Middle East
Listening to Bashar al-Assad
In this posting, I want to take a look at a Dutch TV interview with Syria's Bashar al-Assad, an interview that received very little coverage ……Read More
Middle East
Middle East
How Saudi Arabia Controls Its Own Media Coverage
With Saudi Arabia making headline news once again, I thought it was a great time to take a look at the WikiLeaks Saudi Cables release ……Read More
Middle East
Selling Arms to the Saudi Royal Family
With Saudi Arabia in the thick of the current unrest in the Middle East, it is interesting to see how much weaponry the United States ……Read More
Middle East
The “New and Improved” Middle East
With the massive amount of attention paid to the Middle East and the Islamic world in 2015, I thought it would be prudent to take ……Read More
Middle East
Saudi Arabia and Yemen Slipping Under the World’s Radar
While the world focuses on the ongoing civil war in Syria, another war continues unabated. This war, between Saudi Arabia and Yemen has more-or-less slipped ……Read More
Middle East
Polling Syrians and Iraqis – What They Want and Who They Trust
While Syria and Iraq have been headline news in the mainstream and not-so-mainstream media for months, we rarely get any information about how Syrians and ……Read More