Tag Archives: Bahrain

The Five Minutes to Midnight Podcast

Five Minutes to Midnight logo The Five Minutes to Midnight podcast explains intractable issues in international politics with in-depth insight and analysis from experts – journalists, academics and activists. Read more [...]

Listen: Saudi and Gulf relations and influence in the Arab world

Dr James M. Dorseyx Dr James Dorsey, Adjunct Senior Fellow at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, analyses the relations between the Persian/Arab Gulf states and their influence on other Arab countries. He also explains the motives behind the United Arab Emirates’ normalisation of relations with Israel. His syndicated column and other podcasts can be found at www.jamesmdorsey.net Read more [...]

Saudi religious diplomacy targets Jerusalem

Saudi-Israeli love affair

James Dorsey analyses Saudi-UAE efforts to seize control of Israeli-occupied Jerusalem’s Islamic sites from Jordan, which include overtures to Israel and coopting Palestinian collaborators, foremost disgraced former security official Muhammad Dahlan. Read more [...]

Trump’s chaos produces results: Gulf states upgrade ties to Israel

Bahraini king holding menorah

James Dorsey examines moves by Arab Gulf states to seduce Israel, with Bahrain even denouncing the boycott of the Zionist state, possibly in the hope that they can benefit from the Jewish community’s influence in the US. Read more [...]

Say “no” to the Saudis and their Gulf allies

Power to the people

Nureddin Sabir views the Saudi role in promoting Islamist cults, criminal groups and deviant, primitive variants of Islam in Arab societies, and calls for mass actions to expose and eradicate Saudi influence. Read more [...]

The Arab Spring: was it worth it?

Nureddin Sabir says there is no alternative to the pain unleashed by the Arab Spring if Arabs are to realize their aspirations for democracy, accountability, civil society and the rule of law. Read more [...]

Bahrain and the Israeli connection

Lawrence Davidson argues that USA’s double standards in Bahrain can be directly linked to its desire to control the Gulf’s oil supplies and to the Bahraini ruler’s friendship with Israel. Read more [...]

Arab dinosaurs play sectarian card

Yvonne Ridley argues that the dinosaur rulers of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Arab world would go to any length, including fomenting sectarianism, to maintain their grip on power. Read more [...]

Bahrain bleeds for liberty

Mamoon Alabbasi views the hypocrisy and double standards displayed by Western politicians and media towards the pro-democracy movement in Bahrain. Read more [...]