BOOK REVIEW Dr. Davidson’s brilliant and brave “After the Sheikhs” provides Middle East studies with a valuable overview of the gathering crisis in the region, and is a valuable counter-narrative to the “nothing to see, move on now” narrative being promoted by vested interests and an academe that ought to know better. After Bahrain, the … Continue reading
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Open Letter to UK FCO Minister Lord Howell on Bahrain and the “Arab Spring”
Saturday, 18th August 2012 Dear Lord Howell, In the light of last week’s jailing of Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, and last nights killing of 16 year-old protester Hussam Al Haddad, I write to you to request clarification of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office position on Bahrain the “Arab Spring”. In particular, I request … Continue reading
A gloomy LSE report on the “Arab Spring”: if real change is to happen, is Bahrain key?
As a percentage of population the Bahrain pro-democracy demonstrations have been the best attended of all demonstrations in the Arab World 2011-2012: the key to the success of failure of the “Arab Spring” is in Bahrain and beyond Bahrain, Saudi…. Perhaps a gloomy report on the “Arab Spring” from a recent report from the London … Continue reading
Mrs. Miranda Diboll’s Letter to Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja
Here’s my wife’s letter to Abdulhadi: http://www.scribd.com/doc/90503395/Mr-Abdulhadi-Al-Khawaja-Letter
(Bahrain) Formula 1: an irrelevance?
Wednesday 18th April The 2012 Bahrain Formula 1 Grand Prix continues to generate controversy. There are three basic positions on the race, to which I’ll add a fourth: The race is good for Bahrain, bringing in money and uniting the country The race legitimises a repressive regime that has lost legitimacy in the eyes of … Continue reading
John Yates: policing Arab apartheid
“The Arab Spring Never Happened”: how Bahrain is showing the world has moved on from Baudrillard
“It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.” Jean Buardrillard. Jean Baudrillard in 2006, a year before his death aged 77 The “Arab Spring” that never happened? Bahrain’s “revolution of dignity”, March 2012: youths revel in the fresh air of liberation, the question of identity is … Continue reading
The Rape of Bahrain Polytechnic
In a gesture of insult to the international higher education community, the Bahrain regime has chosen the anniversary of the University of Bahrain violence to complete its violation of Bahrain Polytechnic, established in 2008 when the Bahrain 2030 Vision still meant something to supply the kind of quality higher education that the criminally incompetent University … Continue reading
Updated everyday, Bahrain images as a counter to PR and Propaganda….
I’ll be updating this post on a day-by-day basis with translated images, cartoons, and photographs, to show the world a different view of Bahrain from that supplied by Bahrain “government” propaganda, and the best efforst of PR agencies like Qorvis…. Loss of legitimacy: a “police” station as a torture chamber and pirates’ lair; how most … Continue reading
Otokar aren’t helping Justice and Development in Bahrain (Adalet ve Kalkınma), write to protest!
The Bahrain ‘police’ play with their latest toys on 14th February 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGn1a59iSv8 These are Turkish-built Otokar Cobras, a light armoured car assembled using an American HUMVEE engine and drive-chain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otokar_Cobra The Cobra is a cheap machine, supplied to forces in such as those of Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Caucasian CIS republics. It’s chief advantage … Continue reading
