Maids in the Middle East – Little Better than Slavery
(The Economist, September 4 2010) AS a maid working in Saudi Arabia, Lahanda Purage Ariyawathie suffered at the hands of her Saudi employer and his wife, who skewered her body with at least 24 nails...
View ArticleSOAS Conference – Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiography
17 September 2010 Aga Khan University – Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, 210 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA Jointly organised by the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga...
View ArticleChristians in the Middle East –“With us or against us?”
(al-Hayat, November 24, 2010) قبل أن استطرد في ثنايا العنوان الاستفزازي أعلاه، سأسوق الحكاية التالية حين كنت طالباً في المرحلة الإبتدائية في إحدى مدارس مدينتي (الرياض)، كانت لكل طالبين طاولة (ماصة)...
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Erdogan in Beirut – We need a Middle Eastern Schengen area
(The Daily Star, November 26, 2010) Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the Arab states to create a zone resembling Europe’s Schengen area. Speaking at the award giving ceremony held...
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Obama and the Middle East: hard times to be a realist
(Mattia Toaldo* per Aspenia). The Obama Middle East policy could be best interpreted by looking at the “new realism” of the last two years of the Bush presidency. The shift away from “transformative...
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