EPA photo By Ahmed Tharwat Lots of debate and media coverage preceded and followed President Trump’s visit to the Saudi kingdom. Anxieties and expectations filled the air. Trump, who has been behaving like a royal frat boy all his life, was visiting Saudi royalty in his first official overseas visit.
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What is rude for most Arabs…is not Trump’s handshake
May 23rd, 2017 
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No Comments »Back to Realpolitik: Trump in Saudi Arabia
May 22nd, 2017 Administrator AP photo By Binoy Kampmark “You are a unique personality that is capable of doing the impossible.” President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to President Donald Trump, New York Times, May 21, 2017
Posted in OPINION Tags: arms deal, Binoy Kampmark, Donald Trump, James Comey, Middle East, Opinion, Politics, President Trump, Saudi Arabia, United States No Comments »Trump, the Islamic Alliance and Pakistan
May 22nd, 2017 Administrator Reuters photo By Imad Zafar Change is the only law of nature that is and will always be constant. Civilizations can never be made stagnant nor can they be imprisoned in a certain period or specific time. Ideologies and patterns of thinking in civilizations always change with the shift in balance of power.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Afghanistan, Bashar al-Assad, China, CPEC, foreign policiy, Gwadar port, Imad Zafar, Iran, Muslim, Muslim Ummah, Opinion, Pakistan, Politics, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Society, Syria, United States No Comments »The New American-Saudi-Muslim Alliance
May 22nd, 2017 Administrator Reuters photo By Sami Jamil Jadallah As the ‘mainstream media’ besieged President Donald Trump’s touchdown in Riyadh on his first international trip where he was expected to receive a lavish and unprecedented reception by Saudi officials to attend a busy two day summit with Saudis, GCC leaders and heads of states from the Islamic […]
Posted in OPINION Tags: 9/11, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Afghanistan, Algeria, arms deal, Ayman-al Zawahiri, Daseh, Donald Trump, Egypt, Foreign Policy, GCC, Gulf Cooperation Council, Gulf War, International relations, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Islamophobia, Jared Kushner, Jordan, Libya, Middle East, Mujahideen, Muslim, Obama, Oil, Omar Abdel-Rahman, Opinion, Osama Bin Laden, Paul Bremer, peace, Politics, President Trump, Russia, Saddam Hussein, Sami Jamil Jadallah, Saudi Arabia, Sunni Muslim, Syria, Terrorism, United States, US-Saudi relations, Yemen 1 Comment »Global executions down more than a third, but death sentences at record high
April 12th, 2017 Administrator By Amnesty International The number of executions around the world last year fell by more than a third compared to the previous year, human rights NGO Amnesty International stated, with 1,032 executions in 23 countries in 2016 compared to 1,634 in 25 countries in 2015.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Amnesty International, Bangladesh, China, crime, Death Penalty, Death sentence, Executions, Human Rights, Iran, Iraq, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Vietnam No Comments »The Saudi war on Yemen enters its third year
March 27th, 2017 Administrator Khaled Abdullah/Reuters By Rupen Savoulian This month marks two full years since the start of the Saudi-led, US-supported war on Yemen. As this war completes two years, involving a blockade of Yemen and the consequent collapse of the nation’s economy, the prospect of famine is now appearing very real.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, Al Qaeda, Ali Adullah Saleh, Antipodean Atheist, Anwar al-Awlaki, Apache helicopter gunship, AQAP, Australia, Carryn Owens, conflict, Donald Trump, Famine, Great Britain, Houthis, ICRC, ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra, Malcolm Turnbull, Obama, Opinion, Refugees, Rupen Savoulian, Saudi Arabia, Saudi led coalition, Somalia, Terrorism, United States, US drone attacks, War, William ‘Ryan’ Owens, Yemen No Comments »Behind Enemy Lines
March 20th, 2017 Administrator Reuters photo By Zeeshan A. Shah Over the last few decades Pakistan has gone through a major paradigm shift, both within its strategic placement within the region and with its allies all over the globe.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Af-Pak, Afghanistan, China, Corruption, CPEC, Foreign Policy, Gwadar port, Immigration, India, Indian Ocean Region, Iran, Islamic Republic, legal system, Muslim, nuclear power, Opinion, Pak-Saudi, Pakistan, Politics, proxy war, religion, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Society, South Asia, South Central Asia Region, trade, United States, Zeeshan Shah No Comments »Fresh evidence of cluster bombs being used by Saudi coalition forces in Yemen
March 9th, 2017 Administrator Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters By Amnesty International Human Rights NGO Amnesty International has corroborated new evidence showing that the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition recently fired Brazilian-manufactured rockets containing banned cluster munitions in the middle of Sa’da city in Yemen, injuring two civilians and causing material damage.
