From Pravda , 29.08.2012
By Felix Imonti
Saudi Arabia has gone on the offensive against Iran to protect its interests. Read more »
From Pravda , 29.08.2012
By Felix Imonti
Saudi Arabia has gone on the offensive against Iran to protect its interests. Read more »
By AARON DAVID MILLER
Foreign policy, including the use of military power, isn’t an end in itself. It consists of tools and instruments designed to achieve specific and hopefully well-thought-out ends. Those ends — let’s call them interests — are theoretically supposed to drive a country’s foreign-policy strategy. Sounds pretty simple, right? Read more »
How the Kingdom is Wielding Influence Across the Middle East
John R. Bradley is the author of Saudi Arabia Exposed. His most recent book, After the Arab Spring: How the Islamists Hijacked the Middle East Revolt, will be published in December. Read more »
Saudi-Iran tensions could spell more trouble for Pakistan
According to the Guardian (June 29), Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former Saudi intelligence chief and ambassador to Washington, has raised the spectre of nuclear conflict in the Middle East if Irancomes close to developing a nuclear weapon. Read more »
The photo that caused raucous in the United States: at the G20 Summit, President Obama bowed before the Saudi King and kissed his hand. Read more »
I had no idea that Ayaz Amir was capable of writing such a shallow analysis until I read his column titled “The Long Sulk” in the News International of June 17, 2010. Read more »
Israel has relied on Egypt’s help to police the border with Gaza, above in 2006, but Egypt says it is planning to end its blockade.
From DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
CAIRO — Egypt is charting a new course in its foreign policy that has already begun shaking up the established order in the Middle East, planning to open the blockaded border with Gaza Read more »
From the Financial Times , By Abeer Allam in Riyadh
Demonstrators staged a rare rally after Friday prayers in Riyadh, marking the first such protest in the Saudi capital, as the kingdom braced itself for an Egypt-inspired “Friday of Rage” next week. Read more »
Huffington Post
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Al Jazeera is gaining more prominence in the U.S. because it offers “real news” — something she said American media were falling far short of doing. Read more »
Egypt’s youth-led popular uprising shows change across the region need not be Islamist but has dealt a blow to the west and undercut leaders’ pursuit of lifetime power
By Roula Khalaf
Published: February 4 2011 Read more »
From Bloomberg
The regime model that kept Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in power for 23 years is shared by many of the region’s rulers, exacerbating their discomfort at his violent ouster last week.
The rising living standards Ben Ali delivered helped offset resentment at his family’s wealth and his habit of throwing critics in jail, Read more »