Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus: Category Archive for Arab Politics

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

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

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

Friends of Libya, Foes of Freedom, Napoleon in Tripoli……..

Iraqi Politics: Strange Leadership, Passing the Buck Iraqiya Style………

Al Qaeda in Lebanon: Who Killed Hariri? Who Really Knows? Who Really Cares?............

Africa, the Arab World, the (New) New Colonialism………….

Abrams Pissed at Qatar, When in Rome and Carthage………

Iran's "Guest Worshiper" Solving Palestine: Muslim Clergy, Israeli Clergy, American and French Clergy…….

Arab Uprisings: the Mixed Scorecard......

The Great Arab Revolt of 2011: about T.E. Lawrence, Sykes-Picot, Tiramisu, and Apple Pie……….

The New (More) Islamic Republics of Arabia………

Sherlock Holmes vs. Poirot in Lebanon: the Hariri STL Legal and Political Non-Event………….

Al-Qaeda in Iraq: Refinancing or Issuing Islamic Paper………….

NATO and the New Arab Mandate: East Libya and West Libya and Gertrude Bell………..

On Iraqi SOFA, the Sadrists, Republican Hawks (& Hillary Clinton), and Fiscal Policy………

An Arab Spring of Yesterday’s Men , a New Jewish Spring, an American Tea Party Madness……….

Gulf GCC: Moroccan Couscous Controversy, Jordanian Humor Controversy……..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Joys of Media Lobotomy and Red Lines Around My Gulf…….

From Tehran to Doha to Riyadh to Abu Dhabi: Watching the World Go By, a Talent for Boring………….

WTF is Osama? Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri React to Arab Revolutions………

Powerful Princes, Comfortable Clergy, Madoff and Goldman of Arabia……….

With Martian Invasion Delayed, Saudi and UAE Leaders Hesitate to Arm Libyans……

On LSE, Colonel Qaddafi, and a Late Gulf Potentate………

After Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain: UAE Seeks Seat on UN Human Rights Council…….

New Arab League? An Egyptian Saying about Killings and Funerals and Chutzpah……

Islamic Scholars Opine on Revolution, Oppression, and the Shari’a…………

Iranian Disinformation Games: on Winning Middle East Elections……

My Fatwa on all Fatwas: Extremist Fatwas and an Evil Majority on my Gulf……..

Google Earth, a Greedy Gulf Ruling Family, and Overflowing Peace in Palestine, no Cat’s Meow……….

Arab Autocrats Burning their Reichstags………..

Another Funny Fatwa on Libya and Revolutions………….

On Revolutionary House Shaikhs and Maoist Ulema……..

No More Fear: Gannouchi Out, Shafiq of Egypt and Khalifa of Bahrain to Follow……

On Arabian Tectonic Plates, a Last Stubborn Kingdom?……

A Wahhabi Salafi View of Gulf Events, a Goateed Mea Culpa………

Public Health Plans: Treating Mubarak vs. Treating Princes……..

Amnesty International on Training Arab Security Forces and Assorted Thugs….

How Salafis see the Arab Revolutions.............

A New Arab without Fear: Look at This Picture..........

Where is al-Qaeda in the Great Arab Revolt?..........

Arab Revolts: an Old Dream and a Brave Man on the Gulf…………

Gulf Media and Bahrain: no Profiles in Courage………..

The Arab Rebellion: the Forgotten Logical Evolution of Popular Will………..

Paul Simon: Fifty Ways to Leave Your Arab Despot……………

The Fires of Tunis and Cairo: May the Rage Continue………

Saudi Editor Calls for Free and Open Elections………..

A Street Legacy of Mubarak, a Shame of His Friends………..

U.S.: Iran, Saudi Arabia, and UAE must Allow their People Protest....

Arab Friends of Mubarak, Chilling at Sharm El-Shaikh......

Revival of Arab Hope and Pride?……………

Mubarak's Final Speech: of Arab Despots and SOBs.......

Bahrain Valentine: A Crown Prince Opines on Arab Peculiarities……

Post-Egypt: Protecting the Turf in Arabia………

Arab Catharsis: in Praise of Instability and Turmoil……

Israel and her Arabs Allies: the People of Egypt Will Remember That……..

Reform as Cruel Obscenity in the Middle East: Royals to the Moon and Mars.........

Why so Few Arab Thinkers?......

Why so Many Arab Thinkers?.......

From Tehran to Harat Hrayek to Tunis and Cairo……..

Message to Obama: the Saudi Era is Over, the Saudi Era Never Existed…….

In Defense of Autocratic Arab Kleptocracies……

Return of Gamal Abdel-Nasser , End of the ‘Saudi Era”……

What Comes After Egypt? Mad Shores of Tripoli………...

Saudi Mufti says Revolutionary Self-Immolation not Kosher, Shaikh Al and Abdelwahhab and Music…….

Colonel Gaddafi and His Neighbors: Revolutionary Leaders, Revolting Leaders………

Arab Leaders Meet in Egypt’s New Capital, Without Muthaffar al-Nawwab…….

Winter of Arab Fires, Winter of Naked Arab Emperors, Winter of Arab Discontent……

Rise of Arab Absolute Tribal Monarchies, Inconvenient Facts………

What Tunisian Revolution? Old Regime Keeps Power………

Common Cause: Gaddafi and the Arab Absolute Oligarchs, an Egyptian Promise…………

Just an Ordinary Paper with a Saudi Owner, Incestuous Media…….

Middle East Unrest: Media Myopia in the West……..

The Burden of Tunisians: Don’t Just Change a Regime, Change History……

Secretary Clinton Blasts Arab Autocrats, Marginal Productivity of Bullets Fired………

Turko-Persian Influences, How Nasrallah says ‘Three’ and ‘Two’ in Lebanese……..

A Plot to Shift Arab Summit from Baghdad Fails…………

This Year: the Mirage of an Arab Spring………….

Chutzpah: Feminist Saudi Media (and maybe MEMRI) Pissed at Lack of Women in Iraqi Cabinet……..

Arab Year of More and Less: more Weapons, more Irrelevance, more Frustration, less Influence…...

Tackling the Middle East Monopoly of Power Selectively………

In Tunisia: the Fire Next Time, the Fire Now…………..

Ahmadinejad’s Tea Party, an Arab World without Charisma …..

Al-Maliki Rules Out Iraqi Alliances with USA, Iran, or the Arabs…………

After Egypt’s Rigged Election: Kicking a Dead Horse…….

Egypt’s Pigs Strike Back, Porcine War Resumes, the Pennsylvania Dutch……….

Rudyard Kipling of Arabia: a Christmas Wish List for Israel…………

The Lost Battles of Algiers………

The Arab League: We Are All Robert Mugabe………

Nasrallah, the Frustrated Richelieu of Lebanon……..

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