Huthi forces recruiting child soldiers for front-line combat in Yemen
March 3rd, 2017 Administrator Reuters photo By Amnesty International New evidence has emerged of how the Huthi armed group is actively recruiting boys as young as 15 to fight as child soldiers on the front lines of the conflict in Yemen, said human rights NGO Amnesty International after speaking to the families of three boys targeted by the […]
Hateful, toxic rhetoric creating a dangerous and divided world
February 22nd, 2017 Administrator Mario Tama/AFP By Amnesty International Politicians using toxic rhetoric, reminiscent of the 1930s, are creating a dangerous and divided world, said human rights NGO Amnesty International as it launched its annual assessment of human rights around the world.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Afghanistan, Aleppo, Amnesty International, annual report, Bangladesh, Berta Cáceres, Boris Johnson, Burma, Burundi, Central African Republic, Central America, China, Darfur, DRC, Dubs Amendment, Duterte, Egypt, Ethiopia, EU, France, freedom of expression, Freedom of Speech, Honduras, Human Rights, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Nigel Farage, Philippines, Referendum, Refugees, Rohingya, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, Trump, Yemen No Comments »Saudi Arabia sentences 15 people to death for ‘spying for Iran’
December 7th, 2016 Administrator AFP photo By Amnesty International ‘The entire legal proceedings in this case have made a mockery of justice’ – Samah Hadid Saudi Arabia’s sentencing of 15 people to death today after a grossly unfair trial is a travesty of justice, said human rights NGO Amnesty International.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Amnesty International, Human Rights, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Shia, Specialised Criminal Court, spying No Comments »United States and Britain enable the catastrophe that has engulfed Yemen today
October 18th, 2016 Administrator Mohammed Huwais/AFP By Rupen Savoulian Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia, along with its Gulf State allies, has pursued a relentless bombing campaign and siege of the nation of Yemen, in order to influence the political order in that country.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi, Aden, airstrikes, Aleppo, Ali Abdullah Saleh, arms sales, bombing, Britain, children, cholera, funeral hall, Gulf State, Houthi-led insurgent movement, Houthis, Human Rights, humanitarian catastrophe, military, Obama, Pentagon, Protest, Riyadh, Rupen Savoulian, Russia, sanctions, Saudi Arabia, Saudi led, Saudi war, United States, War Crimes, weapons, Yemen No Comments »Suing governments over terror no sure thing despite U.S. Sept 11 law
September 30th, 2016 Administrator Mark Kauzlarich/Reuters By Mica Rosenberg Families of Sept. 11 victims and others who may seek to sue foreign governments accused of supporting terrorism in the United States still face significant legal hurdles, despite a boost from passage of a law allowing such cases to proceed.
Posted in OPINION Tags: 9/11, Al Qaeda, Court, Iran, JASTA, jusrice, Mica Rosenberg, Obama, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, suing government, Syria, Terrorism, Thomson Reuters Foundation, United States, veto No Comments »Justice, Security and Rule of Law: Vladimir Putin’s MENA
September 19th, 2016 Administrator Joseph Eid/AFP By Cynthia M. Lardner The Russian Federation is no longer the superpower as that term was defined post-World War II. After the illegal annexation of Crimea and its aggressions in Ukraine, the West suspended Russia’s G8 membership and imposed vast economic sanctions devastating the ruble. By most accounts this left Russia a […]
Posted in OPINION Tags: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Balkans, Bashar al-Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, EEU, Egypt, EU, G20, G8, Germany, ICC, Iran, Israel, Kurds, MENA, NATO, nuclear arms, Palestine, Politics, Putin, Recep Erdogan, Refugees, Russia, S-300, sanctions, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, UNSC, veto, weapons, Yemen No Comments »Arab Brains, Arab $, Why Not?
