Category Archives: Arab World

The rise of popular democracy

Grassroots democracy Graham Peebles argues that an unstoppable worldwide movement of change is being created by the growing inculcation and expression of grassroots democratic principles, and that this momentum may just be strong enough to save the planet and usher in a new and just way of living. Read more [...]

(From hatred to empathy) من الكراهية إلى التعاطف

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern condoling relatives of the victims of the terror attacks on two mosques in Christchurch بقلممنذرهنداوي أظهرت Read more [...]

بقلم منذر هنداوي (The brain is not a refrigerator)

Frozen minds بقلم منذر هنداوي الدماغ Read more [...]

الطائفية، مرض الوطن القاتل (Sectarianism, the homeland’s murderous disease)

No to sectarianism بقلم منذر هنداوي الطائفية Read more [...]

حوارٍ بين رجل دين و إمرأة مومس (Dialogue between a cleric and a prostitute)

Dialogue بقلم منذر هنداوي أتذكر Read more [...]

المقاتلون الأجانب مجرمو حرب. (Foreign fighters are war criminals)

بقلم منذر هنداوي  شاهدت Read more [...]

Saudis’ Yemeni headache won’t go away if and when the guns fall silent

Yemen catastrophe James Dorsey says once the Saudi war on Yemen ends, the risk is of the emergence of a generation that has nothing to look forward to and nothing to lose – one that is likely to deeply resent what it perceives Saudi Arabia has done to its country. Read more [...]

To fight ignorance, tell the right story

Fact vs fiction Lawrence Davidson says the confusion of fiction and fact can often be used by people in authority to manipulate others and manufacture situations that lead to mass fear, discrimination and suspicion, and examines how this confusion can lead us in positive directions. Read more [...]

Prince Muhammad’s Khashoggi bullet: An insight into Saudi strategic thinking

Turki al-Dakhil and Muhammad vin Salman James Dorsey views Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s murderous strategy towards critics and highlights his efforts to use ties with Russia as leverage to ward off potential US pressure following the murder of writer Jamal Khashoggi. Read more [...]

Saudi Arabia and the West’s right wing: A dubious alliance

Saudi-far right links James Dorsey highlights Saudi Arabia’s courting of European far-right groups, including Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, the Danish People’s Party, the Swedish Democrats, and Europe of Nations and Freedom, a bloc of far-right parties in the European parliament. Read more [...]