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Gulf States
Money & Resistance: How “Moderate” Arab States Sold Out the Palestinian Cause
Yazan al-Saadi* | 20 May 2013
Qatar’s Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (R) attends the opening of the Arab League summit in Doha on March 26, 2013. When it comes to confronting the Israeli government’s actions against the Palestinian people, a massive divide exists between Arab rulers and the general Arab public. Currently, nearly all Arab governments are willing to normalize relations...Photo Essay: The Work of Shurooq Amin
Muftah Editors | 30 Apr 2013
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Bayan Perazzo* | 9 Apr 2013
Source: http://susiesbigadventure.blogspot.com A few days ago a controversy arose on Twitter over an article published by Your Middle East arguing that Saudi women were “not quite ready” for the right to drive. A number of bloggers, activists, and journalists quickly condemned the piece as sexist and racist. Just hours after the article’s publication, Your...Saudi Arabia: On Losing Control in Qatif and Qassim
Bayan Perazzo* | 7 Mar 2013
Saudi police surround protestors in Buraida, February 2013. (Shared by @e3teqal on twitter) Until recently, the Eastern province city of Qatif was the only Saudi Arabian city to experience regular protests since the Arab Spring erupted over two years ago. Beginning in February 2011, demonstrations in Qatif called for basic rights of citizenship and the release...Sectarianism & Revolution in Bahrain & Syria
Sarah Kanbar* | 18 Jan 2013
February 2011 marked the outbreak of protests in Bahrain, and the slow start of demonstrations in Syria. Despite the complex internal dynamics in these countries, the ruling regimes have largely written off these revolutions as “sectarian” in nature. The Bahraini government has influenced media coverage and pushed a narrative blaming discontent on a supposed...Seeking Editors for Muftah’s Yemen and Gulf States Pages
Muftah Editors | 17 May 2013
EDITORIAL OPENINGS Muftah.org is currently seeking co-editors for its Yemen and Gulf States pages. Responsibilities include generating submissions, editing articles, and writing a weekly blog post for the magazine....Democracy in Qatar?: The Role of the Qatari People in Domestic and Foreign Policy
David B. Roberts* | 23 Apr 2013
Digital rendering of Qatar’s Education City (Source: http://www.aedas.com/Imaging/Education-City) It is no secret that Qatar is not a democracy. While municipal officials have been elected since 1999, increasingly...Popcornographic: In My Own Words
Shurooq Amin* | 27 Mar 2013
Shurooq Amin’s “Of Wives and Men” addresses the controversial practice of child marriage, still prevalent in many societies around the world, 2012. In 2012, my exhibit, “It’s a Man’s World,”...U.S. Foreign Policy in Bahrain Two Years after the Uprising
Husain Abdulla* | 14 Feb 2013
Bahraini women wave the Bahraini flag and shout anti-government slogans during a rally held by the Wefaq opposition party, in the village of Boori, south of Manama, 14 October 2011, to mark the 8-month anniversary...The Cultural & Religious Debates on HIV/AIDS in the Muslim World
Dominic Bocci* | 15 Jan 2013
(Photo credit: Andy McCarthy UK on Flickr, under Creative Commons) On December 8, 2012, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) hosted a Red Gala Dinner at the Fairmont Hotel in Cairo, Egypt to raise...
