Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for June 2011

Arab Despots and the Joys of Extremism and Anarchy…….

Saudi Arabia: Love and Marriage under a Tribal Totalitarian Oligarchy………

Bahrain: Exit Shaikh Formula One, Enter Shaikh Anime, Little Prix……

Winking Fundamentalists: Those Timid Salafis and their Wilder Women………

UAE: Repression and Rancor Beneath the Brotherly Veneer……..

Iraqi Regionalism Rears its Head Again, about Secession…....

Google, the Internet, Middle East Bloggers, and the Ruling Potentates………….

Nothing Left to Lose: Freedom and Janice Joplin in Occupied Bahrain…………

Iranian IRGC: Downed US Planes, Hidden Missiles, Hungry Prisoners…………

Libya: a Creeping Invasion? What about Iraq?.............

Totalitarian Marriage: Saudis Must Get Government Approval to Marry Outsiders……

SS Manama: Who is Colonel Flaifel? Why are People Terrified of Him? Why is he Invited to Regime Dialog?.......

A WTF Revolution? Saudi Women Selling Lingerie to other Women in Women Only Malls………..

East Jerusalem: Tony Blair Joins Rich Settlers in Shaikh Jarrah…….,

World Bank to Tackle Corruption in Poorer Developing Countries only……….

Beach Boys Anti-Terrorism: A New Barbara Ann Axis in Iran..............

Fisk on Occupied Bahrain: a Unilateral Invasion, a King ‘sin Cojones’................

Welfare Economics of the Bahrain Potentates: Shaikh Welfare………

On the Gulf: Welfare for the Potentates of UAE…………

Rabbi Boteach is Pissed at the Saudi Regime, Again……..

Iran’s Ali Larijani and the Pineapples, About those Virgin Piña Coladas?.........

On the Gulf: Land of the Potentates, Home of the Fearful?.............

A Small Purge in Iran: Ahmadinejad Allies Arrested…………

Iran in East Africa: a Threat to Eritrea, al-Azhar, and the King of Morocco?...........

Oh Human Rights, Oh Despotic Rights……..

Guess Whose War Allies are in Tehran…………….

Hassan Nasrallah, International Espionage, Mossad, and the CIA………….

Five more Iranian Nuclear Scientists Killed: an Accident?..........

Time to Leave Iraq Completely, GTH Out……………….

TGV in Mesopotamia: Iraq Beats the United States in High-Speed Rail…………

Gulf of Hezbollah, Sasquatch of the Pacific Northwest, Yeti of Asia……..

Iran: Is Ahmadinejad in Deep Doo Doo? He Will Survive this Messianic Faux Pas.........

WTF: BHL Tries to Redraw the MENA Map and Politics………..

American Allies: Defining a Kangaroo on the Persian-American Gulf…………

Hoover of Arabia: a Chicken in Every Pot, a Car in Every Garage, Two Asian Maids in Every House………

West Wing of Arabia……..

On My Gulf: a Small State of Thuggery and Fake Terrorism……..

Lebanon’s Hariri Chooses Paris over Riyadh………….

Joke of the Day: Tony Blair Preaches on Morality………….

Bahrain Kangaroo Court Passes Saudi Sentences on the Opposition………

Another Asian Housemaid Beheaded, about Stoning……….

A Gulf of Mercenaries: Arab Potentates Discover the Joys of Hired Foreign Guns……….

Al-Shamikha of Al-Qaeda: Salafi Women Discover Victoria’s Secret………

World Revolution Redux? a Wal-Mart World, PIGS of Europe, Arab Spring, Che Guevara……….

Has NATO Found its Libyan Karzai?............

Tehran Holds Counter-Terrorism Conference: United States Unlikely to Attend……..

Mystery of the Missing Iraq Money: do I hear 6, do I Hear 18……..

Case of Egypt: Revolution or ‘la vache qui rit 2’……

Case of Bahrain: Uprising or Reform, Poet Ayat on Television ……..

Saudi (Arabian Peninsula): Reform or Rebellion……..

Syria: Revolution or Reform……..

