Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for May 2011

Fighting Women of Bahrain, Tea Party Women of the Gulf………..

Ludovic Hood: American Hezbollah Supporter of Jewish Origins and Wife…………

Iran and Germany: a European Woman’s Burden……….

Political Masturbation on the Gulf: a King to Negotiate with Himself………

Debating the Bahrain Economy: Foreign Aid, Tourism, Boycotts, and Looting………….

A Race to be the Most Repressive and Violent Gulf State……….

Ahmadinejad and Khamenei: Making up Without actually Kissing……..

KKKK: Clinton and Obama and the Ku Klux al-Khalifa Klan of Bahrain……..

An Iranian Internet? a Recipe for Failure......

Lethal Burj Khalifa: Little Men Jumping to their Death in Dubai………….

Defining Kristallnacht, Regime Violence on the Gulf…………

More on the UAE Blackwater Mercenary Army.......

The Dog, the Cow, the Ass, and Arab Leaders……….

Is Egypt Still for Sale? Bi-Polar Non-Alignment………..

A Possible Hanging Record in Iran……..

Unholy Holy Land, Cheap Asian Women, Blood Money………..

The World’s Largest Prison for Women?………

Saudi Arabia is Buying Itself a Muslim Axis of Mercenaries…………

Military Gulf: US CYBERCOM starts a Gulf CyberCom Craze……….

An Al Khalifa Vignette: of Urine and Plastic Pipes……..

Iran: of Smuggled Choppers and Armor………..

Woodstock in Abu Dhabi: Kumbaya and a Love-Fest on the Gulf………

Iran: the Saga of Ali and Mahmoud Continues………….

Peninsula Mercenaries, Peninsula Foreign Legion, UAE……..

Gulf: Shield from Revolution? Shield of Autocracy? STD Shield?...........

Vengeful Bin Laden Coming to an IMAX Near You……

Middle East Peace Index, War Index……………

The Power of Boycott: Business Facing a Dark Future in Bahrain ………

Seriously, no Phallic Pun: Iranian Zob Eliminates Saudi al-Nassr……

United Arab Emirates, NYU , University of Sorbonne, Louvre, Guggenheim, Money, Lots of it…………

Pictorial: How to Apply for a Job on the Gulf………

What some Arabs Saw in the US Congress, Bibi….

How Americans Ruined a Great French Game: DSK, BHL, Le Livre Du Visage…………

The Self-Hating Semitic Nazis of Egypt……………….

Iranian Mullahs and the Beauty of Satellite Dishes…………

Egypt’s Salafis as the Snake in the Garden of Revolution………

Pro-Saudi Lebanese Shi’a Cleric Charged as Israeli Spy……….

Bahrain Website Reports on American-Khalifa Contacts………..

Is the Saudi Women Drive-in Protest DOA?……….

Mullah Omar and Bob Dylan on SNL………

Saudi Women, Saudi men: the Drive-in…..

Times a-Changing: Bob Dylan and Arab Revolutions…………

UAE: a Tribal State of the Union………

Iranian 9/11, Jewish Barbarossa, Tooth Fairy of Qandahar………..

Arabs Doubling Down after the Obama Speech………….

On My Gulf: Mercenary Nations………

Ahmadinejad on Water Wars, European Fears, and Emma Lazarus……….

The Abu Dhabi Empire Extends to Pakistan?..............

The Iran 'CIA' Espionage Plot Thickens……….

Financing World Terrorism: Corruption Inc……

Of Dogs and Men: Salafis of Bahrain Biting the Hand..……..

A Strange Iranian Case of a CIA Network………

Names from the Gulf to America: al-Saud, al-Khalifa, al-Obama, al-Clinton, al-Banana…….

Bahrain: the Al Khalifa Response to the Obama Speech………

The Law East of Jeddah: Life Can be Cheap but Magic Deadly………

Trafficking to the Seamy Side of my Gulf..……….

The Desaparecidos of Occupied Bahrain: a Tribal Gulag on my Gulf………

A Mercenary Song: Shaikh al-Nahayan of Colombia and Mexico…………

Obama and the Arabs and B.B. King: The Thrill is Gone……..

Britain’s Cameron Welcomes the Qaddafis of Bahrain……….

Cyber Spooks: Iran the Hacked, Iran the Hacker…….

New North Korea: Jeffrey Feltman al-Khalifa, James Steinberg al-Khalifa, Hillary Ro……

A Center of Finance Turns into a State of Terror………

Salafi Political Chaos in a Gulf State………..

A Blackwater Gulf, a Saudi Salafi Fifth Column………

Al-Saud as Arab Policemen? Correlation between Love and Oil Prices……..

al-Qaeda Picks Al Addle as Interim Leader………..

Sir Thomas More Al Shaikh, Saint Thomas Becket of Al-Azhar………..

Gruesome Justice in Iran: Talmudic, Biblical, or Quranic…….

A Saudi Prague Spring: a Guest of Honor and Shame………..

Hariri Family Affairs: of Saudi Masters and Money Troubles………

Iran: Khamenei and the Club of Worried Leaders………

Of Genomes, Iranians, Arabs, Jews, Gomorans, and Neanderthals…….

Bahrain Hearings: State Department is AWOL, the New Deciders of America……..

The Assault on the King of Bahrain……….

Ahamadinejad as Oliver Stone, Osama au masque de fer……….

Île du Diable: Healthcare in a Gulf Penal Colony……….

A Theocracy’s Troubles, Islamic Republic or Iranian Republic?………

GCC Women, Moroccan Beauties, Jordanian Humor….

The Jews of Manama? Drowning the revolution in Shia blood………

Two Futile Speeches: Obama and Osama……

UAE Flashpoint: Blackwater in Zayed Military City…………

SS Bahrain: Normal Life under Occupation………

Arab Revolutions: the Midterm Grades……….

Al-Qaeda Finances: Have Money, Will Travel………

Following Laika and Armstrong: Abu Dhabi and Iran Head Into Space………

An Iranian Exorcist, Saudi Muftis, Egyptian Abdelwahhab…………….

Shaikh Fatah and Prince Hamas and King Bibi of Palestine and the Gulf…

Ahmadinejad (and Obama) in a New Fight with Parliament………

Ahmadinejad Bows to Khamenei: no Iranian Trotsky………

A Salafi Education System, an Orphanage………….

Freedoms the GCC will Bring to Morocco and Jordan………….

Qatar and FIFA: Did They or Didn’t They?.........

Gulf WTF: Can the GCC Organize a Piss-Up in a Brewery?...................

Iran: Will Israel Break some Arab and Congressional Hearts?............

A Pissed Prince al-Waleed Responds…..

Al-Saud and al-Qaeda and Money: Friedman’s ménage à trois……

Gulf Despots and Jordanian Interrogators: a Love Story…….

On My Gulf: of Evil Eyes and Evil Kings and Jinns………

Osama Bin Laden’s iPad, Salafi Angry Bird………

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