and Teargas, a Den of Thieves……….

A Blood Red Valentine’s Day Coming to Bahrain…………….

GCC Claptrap: Two Bin Technocrat Kings Meet in Brotherly Atmosphere of Sisters, about Motherly and Fatherly…….

Annexation of Bahrain? al-Saud’s Fourteenth Province, Saddam’s Nineteenth Province……

Ayatollah Khamenei and the Poets: no Khayyam or Qabbani or Neruda…….

IRI, NDI, and Selective Democracy in Targeted Places: Tegucigalpa to Cairo and Manama……….

On Arab Uprisings and Crazy Illusory Iranian Ideas, Salafi Money vs. Salafi Opium………

Casablanca in Abu Dhabi: Kiss of Death in UAE, of Potentates and Cheeks………

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