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Middle East Focus: Category Archive for Gulf states

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

Hormuz: Controversial Islands in the Gulf………

Select GCC Youth Conference Looks up to Cool Ancient Saudi Princes, Pushes Wahhabi Hegemony…………

Love and Marriage in the Gulf GCC: Polygamy and Twitter………..

Arab League Water Experts and Hammarah of the Gulf: our Sharq Barcha et Vin Rosé…………

Salafi La Leche League: Dueling Gulf Fatwas on Kosher Foreplay and Suckling and Milk………………

Dhahi Khalfan in Kuwait: Warns Gulf GCC of a Muslim Brotherhood Plot....

A Gulf GCC Mouth and Dental Health Confederation …………..

Nuclear Persian Gulf: Abu Dhabi Mon amour, Bushehr Mon Amour, Fukushima Mon Amour ………..

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

GCC to AGUC: Camel Gives Birth to a Mouse, Arabizing the Leaders……….

Watermelon Country: Kings and Princes and Stolen Lands on the Gulf………

Gulf GCC Gemütlichkeit: Expanded Membership and Wahhabi Rah Rah Rah……..

Honey and Onion: Do Saudi Princes Trust Qataris? Do Qataris Trust Saudi Princes?.............

The Tony Blair Israeli-Palestinian Barbershop Quartet……….

Tweeting Mohammed: Kashghari and the Princes and the Wahhabi Palace Clergy…….

A Blood Red Valentine’s Day Coming to Bahrain…………….

On Arab Uprisings and Crazy Illusory Iranian Ideas, Salafi Money vs. Salafi Opium………

True Lies in New York: Syrian Hypocrisy Prizes at the UN ………..

Map of Hormuz: Gulf of CENTCOM………….

The Next War: Saudis Succeed in Aligning Gulf States with the American-Israeli Position……..

Remember Joe (Judas) Lieberman? He is Alive and Well and Homesick for Iraq……..

Iran Tries to Reassure the Neighborhood…….

Qataris and Saudis: is it a New Misyar Marriage? a Sober FIFA……..

Arab Legends: Obama in Bush and Cheney’s Footsteps? Salafi Plots from the Old Testament and Babylon .........

Bahrain Sports: all in the Family, Jordanian Humor…………

A Salafi al-Qaeda Crescent: from the Gulf to Iraq and Syria and Lebanon (and Egypt?)……………

Orwellian Bahrain: Human Rights Ministry, Ministry of Apartheid………….

Saudi Urge to Merge the GCC: pan-Tribal pan-Dynastic Union, a Mufti to the Rescue ………..

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

Funny GCC Confederation : a Salafi Fifth Column, Princes Playing Saddam........

Shaikh Abdulwahhab of Nejd, Bon Vivant Abdelwahab of Cairo, Shaikh of Qatar, Sectarian Princes…………..

Bahrain: Prime Minister Praises Security Thugs, Baltagiyya, and Imported Mercenaries…………..

Those Underrated Powerful Asses of the GCC States………

Petroleum Markets, Kosher Salafi Simians, Watermelon Countries, and Katie Bar the Door…….

Economics of Labor and Limb Atrophy in the GCC: a Racket, n'est-ce pas?.......

GCC Bird on the Wire: a Gulf Suggestion, from Old Confused GCC to New Arab League………

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

Tony Blair going Madoff: Investment Banker to Potentates, when Firerush and Windrush mean Oil Rush………..

Humor in Bahrain: Integrity in a Den of Thieves………….

Conflicting Gulf Signals: Whom to Believe, the al-Nahayan Brothers or the Shaikh of Dubai………

Riyadh Gathering of Flunkies: no Iranians, but a Turki and a Gargasha from UAE, Mutual “Satisfaction”……..

Offshore Country on my Gulf: UAE Minority Culture, Bollywood Hits…………..

The Other New Masters of Egypt and the Guardians of the Constitution…………………

Abu Dhabi: Adventures of Shaikh Shakhbut with Nasser of Egypt and the Saudi Bins………

Gulf History: Shakhbut, Shaikh Jackpot of Abu Dhabi…………..

Salafis of Egypt and the Arab World, a Muslim Brotherhood Comintern………….

GCC: Salafis and Wahhabi Faux-Liberals Call for a Saudi Anschluss, a Polygamous Tribal Führer?........

Cool New Bahrain Technocrats: Bin Technocrat Al Khalifa...........

Saudi-Israeli War Games: of Semites and Anti-Semites…………

Equivocal IAEA Iran Report: the Day After the War, a Love Story………….

America Abroad: Leaving Iraq, Hunkering Down in the Gulf.......

Romney Middle East Policy Adviser: Hiking on the Iranian Border, spelling S-T-U-P-I-D-I-T-Y......

Saudi Media Mourn Prince Sultan: Prince of Plenty...........

Irony of Smug Western Arrogance: Iranian Navy a Danger to the “Persian” Gulf………………….

Irony of Smug Western Arrogance: Iranian Navy a Danger to the “Persian” Gulf………………….

Smiling Arab Leaders, the Boumedienne Syndrome, the Ahmadinejad Syndrome……….

American Schism: Salafis vs. Shi’as vs. Mormons vs….....

WTF: Railway Link to Yemen? From Funny GCC to Asinine GCC…………

A Very Curious Case of Corruption on the Gulf, Oh Watermelon…………

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Battle of Bahrain, the Battle of Algiers…………

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

Petroleum Rivalries Turning OPEC Upside Down……….

Iranian Politics: the Hip Faction and the Nerdy Mullahs…………

Competition over Iraq: a Fatwa on Zero-Sum Tribal Foreign Policies………….

On the Gulf: Whitehall and the Dream, Amahl and……..

Fear Mongering: Liz and Dick and the Princes and the Potentates and Ground Zero…………

On the Gulf: a Hezbollah Agent, a Friend of the US State Department……

Gulf King also Hailed by Current GCC Secretary and Former Retainer…….

Song of Bahrain: “the Yanks are Coming?”, No “the Pakis are Coming”………

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

History of Culture on my Gulf: Tagore Alive in my Elementary School……..

Smart Heathen Women and Gay Diplomats of Bahrain………

Murdoch, Prince al-Waleed, Citigroup, Falafel King, and other Winners…………

My Gulf: Iranian War Games, Saudi War Games, Everybody’s Happy War Games………

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

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

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

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

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

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

British in my Gulf: from Piracy to Trucial Colonies………….

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

Gulf Going Nuclear: O Fukushima Daiichi, Soup Du Jour………

Rape Cells of Occupied Bahrain: Equal Opportunity Abuse…………

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

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

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

On My Gulf: Mercenary Nations………

Financing World Terrorism: Corruption Inc……

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

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

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