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Tag Archives: Bahrain
Operation X
Almost two months since the U.S. started bombing Islamic State (IS) targets in Iraq, less than a week since the U.S.-led offensive in Syria for the same purpose, and the operation appears to be nameless.
Posted in Arab World, Iraq, Middle East, Syria, United States
Tagged Bahrain, Daesh, Iraq, IS, ISIS, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic State, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State of Syria and Iraq, Jordan, Operation X, Qatar, Raqqa, Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE, United Arab Emirates, United States
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Human Rights Watch on the Children of Bahrain
We live in a world where violence has become common place, suffering a regular feeling we have learned to cope with and the dead just one more number. Or maybe this is the world that the Middle East and Arab … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Revolution, Arab World, Bahrain, Gulf, Human Rights Watch
Tagged Arab world, Bahrain, Children, Gulf States, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Iraq, Middle East, Syria
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The Sheikhs Get Down to Business
In what came as a rather unexpected move, member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) listed Hezballah on their never-heard-of-before list of terrorist organizations for its involvement in Syria alongside the Assad regime, while threatening to take action against … Continue reading
Posted in Arab World, Foreign Policy, GCC, Hezballah, Lebanon, Middle East, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria
Tagged Arab world, Bahrain, GCC, Gulf States, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezballah, Lebanon, Qusayr, Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE
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Words of Defiance: The Courage to Say Them, The Challenge to See them Through
If acts of defiance are what spark a revolution, then words of defiance are the fuel that keep it going. For it was the words of the Arab Revolutions, expressions long-buried under the heaviness of oppression and the cloak of … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Revolution, Arab World
Tagged Arab Revolution, Arab world, Bahrain, Egypt, Syria, Tunisia
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