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Middle East Focus: Category Archive for UAE

Dhahi Khalfan on Leash: from the Gulf to Bismarck to North Dakota………

WTF UAE: Shaikhs Bin Technocrat and Manchester City Club, from King to Wali……..

GCC Summit: a Salafi Tribal Dream Team, Taqiyya and a Real Existential Threat......

WTF: Bahrain and UAE Truly Concerned about WMD…………..

Hormuz: Controversial Islands in the Gulf………

Dhahi Khalfan of the UAE: a Big Mouth or a Pop-Strategist or a Gulf Nutcase?………

Gulf Party Poopers: UAE Rulers Seek to Stifle Internet, MullahNet and ShaikhNet………..

UAE Arbitrary Expulsions of Lebanese Families, Beating Joe McCarthy in the GCC.……..

Strait of Hormuz: a Visit to an Island for Lease, Liberation of Iran……

Strait of Hormuz: a Visit to an Island for Lease, Liberation of Iran……

Shaikhs of Abu Dhabi: Revoke Citizenship of Activists, then Prison…………

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

On Qaradawi, the UAE, Syrians, and Qatari Border Tribes ……..

UAE Awards itself an Oscar, Credit for the iPad and Twitter Next………………..

Dubai Claims Second Virgin Birth in History, no Manger no Magi ………..

Casablanca in Abu Dhabi: Kiss of Death in UAE, of Potentates and Cheeks………

Map of Hormuz: Gulf of CENTCOM………….

Medieval Nuclear: the Not So Secret Saudi Nuclear Arsenal………….

Disgruntled Bins of a Feather: UAE in the Footsteps of Bahrain?.............

Funning about the Princes and the Muftis: Obama for Crown Prince or Jordanian Gauleiter……………

Gulf of Taliban: Lawlessness and Misogyny in the UAE and Other Wild Places …………

On Iranian Crude, Oil Markets, and Leaky Principled EU Sanctions………….

UAE Leader Visits Bahrain, Meets many Ethnically Clean Bin Technocrats…….

JDAM for UAE = Iran Building Deeper Nuclear Sites, Hillary Disturbed at State………..

Creativity in a Theocracy: One Iranian Film on its Way to the Oscars………….

Freudian Arabian Size Insecurity? Duel of the Gulf Towers……..

One al-Nahayan Space Program: Huge Wagon, Four Bedrooms, Four…………

UAE Gets THAAD for Petro-Money, Shaikhs Get Commissions, about Those Mercenaries……..

Big Banana Bins of the UAE: Asinus Asinum Fricat.............

UAE: Harsh Crackdown on Academics, about those Mercenaries………….

Mercenaries: Blackwater to Xe to ACADEMI to the Potentates of UAE………….

RQ-170 Drone: Can Iranians Decipher its Secrets?...........

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

“Avatar” of Arabia: Private Contractors in Iraq, Humorless Mercenaries in Bahrain and the UAE, Mother of all Embassies ………….

Rommel of Arabia in Yemen, the Vast Shi’a Conspiracy to Conquer Abu Dhabi and the World………….

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

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

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

Heading to the Persian Gulf: Yates & Timoney, vandenHeuvel & Cheney, Mexican Killers, Jordanian Goons……

Saudis in Denial: Expanded GCC? What Expanded GCC?.........

UAE and Trotsky and Shakhboot: A Simple Sensible Emirati Solution for Arab and World Unrest………….

Al-Nahayan Democracy: UAE Kangaroo Court Imprisons Academics for Talking Reform………

Big Bad Iranian Wolf: Airlines Under Siege, Merkel’s Wings, Air Force One Next?...........

UAE: the New al-Nahayan Technocracy……………..

Israel more Middle Eastern, more Arab League, more GCC........

Chutzpah of the Arab League: Saudis and Bahrainis and Emiratis Monitoring Syrian Human Rights……..

From Libya to Syria and Yemen and the Gulf: No-Fly Zones, No Freedom Zones………….

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

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

Former Shaikh of Bahrain in Egypt, Marshal Rommel Tantawi……………

Emirati Lady saves Saudi Man in Distress: Shaikha and Faisal and the Executioner’s Sword………….

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

Kim Kardashian Invades UAE: a GCC Invitation? About Snooki of Arabia………….

The Dubai Metro: Possibly Mayhaps a Pleasant Surprise…………..

UAE in Photos: Northern Emiratis in London………….

My Gulf: Weapons, Satellites, a Regatta of Destroyers....

Republicans in U.S. Congress Plagiarizing Salafi and UAE Laws? Amsterdam.............

Republicans in U.S. Congress Plagiarizing Salafi and UAE Laws? Amsterdam.............

Is it Possible to Insult the UAE Potentates?…….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dubai General Sees Israel Behind Egyptian Uprising, not Global Warming, Market Crash………….

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

Britain: Cameron Wants American Police Chief, what about Blackwater and UAE?.............

Sectarianism and Terrorism: Pakistan and Two Distant Neighbors………

British Unrest: will Cameron Ban the Burq’a, Block Twitter, and Seek Gulf Mercenary Help?...........

UAE Mercenary Legion to Patrol Libyan Cities?.........

The Suspiciously Lusty Ramadan Ghosts of Dubai……..

Ramadan on the Gulf: Potentates Potentate-ing, Shaikh-ing it………….

Saudi Arabia: a Political Statement or a Twenty Billion Dollar Phallic Symbol………..

UAE: Lawyers Pledge for Sweet Rulers, Blast Activists, Ignore Mercenaries………

Fighting Women of Abu Dhabi, Fighting Men of Colombia and Australia and Ciudad Juarez………

Abu Dhabi: Kangaroo Courts of the UAE………….

UAE: Hooker Sentenced for one Word of Trespassing………..

Islamic Kosher: How Pious Animals make Halal Slaughter Easier………….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lethal Burj Khalifa: Little Men Jumping to their Death in Dubai………….

More on the UAE Blackwater Mercenary Army.......

Woodstock in Abu Dhabi: Kumbaya and a Love-Fest on the Gulf………

Peninsula Mercenaries, Peninsula Foreign Legion, UAE……..

United Arab Emirates, NYU , University of Sorbonne, Louvre, Guggenheim, Money, Lots of it…………

UAE: a Tribal State of the Union………

The Abu Dhabi Empire Extends to Pakistan?..............

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