Archive for the 'Politics' Category
A critique of the typical media analysis of Yemen
Monday, September 14th, 2009http://www.alarabiya.net/views/2009/09/12/84723.html
Is Yemen Really A Centralized State?
Brian O’Neill
Three separate crises – the newly intense Huthi rebellion in Yemen’s north, an increasingly violent secession movement in the south, and the pervasive threat of the second generation of Al-Qaeda – are tearing Yemen apart. Moreover, Yemen has to deal with these crises against the backdrop of a […]
Iran and Israel
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009A well-written and nuanced article dealing with the historical dynamic that led to the current relations between Iran and Israel from Conflicts Forum
Imagined affinities, imagined enmities: The strange tale of Iran and Israel
By Alastair Crooke, Le Monde diplomatique, February, 2009
The early Zionists never believed they would be accepted in the Arab world and pinned their […]
The hypocricy over the Georgia debacle
Thursday, August 28th, 2008Although Russia is showing scary tendencies in its new and aggressive foreign policy, the American and European outcry that followed the Russian intervention in Georgia and the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, is hypocritical to the extreme.
First of all, what took place was that the president of Georgia chose to use force of […]
Yemen’s Houthi rebellion and Bani Hushaish: what’s really going on?
Monday, June 16th, 2008Since 2004 the Yemeni government have fought several wars in Yemen’s northernmost governorate Sa’da against a movement calling itself The Believing Youth, mostly known as ‘The Houthis’ after its late founder Badr ad-Din al-Houthi. According to the government, the movement is aiming to re-establish the Shia-Zaydi imamate that ruled Yemen until the republican revolution of […]
Yemen’s Failing Democracy
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Another article written by me and published in the brand new magazine ‘The Arab‘, this time about the political crises in Yemen.
Click HERE to read.
An Iran on the Mediterranean?
Friday, May 23rd, 2008I wrote a reply to a friend of mine about Lebanon and figured I might as well publish an edited version here. My issues, as always, comes from how Lebanon’s problems (that is to say the government and the opposition) are portrayed in the media. From here it all looks very simple: The freely-elected and […]