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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAfter Khashoggi: how diplomatic space became a crime sceneIn a world where autocratic regimes are on the rise worldwide, a criminal turn of diplomatic missions may be underway.
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Published in: HomeDismal failure of Saudi defences may entangle US just where Iran wants itLong-term political consequences could be even more serious for the US and its allies than the uselessness of their...
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Published in: HomeSaudi oil plant attack shows how fast warfare by the weak is changingAll the billions Saudi Arabia has spent on military hardware, plus a major US and UK military presence, couldn’t...
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Published in: HomeIt will take more than Donald Trump to make Iran submitThe Revolutionary Guards are “Iran’s military-industrial complex”, and Trump’s provocations only make them stronger.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow to lobby Washington to deathA business model from hell and the war in Yemen.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBAE’s evasive justifications for arming Saudi’s Yemen warCampaigners attended the UK arms company’s AGM and asked some tough questions. The answers failed to convince.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSpreading sectarianism in the Muslim worldWhich country carries most responsibility for the spread of sectarianism in the muslim world? Answer: Saudi Arabia
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Published in: HomeMigrant crisis in Europe? Look at YemenJust to be clear, this means that more desperate people crossed the Red Sea into Yemen in 2018 than crossed the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaNow streaming: censorshipHow should companies like Netflix respond when repressive governments order the removal of critical content?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDid the US and Britain collude in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi?With Khashoggi’s murder, many secrets that both the Kingdom and its western allies wanted buried, will stay that way.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow Britain is a bad influence on the Gulf states – an interview with David WearingCould Britain ever promote democracy in the Gulf? Only if it turns its own foreign policy away from neoliberalism...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPolitics “as if” in RiyadhSaudi Arabia first denied the Khashoggi murder and then blamed it on rogue security agents. Neither version has...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFamine in Yemen: long announced, now on our screensWhat are world leaders doing? Where is the ‘international community’ Yemenis so often appeal to?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Natural History Museum has been used by the Saudi regimeAt a time when the Saudis are intensifying their crackdown on human rights, yesterday’s reception gave all the wrong...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe West’s approach to Saudi Arabia: ‘one step forward, two steps back’Western powers are actively enabling the very human rights violations they seek to expose.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritain’s warfare stateBritain needs an industrial strategy. At the same time, Britain needs to move away from its imperial pretensions to...
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Published in: 50.50Arrests of women’s rights activists put Saudi Arabia on the wrong side of historyFrom Indonesia to Saudi Arabia, Muslim women’s movements for equality are increasingly interconnected – and unstoppable.
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Published in: HomeGassing and selective applications of a ‘Red Line’: lest we forgetThe gassing of people is considered exceptionally inhumane, officially a categorical “red line” dividing good from...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWretched third anniversary of international intervention in Yemen: the Saudi-led coalition and humanitarian disaster. Part 2Trump’s recent senior appointments suggest an increasingly virulent anti-Iranian strategy which certainly coincides...
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Published in: HomeFear of forgetting – heroines who changed historySimone De Beauvoir and Gisele Halimi were indefatigable. They wrote to every responsible official in the judiciary,...