1984 in Occupied Bahrain: a Ministry of Human Rights? Expatriates and Lackeys and Abe Lincoln and Bob Marley............

Palestinian Discord and Overflowing Peace: I Told You So……..

Fighting for Jordan: the GCC and America and Compelling Economics……

Salafis of the Gulf: Saudi Paymasters, and a Kosher Homey in Abbottabad……..

Rabbinical Court: Look who Almost Got Stoned in Israel………

On Iran, Egypt, Arab Revolutions, and Military Power……….

Political Nirvana: Hillary Clinton Writes to the Saudi People about Freedom for Syrians…….

Possibly a New Egypt, Same Old Saudi Arabia……………….

UAE Rejoins the Third World: Petrol Shortages, Gas Lines…………

Iran in Space: Yesterday’s Turtle, Today’s Monkey, Tomorrow’s Cleric?...........

On the Gulf : Robbers of Land, Thieves of Freedom…………

Bahrain and Jordan: Brothers in Repression and Other Things………

GCC Expansion: Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, Malaysia……….

A Country of Princes on Wheelchairs, Corrupt Men in Suvs, Scurrying Faceless Women……

Maureen Dowd, Prince al-Waleed, and the Liberation of Saudi Princesses……….

Iran and the West: Fear of Nuclear Weapons or a Rivalry for Hegemony………

UAE: Fake Elections in Sycophantic Arab Emirates……..

Bahrain: Clueless Rulers on a Lawsuit Rampage………

Mr. Sykes, Mr. Picot, Remaking the Arab World in Their Image…….

Iran: Breaking Hearts but not Spirits in the Middle East……….

A Saudi Diversion: Unmarriageable Female Drivers, of Men and Sheep……..

Kangaroo State of Bahrain: Poet Gets Torture and Prison Term for a Verse………

Syrian Refugees Flooding into Turkey Explained: Visiting their 'Mums'………….

Arab Spring of Revolutions and Beheadings, Dan Quayle and Kyrgyzstan......……..

Egypt in Revolution: Democracy or Soft Dictatorship ?………..

Bahrain Regime Hires DC Underwear Specialist: Fruit of the Loom not Mothercare……..

A Saudi Voice of His Masters on Arab Uprisings: Sweet Anarchy………

Saudi Arabia: Opposing Democracy and Sex on the Beach…………..

Menotti in Abu Dhabi: Zayed and the Dream, Khalifa and the Midnight Visitors……….

Forget Palestine in 2012: Has Netanyahu Shifted the Focus to Iran Again?……………

A New Secret Weapon on the Gulf: Shaikh Suhayel ……….

Public Contempt and a Gulf Regime Obsessed with Human Waste………..

The Gulf and Iran and Iraq: of Energy Shortages and Aromatic Sewer Issues………

Ahmadinejad Stopped at the Gates of Vienna………

Ruling the Red Sea Waves: Iranian Mullahs vs. Abu Dhabi Mercenaries………..

Are Bahrain Shaikhs Feeding Faeces to Medical Doctors ?...........

The United States, Pakistani Nuclear Facilities, and Ahmadinejad……..

Oh Circumcision: the Frisco Foreskin Conspiracy, Jews, Muslims, Kooks…………

Soviet Iranian Cyber Wars, a Congressman’s Cyber Photo………

The Gulf from Emergency Law to a Reign of Terror: Apartheid being fine-tuned, reinforced ………

The Persian-American-Colombian-Blackwater Gulf: a Salafi Strategic Depth with Mercenary Armies………..

The Arabs Going Back to 1918? Revisiting 1967-2011……………

An Old Game of Lebanese-Saudi Musical Chairs on the Gulf………….

Hitler’s Olympics in Berlin, the al-Saud FIA Grand Prix in Bahrain………..

An Iraqi Tragedy: Sins of Fathers, Sins of Children……..

Mohamed Albuflasa of Bahrain, Ibrahim Sharif of Bahrain……

Saudi Hospitality: Emma Lazarus of Arabia, Lady Liberty in Burq'a………

Iranian Technology: First a Cyber War, now Psych War…………

Formula One: King of Occupied Bahrain Hailed as Hero by His family………

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