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Theorizing the Arabian Peninsula Roundtable: Towards a Critical Cartography of the Political in the Arabian Peninsula
[This is one of seven contributions in Jadaliyya's electronic roundtable on the symbolic and material practices of knowledge production on the Arabian Peninsula. Moderated by Rosie Bsheer and John Warner, it features Toby Jones, Madawi Al-Rasheed, Adam Hanieh, Neha Vora, Nathalie Peutz, John Willis, and Ahmed Kanna.] (1) Historically, what have the dominant analytical approaches to the study of the Arabian Peninsula been? How have the difficulties of carrying out research in the Arabian Peninsula shaped the ways in which knowledge is produced for the particular country/ies in which you have worked, and in the field more generally? I must say at the beginning ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (April 16)
![[Thousands of Pakistani laborers leaving Riyadh's Diplomatic Quarter after visit to their embassy on April 13, 2013. Image from Rosie Bsheer's archive.]](/content_images/3/sm_HHH.jpg "[Thousands of Pakistani laborers leaving Riyadh's Diplomatic Quarter after visit to their embassy on April 13, 2013. Image from Rosie Bsheer's archive.]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] Regional and International Relations Saudi Arabia builds giant Yemen border fence A news report on the Saudi regime’s decision to build a 1,800 km fence “to seal off its troubled frontier with Yemen,” on BBC. Qatar offers Egypt $3bn in aid A news report on the Qatari regime’s decision to buy bonds from Egypt worth three ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (March 12)
![[Emirati-Qatari competition intensifies over Suez Canal's privatized assets and development projects. 28 December 2007. Image from ruifipieggio/flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_SuezCanal.jpg "[Emirati-Qatari competition intensifies over Suez Canal's privatized assets and development projects. 28 December 2007. Image from ruifipieggio/flickr]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] Regional and International Relations It’s shameful the way Britain kowtows to the super-rich Ian Jack analyzes the significance of Prince Alwaleed’s outrage at his ranking in Forbes and its statement on the behavior of the super-wealthy, in The Guardian. How can the royals champion women and endorse Saudi? Catherine ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (March 5)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] Regional and International Relations UAE Islamists ‘pledge loyalty to Brotherhood’s leader in Egypt’ Ola Salem reports that members of the Emirati branch of the Muslim Brother still pledge allegiance to the its leader in Egypt even though they promised to discontinue this practice thirteen years ago, on The National. John ...
Keep Reading »Qatar Moving Closer to Algeria?
![[Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, right, speaks with Qatar Emir Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani at his arrival at Algiers airport Wednesday, 18 May 2011. Image by AP Photo/Sidali Djarboub.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2013-03-04at9.55.36AM.png "[Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, right, speaks with Qatar Emir Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani at his arrival at Algiers airport Wednesday, 18 May 2011. Image by AP Photo/Sidali Djarboub.]")
Officially, Emir Hamad visited Algiers on 7 January 2013 to conduct an evaluation of the bilateral cooperation and to sign partnership agreements between the two countries. This visit was struck in a cordial tone between the heads of state, even though real tensions exist between the two countries following two years of frosty relations due to differences regarding the Arab Spring. In this respect, the recent rapprochement between the two states could suggest some shift in the foreign policy of Qatar and Algeria, the first from the perspective ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (February 12)
![[Protesting Drones at Obama's Inauguration. 21 January 2013. Image from flickr/World Can't Wait]](/content_images/3/sm_droneprotest.jpg "[Protesting Drones at Obama's Inauguration. 21 January 2013. Image from flickr/World Can't Wait]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] CIA’s Saudi Airbase Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans Michael Isikoff elaborates on the Justice Department’s “white paper,” a classified document that condones targeted killing of American citizens abroad and the CIA’s use of Saudi airbases, on NBC News. Justice Dept. document ...
