Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for January 2010

Saudi Giver, College Taker, No Niqab or Burqa, Ergo Deal Canceled……

Shaikhs Under Siege: Open Sectarians, Apostates, and Foreign Spooks………

Iran in Denial: Impact of Sanctions……………

Hezbollah, Belgium, and Israel: What Would Poirot Say?......................

Two Hundred Years Later, a French-American Rivalry in the Caribbean?..………

Iraq’s Sectarian Politics, an Old Army of Shameful History……….

Haitians Don’t Live on Bread Alone? Pat Robertson and Toussaint L'Ouverture.................

Innocent Abroad? McCain Lost In Beirut, HR 2278.............

A Festival of Comedy in Tunis, What About Jordan?...............

Proof Positive of Netanyahu’s Stupidity?……..

What is a Rogue State, a Middle East State “Gone Rogue”…………….

Zealots for God, Zealots for Land……..

Mullahs Jazz it Up, Will Grunge hit Tehran Next?………………

Battle for Saudi Arabia: Wahhabi Shaikhs’ Last Stand, Website Burns Sistani, Claim Iraq Invasion Started from Najaf……………..

A Cruel Joke from Cairo: from Middle East Capital to Cultural Wasteland……..

A Small Taliban Tet? Eine Kleine Kabul Tet....................

Hezbollah Reports US Warning to Syria………

Middle East Media Mourn Iraqi Democracy, Saddam as a Stooge?...............

US Reported Warning Iraq on Elections: al-Maliki and the Ides of March.............

Al-Qaeda Franchises: from Mauretania to Maghreb with Love.............

Irate but Apologetic at the Wall, Women Rights in the Wrong Place…………….

IMF and Haiti: New Loans, Same Bureaucratic Tunnel Vision………….

Middle East Aid to Haiti……………….

IEDs Make their Debut in Iran……..

Middle East Nepotism: Abu Mazen’s Sons Go to Court, Again………………

The Bomb: Are They or Aren’t They?............

WMD: Deju Vu 2003 All Over Again?...............

“God’s Wise Man” Survives Drone? Do Terrorists Deny a Real Death?………..

Kazakhs Gone Nuclear, Iran Quiet on Uranium…………

Al-Qaeda in Jordan, Role of Humor……………

A More Sober View of Iran, Rentier States and Boring Old Deities……………….

Chile on the Brink: Another Success Story for Reaganomics?…………….

Watermelon Culture, And the Surprise Winner is Shaikh (.......)!

Young Bin Laden, Blond Bin Laden, Hiding in Plain View?…………….

The Jews of Kandahar and Waziristan, Peace Process Doomed……………….

Saudi Arabia Seeking to Supplant Dubai?...................

Epic of the Gaza Wall: from Egypt to Iran to Pat Robertson, the Freedom Wall of Congress?..........

Not Exactly Dr. Mengele of Texas, Death for $180 an Hour................

Pakistan Claims Mehsud Killed Again, “God’s Wise Man” as Native American…………….

Yemeni “Cowboys and Indians” Film: Claims al-Qaeda Leaders Killed, Again…………

German CDU Reforms, American GOP Regresses and Deforms...........

Lieberman Posturing for 2012, Violence and Terrorism at Military Bases……………

Iranian Cyber Basij Strikes Again?………………

Aping King David in Tel Aviv………….

Spaced Out at NASA, Boosted Higher……………

Expensive Vacuum Pumps for Iran, Hiding at a Fox News Mental Retreat………..

Cole on Yemen Zaidis, Huthi Metamorphosis………….

Basrah Council Takes Sides, Rather One side……………..

Soft on Terrorism, Soft in the Head, Fireproof Congressional Underwear……………

The Real Meaning of Green, Lobbyist Green…………….

Now Dubai Seeks to Rule the World, That Certain Forbes Smile…………..

Saudi Forces Eject Huthis, Regain Control, Again and Again and Again…….

Is It Over for the Party of Ben Gurion, Meir, and Dayan?..................

A New Take on the Holocaust, What About Ahmadinejad?..............

US Denies, Israel is Silent, Which Means………….

Falling Yemeni Warplanes, no Tehran Charlie Wilson, no Julia Roberts............

America’s Very Own Christian Salafi (One of Them)...........

A Crime of Passion, a Crime of Hatred, a Crime of Desperation………

Shaikh Al and the Ayatollahs of Iraq………….

Censoring the Middle East: U. S. Congress Concedes Defeat in War of Ideas………………

Why China Will NOT Dominate this Century……………

Iranian Royalists and Carthaginians: Who killed the Nuclear Scientist?........

Israel and Turkey: What is Anti-Semitism..........

Nigerian Leader Missing, Arabs not so Fortunate

Fire at Tizi Ouzu: L'Algérie est française Maintenant?

International Laws, Local Laws, Foreign Lands………….

Our Nuclear Gulf, that Other Middle East Nuclear issue………..

That Other Fundamentalism………..

Official Cleric “Excommunicates” al-Qaeda..........

Freeedom House Says It: Our Region Wins One, Again.........

Israeli Robots: the End of War? the End of History?……..

Also Sprach Albert Speer on the Slums of Dubai…………..

Oliver Stone Revisits Hitler, Stalin, Mao.........

La Tax Sur Les Bonus, How About ‘Freedom Bonuses’………….

Mediocre Expertise on the Gulf, Offshore Education, No NCAA or PAC-10..........

Where the (Chinese) Girls Are, or Not……………

Having a Voice in Egypt: a Price Too High, an Enemy Within………..

Oren or Clinton: a Question of Congressional Clout......................

No Arabian Jay Gatsby: Easy Come, Easy Go………….

The Nuclear Tooth Fairy in Tehran…………..

How International Sanctions Can Work: they Kill 'Expendable' People…………..

Arab Oligarchs Concerned about Iraqi Democracy, Again……………..

Angst and Agony at Goldman Sachs, Paying the Tuition, Slashing RDA at the Dorm…………..

Human Rights: Female Queen for Arabia, Ditching the Mule for a Car……………

Hot Air Balloon Economics in the Persian Gulf: a Brief Analysis…………

Blair-for-Hire: Poodles я Us............

Sensitive Tehran Hurt by Thoughtless Petraeus Comments……………

Photo Exhibit of an Inspector General, not Danny Kaye, my Cheap Shot……..

Cedar What? What Cedar Revolution?………….

The Rats of Dubai………….

Only in the GOP, Only a Dixie Schmuck…………

Iran: Detainee Murder Criticized, but No Punishment………..

And Destroys Farmhouses………..

Israel Approves New Fence with Egypt……….

Egypt Claims Pyramid Built by Free Men.............

¡Viva Justicia! On the Gulf…………….

Iranian Convert to Christianity, Saudi Convert to Buddhism, Plagiarism Too………..

Good News from Yemen, For Now...........

February!, Iran Leaders Fear the Mother of All Protests............

Is Dubai Going Celibate?...................

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