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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...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe return of authoritarianism is priming the Middle East for more conflictHow is the Saudi-Iranian rivalry overwriting the Arab Spring’s key messages?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaKurds’ choices: heed history or the US?Who controls Syria’s borders? The US and Israel are encouraging Syrian Kurds to fight the regime and its allies for...
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Published in: HomeSafe spaces, bagpipes and houmous“This is the safe space I was talking about… a totally open space people can feel safe in, because stories are...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAll ‘hail’ the real kingThe Saudi Monarch’s 4 November purge threatens the kingdom’s longstanding policy on dynastic rule, and paves the way...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaContagion effect and the Saudi grand game in the Middle EastThe willingness of Mohammed bin Salman to embark on a series of moves against Iranian power in the Middle East...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Prince: on how many fronts can Mohammad bin Salman act simultaneously?The Saudi crown prince moves towards concentrating absolute power in his own hands, while escalating tensions on...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe anti-Islamist campaign and Arab democracyEgyptians, Libyans, Tunisians, and other Arabs deserve better than to be told that they must choose between...
