Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for September 2011

Iran: On Religious Freedom, What Religious Freedom?...............

Human Rights: GCC and Egypt and Jordan and Morocco, Terra Humorless…………..

Oh Oh Lockerbie, and STL of Lebanon, and Tony Blair, and the Fab Four………

Egypt’s Love Affair with Free Media Resumes, Will Joining the GCC be Next?............

McCain and Graham Lose Lieberman, Abandon Iraq, Seek to Settle in Libya, about Grits…………

Privately Run Public Gulags: Immigrant Detention Camps of America, Britain, and Australia…………..

Emirati Activists Charged for Flipping off the Potentates and for Terrorism……..

Watermelon Laws: Emirati Pursues Happiness in Amsterdam, Goes to Jail in Abu Dhabi…..

Peninsula Shield Chutzpah in Bahrain: Saudi General to Sue Media…………

Israeli Tea Party Seeks One State with Arab Majority: Apartheid Bahrain or Apartheid South Africa?…………

Al-Qaeda Blasts Ahmadinejad for Casting Doubt on 9/11: be Logical, not Ridiculous……

Newt Gingrich to go Hiking in Iran-Iraq Border Area……….

Middle East Mu Sheng: Peanuts in Tehran and Riyadh and Abu Dhabi and…….

Gulf Confusion: Hired Jordanian Torturers Ordered Expelled...........

Paul Simon in Arabia: Saudis Return Nasty Saleh, Keep Amiable Bin Ali…………

Bani Walid: Not Exactly Stalingrad, but.................

Al Khlifa vs. Al Khalifa: Fight Over a Small Looted Island…………..

Iran’s Biggest Bank Embezzlement, Oh Oh Ahmadinejad………….

Iranian Navy to Patrol the Gulf (of Mexico)…………..

Saudi King Set to Pardon Female Driver: Driving Cars vs. Riding Asses………

Possible Arab Sweep of Nobel Prizes: Egyptians for Peace and Kings for Repression……

Israeli Zoos and Displaced Species……….

Iran and Sudan, Libya and Zimbabwe: should NATO be Worried?.............

Bahrain Trifecta: American Weapons, Saudi Money, Pakistani Mercenaries………

Gangs of Arabia: Oil Fiefdoms and Turf Wars, Ivanhoe and Isaac of Qatif…………

A King's Speech: about the Ummah and an Ayatollah……….

Egypt’s Revolution Faces an Illegal Abortion: It's the Toothpaste, Stupid……………

Tony Blair as Scarlett O’Hara: Blair-Gate and the never Ending Saga of International Corruption………..

Animal Farm: King Welcomes Some Foreign Intervention in All Arab States……….

PR Nation: Women to Vote? But for What? About Driving...........

The Longest Hike: Club Tehran, Club Med…………

They Are Losing their Heads: another Sorcerer Beheaded in Saudi………

Saudi Counterrevolution: the Hadith Loophole, the Salafi Alibi………

Red Sea as Mare Nostrum of al-Qaeda? Saudis and Yemen...................

Delusional Bahrain: Despots and Miscreants and a Precocious Schmuck Minister………….

Arab Absolute Monarchs Funding Democracy in Egypt? Democratic People's Republic of (Saudi) Arabia...……

The Next Nuclear Failed State………….

Mohsen Makhmalbaf: an Iranian Icon on the Run, Weaver of Velvet………

Iraq: Muqtada al-Sadr on the Hezbollah Trail…….

Corruption in the French Political Class, or ‘what bears do in the forest’……

Civil War in Bahrain? in everything but name………….

Ahmadinejad on the U.S. Economy, his American Well-Wishers…….

From Tehran to Riyadh: Cranking up the Censorship Machine.........

Is the Libyan Insurgency becoming the Libyan War?…………..

Next Year in Jerusalem, Next Year in New York, Next Year at the U.N.………….

Post-Abbottabad: Salafi Blood-fest Continues in Pakistan and Iraq………

Politics as a Joke: Arab Parliament, WTF Parliament, on Electing Dog-catchers……..

Arabian Peninsula: between Salafi Wahhabi Dogma and the Greed of Potentates…………..

UAE Crime Alphabet Soup: from a Local Ms. Bobbitt to Other “Cultural” News………….

