Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for June 2009

Iraq in the Gulf Cooperation Council? Message to Secretary Gates: Forget About it.

Iran, Middle East States Dis-invited to Fourth of July. What About the Chinese?

On Australian Reporters, Amanpour, Hezbullah, a Renewed Iraq War

Iran Trumped by Sex, Death, and Schadenfreude

Of Mice, Arabian Women, and Madame Mousavi

What 'They' Say About Iran and Democracy. Iraq Bombings Resume

French Shorts in Riyadh: Of Niqabs, Thongs, and Ethnocentrism in Arabia

A China Syndrome in Tehran. Jefferson the Polygamist

Iran: Neda and Ali. Ba Ba Ba Ba Bomb McCain.

Political Sports: Egytptian Pharaohs, Persian Magis, Idol-worshipping Pagans, (What About Hezbullah)

Theocratic States of the Middle East

An Iran Message: Revolutions Have Consequences. Wishful on the Persian Gulf

United Nations: Are Human Rights a Relative Thing?

An Iranian Summer and Republican Family Values: Of Health Care, Sinful Sex, and the Romanovs

Zeitgeist: The Sorrows of Sir Allen Stanford, and Other Tales of Woe and Inconvenience

More Gulf Media Nausea: Fake Moon Landings and Extremely Sweet Arab Potentates

Gulf Monetary Union Blues. Of Trade Wars, Dead Warrior Kings, and Shekels

A Royal Middle East Definition of Vice and Virtue...and Free Speech

Fuzzy Iran Political Math: Of Genies and Mummies. So, Where in the World is Lieberman (Avigdor, not Joe)?

NAFTA, Trade and American In-sourcing. On Iran and Middle East Election Fraud

On Al-azhar, a Fascist Mufti, Shi’as, and Petro-Tourism

Iran Contradictions, Saudi Contradictions, and Egypt’s Two-Front War

Tale of Two Cities ‘09: Tehran, Cairo, and Political Despair. Did Obama Speak Under Martial Law?

Also Sprach Netanyahu? Politics and Economics of Middle East Swine Flu

On Arabs, Nobel Prizes, and Donations for a King's Campaign

Pyrrhic “Victory” in Iran: Ahmadinejad Wins, Khamenai Loses. End of A Mandate of Heaven?

GCC Gulf: On Halal Pork, Personal Hygiene, and Video Conferencing Potentates. The Most Boring Capital Ever

Old Middle East Arms Scandal Drips Again: Viva Yamama

Elliott Abrams on Mideast Democracy: Journalistic Travesty vs. Ground Reality

Kiss and Kill in Jordan: Gender, Honor, and Regional Politics

John Bolton’s Middle East: Reluctant Warrior, Closet Pacifist

The Grandpa Terrorist:: Waterboarding a Geezer. Ahmadinejad Uses the Hitler Card

Thomas Friedman and Inconvenient Lebanese Facts: Age of Feel-Good Soundbites

Hezbullah Claims Popular Vote Victory, Concedes Parliamentary Defeat.

Facebook Fun in Iran

Cheeky Facebook in the Middle East

From Pyongyang to the Nile: Durable Kims, Rising Sons of Guns

Lebanon and Iran: Obama Effect, Nobama Effect. Iran: and the (Nuclear) Beat Goes on........

Is It Goodbye Ahmadinejad. Iran & Lebanon Elections: the Obama Factor? Ministers of the Uncultured and Misinformed

A Clash of Sports Cultures: American Joy in Losing, Arab Ennui in Winning. Of Mariners, Elections, and Empty Gulf Stadiums

Newspeak of Middle East Politics: Winning is Losing. On Close Elections and American Magi Visitors

Wiesel and Ahmadinejad at Buchenwald. Unlearned Lessons of the Wars of 1967 and 1973. An Oil Embargo but No Arab Mitternich

A Political Ménage à Trois or Tacit Collusion. Does Obama Scare Muslim, Jewish, and American Salafis?

Obama's Cairo Speech: Reactions from the ‘Other’ Side

Of Mad Arabs Running for Office Against Mummies. al-Kookie's Lament

On Stability, Mubarak, Stalin, Kim, and Cher. The Swine Have the Last Laugh in Cairo

Betting the Goatherd on Nuclear Chic in the Middle East. Potentates and Their Dangling Nukes. Is Israel Pulling a Saddam?

Waterboard Tourists: Between Guantanamo, Cuba Libre, and the Middle East

The Un-Gitmo: Speedy "Justice" in Iran. CIA Operatives Gone "Japanese"?

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