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The phone call to the family lasted just one minute. It came 23 months after aid worker Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan had been arrested at the offices of the Red Crescent...
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21 May marked UNESCO's World Day for Cultural Diversity and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a heavy contributor of UNESCO, released a beautifully shot and edited one-minute video that...
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On 4 May last year, an Emirati woman died in Abu Dhabi's Tawam Hospital. Her name was Alia Abdulnoor. She died chained to a bed in a windowless room...
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Although the British media made little of it, the 21 January meeting at 10 Downing Street between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi was a...
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"For five months I had to live with very little food and no salary. My family was really affected. Tears come to my eyes when I remember where we...
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Jared Kushner and Benjamin Netanyahu must have considered it the longest of long shots but what if the Palestinians by some wild stretch of the imagination had called their...
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In early May Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and the lead architect of the so-called "deal of the century" gave a lengthy interview to Robert Satloff, the executive director...
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On 2 May Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, was playing his cards very close to the chest at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a...
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On 27 March, 11 Saudi women return to court, among them some of the kingdom's best known women's rights activists including Aziza Al-Yousef, Loujain Al-Hathloul, Eman Al-Nafjan and Hatoon...
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With Human Rights Watch releasing a statement on 21 March on behalf of Saudi women activists brought to court in Riyadh a week earlier, world attention remains focused, and...
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The latest data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on global arms sales, released on 11 March, is a sobering acknowledgement that the Middle East and, in...
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As the world's media has once again picked up on the story of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman's involvement in the brutal murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi,...
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On 28 January, Bahrain's Supreme Court upheld the conviction and life sentence of Sheikh Ali Salman, the leader of the banned opposition Al-Wefaq party. He, along with two colleagues...
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It is a shocking two minutes and fifty-five seconds of audio that was smuggled out of Abu Dhabi's Al Wathba prison. In the audio, a young female prisoner –...
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Back in September, before the disappearance and murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul on 2 October, I came across a story...
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If I was the Washington Post's Ishaan Tharoor I would be a trifle annoyed. I enjoy his "Today's World View" column on a daily basis. He is a very...
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Last week, exactly 25 years after the signing of the Oslo Peace Accord, Jared Kushner commented on the punitive measures that his father-in-law, the President of the United States,...
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The warning signs are clear and unmistakable: the Kingdom of Bahrain is in serious financial difficulty and its economy is tumbling into crisis. The country's bond ratings are listed...
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On 4 June this year the Bahrain High Criminal Court of Appeal upheld a five-year sentence handed out to the prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab for tweets he...
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Writing in the New York Times less than a week after 61 Palestinians had been shot dead by Israeli soldiers, and nearly 3,000 were wounded, the political editor of...
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Khalil Al-Marzook, a senior leader in Bahrain's main opposition party Al-Wefaq, didn't pull any punches when he was asked about the way the west is responding to the Bahraini...