12/03/2010
KUNA: Bahrain strongly condemned Thursday Israeli decision to build 1,600 settlements in East Jerusalem describing the move as a breach of all international conventions and resolutions.
12/03/2010
The Peninsula: Qatar will soon appoint the first woman judge in the country, in a move that comes as part of efforts to empower Qatari women to occupy all leading positions.
12/03/2010
Arab News: A Georgian has become the first woman ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
Yekaterina Mayering-Mikadze, who presented a copy of her credentials to Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal, is the current Georgian ambassador to Kuwait. She also represents her country in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and the UAE.
12/03/2010
Khaleej Times: Bilateral cooperation between India and the United Arab Emirates stayed high on the agenda of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and the Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, when the two leaders met here officially
on Thursday.
Adnan Ahmed Ramahi - 29/05/2009
Gulf states battling to attract settlers
French President Sarkozy, the opening of the first naval base, a permanent French military presence in the Arabian Gulf, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, and it will not be the first French military bases in the Gulf, but also the only outside Africa, and the rooms will open the UAE's sovereignty permanent military base in a strategic location near the Strait of Hormuz and will include those
By Katya Adler - 08/04/2009
www.bbc.co.uk This was my first visit to Qatar and I admit I failed in one of my main missions, to get under the skin of the country.
On Qatar Airways, I met Filipino cabin crew.
The airport ground staff were Pakistani, the hotel receptionist, Sri Lankan, the barista who made my cappuccino on the way to the Arab Summit, Nepali.
By Simeon Kerr in Dubai - 10/02/2009
www.ft.com Growth in Arab Gulf states will almost halve in 2009 on lower than expected oil prices amid the gloomiest global economic outlook in more than half a century, according to the IMF.
By Mark Trevelyan - 18/04/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Gulf states believe Israel will destroy Iran's nuclear programme rather than allow it to acquire an atomic bomb, an adviser to the Kuwaiti government and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said on Tuesday.
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11/03/2010
Destined for Peace or Failure?
Paddy Docherty* Author of Khyber Pass, History of empire & Invasion
Robin Yasin-Kassab** The author of The Road to Damascus
Wednesday 9th March,2010
Paddy Docherty:
Mr Docherty showed slides from his travels in Afghanistan.
11/02/2010
The example of Bahrain
Joe Stork, Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division
Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, a consultant with Human Rights Watch and Senior Attorney in the New York office of Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Tuesday 9th February
18/01/2010
Open Discussions
in conjunction with
Gulf Cultural Club
invites you to a discussion entitled
Iran: internal and external challenges
Speakers: Ahmad Kamali*, Afshin Ratansi** and Mustafa G. Abbas***
Date: Wednesday, 27th January 2010
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Abrar House, 45 Crawford Place. W1H 4LP
Nearest Station: Edgware Road
18/12/2009
Gabriele vom Bruck
F o r e w o r d b y F r e d H a l l i d a y
Cover design by Eugene Kuo
Cover photograph Muhammad b. Muhammad Zabarah,
historian (right), and his son Ahmad, the late Mufti of
the Republic of Yemen, 1940s.
middle eastern studies
“This highly original book offers fresh insight into how traditional ideas of person, society, and responsibility, reworked in the cauldron of revolution and rapidly changing economic and political conditions, remain central to understanding contemporary society and identity politics.
23/06/2009
Life of the Ayatollah
AUTHOR: Baqer Moin
This is a new edition of the bestselling biography of the Iranian leader who influenced the current global Islamic revival.When the Ayatollah Khomeini burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s, radical Islam became a factor of political life that would change the world. And with the Iranian Revolution that Khomeini led in 1978/79, religion once more moved centre stage in world politics.
05/05/2009
Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has been undergoing a monumental crisis. Buffeted by powerful adverse currents, Islamic civilization today is a shadow of its former self.
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