Raymond Barrett

Raymond Barrett writes regularly on Middle East affairs for Ireland's Sunday Business Post. He has also written for The Christian Science Monitor.

Kuwaits shifting tides

On 29 June 2006, the people of Kuwait went to the polls to elect fifty deputies to sit in the country's Majlis al-Ummah (national assembly). What made this

By Raymond Barrett

/ 4 Jul 2006

Kuwait's political turmoil

The dismissal of Kuwait's parliament on 21 May 2006 by the country's emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, brought an abrupt end to an unusually stormy week

By Raymond Barrett

/ 30 May 2006

Iran through Arab eyes

Since the 1979 overthrow of the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Islamic Republic of Iran has had a fractious relationship with other countries in the middle east. Twenty-seven years on,

By Raymond Barrett

/ 9 May 2006

Raymond Barrett

Kuwait&#146;s shifting tides

Kuwait's political turmoil

Iran through Arab eyes

Kuwaits shifting tides