Middle East

Greetings from dissertation-land. I’ve tried my best to keep my head down over the past few weeks, hence the long spell between posts. Since the ……Read More

The ongoing uprising in Syria has been front page news in most online newspapers for the past few weeks.  What most readers don’t realize is that ……Read More

Following his inaugural visit to India, Mayor Frank Scarpitti continued to Dubai where he spent two days with a 10-member business delegation to promote business ……Read More

Dissident Iranian blogger, publisher and physician Mahdi Khazali, has been sentenced to fourteen years in prison, exile and flogging. According to the BBC’s Persian service, ……Read More

New low for IRGC  Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps recently took the family member of a BBC employee hostage in order to force her to take ……Read More

Ahead of house arrest anniversary The Nobel Women’s Initiative on Wednesday called for the “unconditional release” of the leaders of Iran’s opposition Green Movement Mir ……Read More