July 25th, 2016 Administrator Reuters photo By Sami Jamil Jadallah Away from politics for a few minutes. Immediately after Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo Accord with its lucrative contract to manage the Israeli Occupation, there was much excitement among Israeli and Arab capitalists, even among politicians like Shimon Peres, who were dreaming of combining Arab Money with Israeli […]
Posted in OPINION Tags: Arab Brains, Arab Peace Corps, Bill Clinton, Business, Credit Suisse, Economy, Finance, Gulf Arabs, Israel, Israeli Occupation, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Middle East, Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud, New Arab Foundation, Oil, Oslo Accords, Palestine, Politics, Qatar, Sami Jamil Jadallah, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Vision 2030, Shimon Peres, Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, Yaakov Amidror, Yasser Arafat No Comments »Bahrain national reconciliation efforts stalled: US State Dept
June 23rd, 2016 Administrator Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters By Warren Strobel and Yara Bayoumy Bahrain’s efforts to build national reconciliation after it crushed street protests in 2011 have stalled, and the Western ally in the Gulf has not implemented recommendations to protect freedom of expression, including nonviolent dissent, according to a U.S. State Department report obtained by Reuters.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Al Wefaq, Ali Salman, Bahrain, Congress, detainees, Discrimination, freedom of expression, Freedom of Speech, Hezbollah, Human Rights, Independent Commission of Inquiry, International Law, Isa Qassim, John Kerry, Lebanon, Nabeel Rajab, Saudi Arabia, Shiite, Thomas Krajeski, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Tom Malinowski, United Nations, United States, US State Department, Washington No Comments »Oman: a Peaceful Oasis in a Flaming region
May 23rd, 2016 Administrator By Dr. Fadi Elhusseini In a fractious, unstable region rife with conflicts, one country appears to be unscathed. It is telling that Oman emerged not only intact from the ramifications of the Arab Spring, but also shied away from the tense polarisation that has hijacked the rest of the Middle East.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Ali Abdullah Saleh, Amazigh, Arab Spring, Bashar al-Assad, conflict, Decisive Storm, Dr Fadi Elhusseini, Gulf Cooperation Council GCC, Gulf States, Hezbollah, Iran, Islam, Lebanon, Middle East, Muscat, Nimr al-Nimr, Oman, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Shia Houthis, Strait of Hormuz, Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Al-Said, Sunni, Syria, Tehran, Tuck Magazine, Turkey, undersea natural gas pipeline, US-Iran nuclear deal, Yemen, Yusuf Bin Alawi No Comments »UN envoy welcomes Yemen truce, says difficult compromises needed
April 11th, 2016 Administrator REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah By Lou Charbonneau and William Maclean The United Nations special envoy for Yemen welcomed the start of a tentative truce in the country’s year-old conflict on Monday and said peace talks due to start later this month would require difficult compromises for all sides.
Warring Yemen sides begin truce, warn against violations
April 11th, 2016 Administrator REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi By Mohammed Ghobari and Sylvia Westall (Thomson Reuters Foundation) Rival sides in Yemen’s year-long conflict began a tentative truce overnight on Sunday saying they were committed to the halt in hostilities despite pockets of deadly fighting in the hours leading up to it.
Who is behind ISIS?
March 24th, 2016 Administrator By Sattar Rind Is this news not enough for the world to stand up? On Tuesday morning thirty five innocent people were killed at Brussels’ Zaventem Airport and Maelbeek metro station by Islamic extremists in the European Union’s symbolic heart.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Ankara, Brussels attack, Daesh, Gulf Cooperation Council, India, Iraq, IS, ISIL, ISIS, jihadist, Lebanon, Maelbeek, NATO, Pakistan, Salafi, Sattar Rind, Saudi Arabia, Shiite Muslims, Syria, Taliban, Terrorism, Tuck Magazine, Wahhabi, Yemen, Zaventem Airport No Comments »The Middle East: Was the Turkish Model replaced by an Iranian Role?
March 9th, 2016 Administrator By Fadi Elhusseini Since 2003, Turkey has appeared as a valuable asset for global powers to invest in and as a leading actor in a region long described as sluggish towards democratic transformations.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Afghanistan, Algeria, Arab Spring, Bahrain, China, Fadi Elhusseini, Greater Middle East, Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, India, Iran, Iraq, Jihad, Justice and Development Party AKP, Lebanon, Middle East, Nicaragua, Palestine, Politics, Power, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Shiite Muslims, Syria, Tajikistan, Tuck Magazine, Turkey, United States, War, Yemen No Comments »Are we serious in wanting to eliminate ISIS?
March 7th, 2016 Administrator By Sattar Rind Many writers, intellectuals, government or non-governmental think tank personnel and scholars are writing about and discussing the cause of ISIS’ birth.
