Posted on Wed, September 16, 2015 at 23:44 pm CEST
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The Arab States and the Refugees

The refugee crisis has exposed the abject failure of the EU, the UN, the OIC or anybody else to criticize the bloated Arab nations of the Gulf… Read more

Topics: Arab World • Bahrain • Europe • Human Rights • Kuwait • Multiculturalism • Oman • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • United Arab Emirates 
Posted on Sat, October 5, 2013 at 13:26 pm CEST
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Yousef Bin Al-Alawi Bin Abdulla, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman, Addresses General Assembly, 68th session, 2013

Yousef Bin Al-Alawi Bin Abdulla, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman, addresses the general debate of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Oman • United Nations 
Posted on Mon, April 9, 2012 at 20:52 pm CEST
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The Muslim Brotherhood in the United Arab Emirates

Qatar became a Muslim Brotherhood stronghold in 1954, when a group of its activists found refuge there… Continue reading

Topics: Bahrain • Global Islam • Islamism • Jihadism • Kuwait • Muslim Brotherhood • Oman • Religion • United Arab Emirates 
Posted on Tue, September 27, 2011 at 13:42 pm CEST
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FM Yousef Bin Al-Alawi Bin Abdulla Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

We believe that an establishment of Palestinian State on the borders of June 4, 1967 and the recognition of this State… Continue reading

Topics: Oman • United Nations 
Posted on Tue, April 19, 2011 at 17:49 pm CEST
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Saudis give up on US, instigate direct Gulf action against Iran

After giving up on US and Israel ever confronting Iran, Saudi Arabia has gone out on a limb against the Obama administration… Continue reading

Topics: Bahrain • GCC • Iran • Kuwait • Oman • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • U.S. Middle East Policy • United Arab Emirates 
Posted on Tue, April 12, 2011 at 19:01 pm CEST
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Saudi Arabia, Gulf States: Iran Is Attacking Us; Obama Administration: Excuses, Excuses!

How sadly ironic. A few years ago, the two previous U.S. presidents were trying to get Gulf Arab states to do more to foster an… Continue reading

Topics: Bahrain • Iran • Kuwait • Oman • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • U.S. Middle East Policy • United Arab Emirates 
Posted on Thu, December 30, 2010 at 22:37 pm CET
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WikiLeaks: Ahmadinejad Ordered Capture of British Servicemen ‘For Domestic Reasons’

In conversations with foreign ministry officials in Brunei, US diplomats hear what their counterparts believe was behind the capture of 15 British servicemen and women by Iran earlier in the month. The Brunei officials say they think… Continue reading

Topics: Bahrain • Britain • Iran • Iraq • Oman • The Vatican • United States of America • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Wed, August 25, 2010 at 00:02 am CEST
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The Real Middle Eastern Cold War

This new Cold War represents the current ideological division in the Middle East between the “revolutionary bloc,” led chiefly by Iran, Syria, and more recently Turkey, and the “status-quo bloc,” led by Saudi Arabia and Egypt… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Global Islam • Hamas • Hezbollah • Iran • Iraq • Kuwait • Libya • Oman • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • Shi'ism • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • The Middle East • Turkey • United Arab Emirates • Yemen 
Posted on Wed, July 21, 2010 at 22:17 pm CEST
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The Survival of Traditional Regimes in the Persian Gulf

If you had told experts in the mid-1960s that a half-century later every king and emir then ruling in the Persian Gulf would still be there, most would have been astonished… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Bahrain • Global Islam • Islamic Fundamentalism • Kuwait • Oman • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • The Middle East • United Arab Emirates • Wahhabism