Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus: Category Archive for Arabian Peninsula

Saudi Arabia: Death and Selective Pardons from the Sword……

New Arab Unknown: Elections Where no King Has Gone Before……..

Cement Shortages May not Save Mecca from its Las Vegas Future………

The GCC as a NATO of the Persian Gulf?.........

Failed Riyadh Summit: Was there Really a Plan for Gulf GCC Union? And Where is It?.................

Saudi Election Debates, Wild Women Drivers, the Mufti and a Catholic Riyal…….

An Existential Threat? Seeds of a Saudi Revolution?………….

Kangaroo Trial: Secret Saudi Court Sentences Human Rights Activist to Prison………

Lawlessness in Bahrain: Formula One East of the Pecos………….

Kingdom of Segregation: Extremism in the Eye of the Beholder…….

Gulf Prisoners of Conscience: AlKhawaja of Bahrain, al-Bejadi of Arabia, and Al Hypocritical West………….

A Gulf GCC Dilemma: Tribes without Flags……..

Euro-Babble about Stagnant Revolutionary Arabs and Dynamic Repressive Arabs……….

The Usual Suspects: Hezbollah and Hamas in Yemen and Casablanca………….

Defining Arab Regimes and States: Dynastic to pre-Communist Nirvana to a State of Flux.........

Paid Fatwa: Using Allah in Politics…………

Hateful Scientific Grand Mufti and Salafis Call for Destruction of All Gulf Churches……….

Arabian Peninsula: in a Remote Gulag in the Desert………

Should Pakistan Join the Gulf GCC? a Deal Breaker.......................

Of Iranian Mullahs, Saudi Princes, the Old Ikhwan, and Walled Cities on the Gulf.....

Libya and the GCC: a Garbled Speech, a King's Urge to Merge……….

A Rhetorical Arab Question: Where is the Oil Money………..

Gamal Abdel Nasser Bridge, King Abdullah Bridge, Ayatollah Khomeini Bridge…….

Impoverished People’s Kingdom of Arabia, Freedom in Prison…………

Electoral Democratic Joke: Yemen's 99.8% Landslide, a F--king Big Deal..................

Watermelon Country: Saudi King Gifts Lebanon’s Hariri $ 2 Billion for Valentine………..

Pictorial Decapitation: To Live and get Beheaded in Public in Riyadh…………

Great Saudi Debate: Women Watching Sports, Feminist Princes, Rah Rah Rah in Arabia…..

America Getting Ready to Liberate Syria from Itself: about Iraq and Libya and Maysaloon.......

Land of Desperate Poverty? a Child for Sale in the Land of Billionaire Princes…………

Eternal Political Triangle: the Arab King, the Gipper, and Iron-Pants Maggie…..

Royal Princess of Riyadh, Royal Apologists of Acton and the Gulf………

Arms Deals: New Saudi Defense Minister Starts his Piggy Bank.........

Neglected Arab Uprising: the Rumble in Qatif (and Nejd)..……………..

Saudi Leadership of GCC: Three Major Failures, Three Strikes but not Out, not yet……..

Funny Saudi Diplomacy: What Doesn’t Happen in Yemen Never Stays in Yemen……..

Arab Monarchies and Illusory Legitimacy: Oil and Opium, Mars or Uranus.........

Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia: Coming Oil and Gas Wars and Regional Hegemony.......

More Saudi Reforms: another Woman Beheaded for Magic and Sorcery, O Merlin……………

Saudi Universities: Buying Scientific Prestige without the “Science”, Converting Einstein and Teller to Islam…….

Houthis of Yemen: Facing the Saudis, Facing the GCC Salafis, Queen of Sheba………

A Kingdom without Magic: Saudi Forces Kill More Young Citizens in Qatif………..

Prince Nayef Reforms: Sexy Eyes as a Wahhabi Crime, Woman Blowing Nose in Public is Exciting……….

Indispensable King, Princes Flipping Falafel in Riyadh, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett as Arabian Caddies………

Saudis to Intensify Arms Race and Commission Race within the GCC…….

Bahrain (& maybe Qatar) Uncover another Stupid Terror Plot, about that Embassy Bombing……….

Gulf Arms Race: UAE JDAMS Bunker Busters, Bunkers of Sharjah and Fujairah……

Saudi Rivalry: Adios Prince of Plenty, Shalom Prince of Loyalty, Prince of al-Yamama.......

Indications: Obama Administration to Cancel All Military Sales to Saudi Arabia?………..

Arab Counterrevolution: Stoking Royal Salafi Fires on the Gulf…………..

Secret Sources of Saudi Wealth: Why Reform is a PR Mirage, Arabian Omerta......

Starry-Eyed Maureen Dowd of Wry Absolute Arabia: PR and “Keeping America Safe” …………

The Coming Wars of Saudi Succession?.........

Slaughterhouse Arabia: Saudis Going on a Beheading Rampage........

Saudi Invasion, Saudi Unrest: No Yellow Star of David?………….

Kitchen Clergy: Senior Saudi Cleric Pissed about Promise of Women Vote…….

Politics of Apartheid in the Persian-American Gulf.......

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Middle East Executions: Twenty Three Maids Waiting in a Row……….

On Gulf Intellectuals, Tribal Liberals and Arab Uprisings, the Edifying Hashtag, Oxymoronic Humor………..

Saudi Fear and Loathing.......

Arabian Peninsula: “Winter Trips” and “Summer Trips”, Liaisons in Yemen ……….

Street Children of Cairo: a Legacy of Mubarak and his Allies……………

King Al Capone of Saudi Arabia……………..

Saudi Anti-Terror Law subject to Revision? About U.S. Bible Belt Worries...........

Saudi Torquemada: Media Obsession with Jewish Roots……………

Chopping Season Premiere: Saudi Arabia Chops Three Heads Publicly……..

The Real Battle for Iran and Arabia: Tribe and Nation and Islam……….

Gulf GCC: on Jordanian Accession, Roman Dinarius, Israeli Shekel, and Kosher Currency……

Royals and Sissies of Arabia, Unite!........

Princes Tighten the Screws: Saudi Arabia Finally Responds to the Obama Middle East Speech…….

Saudi “La Pasionaria”? “Smiling” Princess Blasts her Kingdom to Kingdom Come…………..

Hala Aldosari: a Passionate Arab Mother, a Passionless Saudi Prince……..

Torturers R Us? Bahrain Regime now Torments Athletes…………

A Peninsula of Fear: Formerly Free Noble People, Thousands of Princes..........……

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saudi Al Al Shaikh in the Driver’s Seat………….

Gulf ‘Islamist’ Woman Suggests Legalizing Concubines…………..

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

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

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

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

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

Post Bin Laden: Will al-Qaeda Come in From the Cold?.............

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