A Tale of Two Arab Despots, a Tale of Two Invasions, a Tale of Two NATO Elections………

From Washington to Tehran and Pyongyang and Islamabad: the Temptation of the Mullahs………

Gulf GCC Currency Union: of Apricots and Monetary Watermelons……………

Tony Blair’s Never Ending Lobbying Act: Living on Uranus……..

The Coming Real Battle for the Soul of Egypt………….

Getting Ready for a Tea Party? Iranians Claim anti-Cruise Radar……..

Lloyds Sues Saudis for 9/11, Wisdom of Qaddafi.............

Expanded GCC? Picking Security over Economics, More on Black Magic......

Manna from the Ground: Israeli Gas, Lebanese Gas, Diplomatic Gas............

On Mainstream Muslims, Falafel, Terrorism, and a Hole in the Ground.........

Middle East Balderdash: Also Sprach Michelle Bachmann………..

Mysterious Bodies of Jazan: CSI for an Arabian Abattoir......

The West on Syria and Bahrain and Libya: Torn Between Two Lovers, Feeling Like a Fool……..

A New GCC: Saudi Women, Moroccan Women, Black Magic, White Magic.......

Sex Trafficking by the “International Community”: the United Nations, International Monetary "Fun", IBRD………..

A Song of Lebanon: Oh Cluster Bombs, Oh Cluster Bombs…………..

The Arab World’s Second Somalia, or is it Sudan?………

The Orwellian Glory of Bahrain? Khalifa and Winston Smith and O’Brien...................

Of Libyan Islamist Factions and the American Tea Party………….

Khamenei on “Islamic” Arab Uprisings…………..

The Turks are Coming: Erdogan as a Softer Gentler Ahmadinejad?..............

NATO and the Arab World: Are Happy Days Here Again? When Potentates are Divine and Groveling is Hip.......

Nuclear Iran: Condi Rice’s Mushroom Cloud 2.0……….

On Bushehr Nuclear Power, Zaroastrian and Royal Pagan Rites on my Gulf of Madness……..

Gulf Arms Race: the Best Armed Foreign Mercenaries, it is the Commission, Stupid!………

United States of Paranoia? Imported Baggage, “Native” Baggage, Pakistani Beaver Hunters.................

Executions: the Islamic Kingdom of the Republic of Texas………

Terrorism in Iraq: a Love-Hate Relationship with America, a Repossessed SOFA……..

The Right Wing Arab Spring: will Libya Join the New Humorous GCC?………

Bahrain Opposition, Jordanian Fondlers, About Moroccan Humor, GCC Potentates, etc………….

OFMQ: Old Friends of Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi…………

Saudi Arabia: Where God is Great but Greed is at least Good………………

Breaking News! Tony Blair as Windsor, Solves the Iraq Fiasco and Afghanistan……….

Iranian Economy: Maserati Mullahs, Porsche Bazaris, IMF Salafis………….

A Vampire Saga of FH and ZN: From Transylvania to the UAE, Via Pakistan……….

Tony Blair Frustrated on Palestine, a Nobel Prize in WMD, Hamas or Fatah………

Sarkozy and his Celebrity Philosopher Have a Good War, Hit the Shores of Tripoli………

Prince: Steady Saudi Progress in Space Science, Forget Astronomy and Saturn and the Moon……..

Syria and Iraq and the Arabs: the New Iranian-Turkish Regional Rivalry………….

UAE: Politics, Devilish Violent Crimes, Generals and Potentates with Missiles……..

Middle East UFO: Why Elusive Aliens Love China and New Mexico?.............

Economics of Repression and Sticky Fingers on the Gulf: It’s the Aggregate Demand Stupid!………

New Janissaries: the Pakistani Army of my Gulf…………….

On Globalization and Forced Sex and Sweatshops and Jordanian Humor, a Plebeian DSK in Irbid, IMF…….

Saudi Astronomers: Torn Between Saturn and our Moon………

Military Chief of the Libyan Mujahideen…………..

An Entebbe Complex? Gates on Netanyahu the Ungrateful, Tzipi Livni and Sarah Palin……….

Syrian Godot? Waiting for Damascus and Aleppo, about Baghdad and Tripoli…………

Iran: Resilient Mullahs Face a New Threat, Future NRA Members……….

Viagra-Gate? On Elderly Leaders, Hormone Injections, an Embassy Cable……..

Syria: Between the Ba’athist Frying Pan and an Unknown Promising Fire……..

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