Posted in OPINION Tags: 9/11, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, al-Nusra front, Ayman-al Zawahiri, Bandar bin Sultan, Benazir Bhutto, Charlie Wilson, China, CIA, Ed Husain, Egypt, eliminate ISIS?, Geneva Accord, George Crile, George W. Bush, Gust Avrakotos, Hamid Gul, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Israel, Jihadists, John McCain, Kabul, Kuwait, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Madrassas, Media, MI6, Middle East, Mujahideen, New York Times, Oil, Operation Cyclone, Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan, Pashto, Politics, Qatar, Richard Dearlove, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Salafi, Sattar Rind, Saudi Arabia, Shiite Muslims, Sunni Muslims, Syria, Taliban, Terrorism, Topak, Tuck Magazine, Turkey, Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, USAID, Wahhabi, Wikileaks 1 Comment »Igniting the situation: World War III
February 15th, 2016 Administrator By Sattar Rind The Syrian issue, it seems, is going to be the cause of World War III. At the very least an explosive move is on the verge of erupting, something that would definitely engulf the rest of the world.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Ahmed Asseri, Ashton Carter, Bahrain, Bashar al-Assad, Dmitry Medvedev, Houthis, ISIS, Islamic Military Alliance (IMA), Mohammad Ali Jafari, Pakistan, Politics, Russia, Sartaj Aziz, Sattar Rind, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Terrorism, Tuck Magazine, Turkey, UAE, Walid al-Muallem, World War III, Yemen No Comments »ISIS in Pakistan
January 26th, 2016 Administrator By Sattar Rind The Pakistani government constantly refuses to admit that ISIS exists in Pakistan, even Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif in a speech once claiming that they will not accept the existence of ISIS in Pakistan.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Abdelhakim Belhadj, Abdul Aziz, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Bacha Khan university, Charsadda, Colonel Gaddafi, Daesh, internally displaced persons (IDPs), Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Lal Masjid, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Libya, Madrassas, Malik Ishaq, Middle East, Mullah Omar, National Action Plan (NAP), Nisar Ali Khan, Operation Zarb-e-Azb, Pakistan, Peshawar, Raheel Sharif, Russia, Sattar Rind, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Taliban, Terrorism, Tuck Magazine, Turkey No Comments »Uganda bans recruitment and deployment of Domestic workers in Saudi Arabia
January 25th, 2016 Administrator By Gloria Nakiyimba Uganda has banned the recruitment and export of domestic workers to Saudi Arabia and other countries.
How to deal with the threat of the Islamic State
January 20th, 2016 Administrator By Philipp Müller In the aftermath of the terror attacks on Paris by the Islamic State (IS) on Friday, 13th November 2015, it has become more important than ever for European policymakers to determine how to deal with the threat posed by the IS. The French president Francois Hollande has announced to wage a ‘pitiless […]
Posted in OPINION Tags: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Alawites, Bashar al-Assad, Bosnia, Europe, European policymakers, France, Francois Hollande, Hezbollah, Holland, Hungary, Immigration, Iraq, IS, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamists, Israel, Kurdistan, Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK, Libya, Mali, Manuel Valls, Middle East, Mosul, Muslim, NATO, North Africa, Obama, Palestine, Paris attack, Philipp Müller, religion, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Schengen area, sharia law, Shiite Muslim, Sinjar, Slovenia, Spain, Sunni, Sweden, Syria, Taliban, Terrorism, Tuck Magazine, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vladimir Putin, Yemen No Comments »Understanding Iran-Pakistan relations
January 12th, 2016 Administrator By Sattar Rind Persian, now Iran’s, history goes back to the Iron Age – the world’s oldest continuous major civilization, with historical and urban settlements dating back to 4000 BC, at least.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Balochistan, Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCC), Iran, Iran-Pakistan relations, Islam, Islam-i-Ajam, Khomeini, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Nimr al-Nimr, Pakistan, Persia, Politics, Sattar Rind, Saudi Arabia, Shiite Muslims, Wahhabi, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto No Comments »Bangladesh condemns attacks on Saudi Embassy in Tehran
January 7th, 2016 Administrator By Sheuli Akter Bangladesh has condemned the recent attacks on the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and its consulate in Mashhad.
Russia is officially in the region: A new Order has just begun
January 6th, 2016 Administrator By Fadi Elhusseini Since the outbreak of the Syrian uprising, Russia has limited itself to its traditional role of providing arms as well as military and logistical experts to its Arab allies.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Angela Merkel, Bashar al-Assad, Ben Ali, China, Egypt, Fadi Elhusseini, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Israel, John Kerry, Middle East, military, Moscow, Mubarak, nuclear, Obama, Palestine, Putin, Qassem Soleimani, Richard N. Haass, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tartus, Terrorism, Tuck Magazine, Tunisia, UAE, Ukraine, Washington No Comments »The 132 small empty beds of Peshawar
January 5th, 2016 Administrator By Anwar Hasan I use distance to cope with anger and sorrow that comes with violence and injustice. It works and I am not ashamed of it.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Anwar Hasan, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Peshawar, Raif Badawi, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Taliban, Terrorism, Tuck Magazine No Comments »
