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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,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Middle East’s new donors: rogues or team players?Turkey and the Gulf monarchies in their savvy, if reactionary, use of aid have become important players in the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaYou've kept your power, Arab rulers, but at what cost?Let us never forget that those who make peaceful uprisings impossible will eventually make violent revolution irresistible.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaNot a Saudi ‘Arab spring’: Mohammad Bin Salman, a threat not a reformer [Part 2]Mohammad bin Salman is now MENA’s main threat to peace, stability, and hope for democratization in the Arab world.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWestern complicity is fuelling Yemen’s humanitarian crisisA besieged and starved population has been pushed to the brink of famine. The UK, US and France need to re-evaluate...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaNot a Saudi ‘Arab spring’: Mohammad Bin Salman, a threat not a reformer [Part 1]Putting “Mohammad bin Salman” next to “Arab Spring” is either an oxymoron or an antithesis.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWill Iraq’s PM embrace a Trump-inspired Saudi-sponsored drive to curb Iranian influence?Trump-MBS strategy has not made significant headway. Will they succeed in escalating anti-Shia confrontation against...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
