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Middle East Focus: Tag Archive for Arab Spring

King of Apartheid Wined and Dined by Queen of England………

Algeria’s Ouyahia and Albert Camus: Arab Spring as a Plague, about the Humor……..

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

European Union: Killers of Arab Dreams?………..

"Saudi Arabia helped ruin Bahrain......."

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

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

Hillary Clinton and Democracy Hypocrisy: Yemen and Syria and Iran......

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

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

When the Saudi Mufti Al Attacked Egypt’s Revolution, a Late Egyptian Musician….

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

America Getting Ready to Liberate Syria from Itself: about Iraq and Libya and Maysaloon.......

Obama and Clinton and Hypocrisy on Democracy: Weapons of Repression to Bahrain............

Syrians and their Foreign Friends......

Disgruntled Bins of a Feather: UAE in the Footsteps of Bahrain?.............

Funny RSF Watermelon Press Freedom Report: Saudi Arabia Richer and Freer than Egypt?..............

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

Gulf GCC to Remove Observers from Bloody Syria, Send them to Gassed Bahrain…………

UAE Leader Visits Bahrain, Meets many Ethnically Clean Bin Technocrats…….

Middle East Worst Four for Freedom and Civil Liberties: Saudi Arabia, Syria, Somalia, and Sudan……….

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

Arabian Peninsula: Two Princes, Vanishing Fear, the Once Freest People on Earth………

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

Turkey and Iran and the West: Containment from the Gulf to the Mediterranean..............

Liberating Arabs: A Different Libya Teetering on a Different Brink………….

In Bahrain: Mercenaries Gassing Baristas Led by Field Marshals of Gas.......

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

Two Most Idiotic Quotes of the Year 2011 (Outside the US Congress)……….

2011: Year of an Unforgivable Sectarian Crime……….

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

Neglected Arab Uprising: the Rumble in Qatif (and Nejd)..……………..

Iran and the Arabs: Some Confusion about its Regional Image……….

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

Only in Saudi Arabia: Women Selling Lingerie is a Social Revolution? about Beach Volleyball, FWD Potentates…..……

Breathtaking Hypocrisy to Outlast the Petroleum Fields, Salafi Euphemism……

Kosher Arab Women and Protests: Court Bans Egyptian Virginity Tests (for Females)………

His Excellency Rapping in Bahrain: about Imported Pakistanis and Mirthless Jordanians……

Syrian Piece of Our Puzzle: Secular Ally of Theocratic Iran or Quasi-theocratic Ally of Theocratic Saudi Arabia?.....

Orwellian Bahrain: Human Rights Ministry, Ministry of Apartheid………….

Iranian Illusions and an Alleged American Spy………..

Funny Saudi Diplomacy: What Doesn’t Happen in Yemen Never Stays in Yemen……..

A Syrian Mini-Civil War, or is it a Civil Mini-War……

Bahrain: Prime Minister Praises Security Thugs, Baltagiyya, and Imported Mercenaries…………..

Al-Nahayan Democracy: UAE Kangaroo Court Imprisons Academics for Talking Reform………

A Danish Academic View: Arab Spring, Iranian Spring……………

Newt Gingrich in the Middle East: the Ike Strategy, the Walter Mitty Strategy…………

Arab World: Ottomans and Persians, Turks and Iranians………….

Kim Jong-Qaddafi on the Gulf…………..

Modalities: Syria, Libya, and the AIPAC Institute for Near East Policy………..

Manama: where a Parliament is a Joke, Diplomats are Suspect............

US State Dept Cruel Joke of the Week: Weapons for External Defense of Bahrain…….

Tunisian Revolution Threatened by Salafis………

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………..

Saudi Invasion, Saudi Unrest: No Yellow Star of David?………….

Unfinished Libyan Gunfight at the OK Corral.............

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

Alarabiya: Libya Denies Reopening the Tripoli Synagogue, about the Shari'a and Monarchy…………

Arab Spring Finally Reaches Eastern Arabia? Wahhabi Faux-Liberals of the Gulf...........

Sectarian Wahhabi Logic of a Saudi Mouthpiece………….

Yusuf al-Qardawi: 'Pay as You Pray' Anti-Semitic Shaikh of Islam……………

Human Rights: GCC and Egypt and Jordan and Morocco, Terra Humorless…………..

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

Al Khlifa vs. Al Khalifa: Fight Over a Small Looted Island…………..

Saudi Counterrevolution: the Hadith Loophole, the Salafi Alibi………

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

From Tehran to Riyadh: Cranking up the Censorship Machine.........

Is the Libyan Insurgency becoming the Libyan War?…………..

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

Of Libyan Islamist Factions and the American Tea Party………….

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

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

Syrian Godot? Waiting for Damascus and Aleppo, about Baghdad and Tripoli…………

German Cows Catch Arab Spring Fever, May Return Favor……….

Ayad Allawi: How the U.S. Can Help me Again? Harold Stassen of Iraq...........

The Battle of Bahrain, the Battle of Algiers…………

On Gulf Intellectuals, Tribal Liberals and Arab Uprisings, the Edifying Hashtag, Oxymoronic Humor………..

Economic Jihad or the Moral Equivalent of War? the Ayatollahs and Jimmy Carter……….

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

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