Keep Reading »Qatar Leaks: The Business of Foreign Policy
![[Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jaber Al-Thani, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar. 22 October 2011. Image from flickr/Nader Daoud/World Economic Forum]](/content_images/3/sm_althani.jpg "[Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jaber Al-Thani, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar. 22 October 2011. Image from flickr/Nader Daoud/World Economic Forum]")
[This report has been placed on hold until further corroboration emerges]
Keep Reading »Calls to Boycott Qatar and the UAE for Labor Violations
![[Workers in a bus after a day of work in Dubai. Image from Flickr/Eric J Scott]](/content_images/3/sm_3831502576_bed1128e53.jpg "[Workers in a bus after a day of work in Dubai. Image from Flickr/Eric J Scott]")
[The following is a Migrant Rights post on calls to boycott the World Cup in Qatar in 2022 and (possibly) the UAE, if chosen for the 2024 Olympics.] The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) will organize a boycott of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar unless the nation improves migrant worker conditions. The group also plans to boycott the UAE (if selected for the 2024 Olympics) if genuine labor reform is not realized. As both nations will implement intensive labor projects in preparation for these events, ITUC emphasized that laborers must be guaranteed fair pay as well as decent accommodations. Critics have blasted both FIFA and Qatar for the nation’s subpar labor ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (December 25)
![[Image from Flickr/Al Jazeera English]](/content_images/3/sm_5501117477_aa30250f3f_z.jpg "[Image from Flickr/Al Jazeera English]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] Regional and International Relations Britain could deploy more troops to Gulf, says David Cameron Emma Graham-Harrison examines military relations between the United Kingdom and the Gulf countries, in The Guardian. David Cameron visits Oman as BAE announces £2.5bn defence deal – video A media report on Cameron’s visit to ...
Keep Reading »The People Want Reform… In Qatar, Too.
![[Image from Flickr/Doha Sam]](/content_images/3/sm_5370664340_7e5739c14b_z.jpg "[Image from Flickr/Doha Sam]")
[Perspectives Editors’ note: Over the last two years of revolt in the Middle East and North Africa, the Arab Gulf has often been portrayed in the regional and international media as an exception, standing in relative stability outside an “arc of history” struggling towards freedom and democracy. Within this discourse, whatever its merits, Qatar has come to occupy a place even further along the axis of exceptionalism, all the more so as nearly all of its neighbors – Kuwait, Eastern Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Oman – are now experiencing repeated, public signs of deep discontentment, social unrest, and various forms of state and popular-led violence. Although these ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (December 4)
![[Climate activists gathered for a march on the waterfront in Doha; calling on Arab countries to take the lead in UN climate change negotiations, Saturday 1 December 2012. Image from Flickr/adopt a negotiator]](/content_images/3/sm_8234793688_0336b6f0aa_z.jpg "[Climate activists gathered for a march on the waterfront in Doha; calling on Arab countries to take the lead in UN climate change negotiations, Saturday 1 December 2012. Image from Flickr/adopt a negotiator]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] Reports and opinions Saudis detain families at rights protests A news report on the arrest of dozens of Saudi civilians who were demanding the release of their jailed relatives, on Gulf News. Qatari poet Mohammad Al-Ajami sentenced to life in prison A news report on Al-Ajami’s sentence for “insulting the Emir” and “inciting to ...
Keep Reading »Qatar: Outrageous Life Sentence for 'Jasmine Poet' (Video)
![[Amnesty International logo. Image from @amnesty]](/content_images/3/sm_amnesty1600x1200.png "[Amnesty International logo. Image from @amnesty]")
[The following report, issued by Amnesty International on 29 November 2012, documents the sentencing of Mohammed Ibn al-Dheeb for the publication of his "Jasmine Poem." The video that follows is a recitation of that poem.] A life sentence handed today to a Qatari poet has all the hallmarks of an outrageous betrayal of free speech, Amnesty International has said. Mohammed al-Ajami, also known as Mohammed Ibn al-Dheeb, was tried on charges of incitement “to overthrow the ruling system”, and “insulting the Amir”. He was arrested in November 2011 following the publication of his “Jasmine Poem”, which broadly criticized governments across ...
Keep Reading »Questioning Sectarianism in Bahrain and Beyond: An Interview with Justin Gengler
In popular accounts of politics in the Arabian Peninsula in this post-Arab uprisings era, "sectarianism" has been an omnipresent signifier for conflict and unrest. The term commonly acts – implicitly, because it is never qualified or defined – as both a description of political contestation and, simultaneously, an explanation for it. The history of "sectarianism" in academia, as an object of study and as an analytic with explanatory power, is a contentious one, used at times ...
Keep Reading »Yemeni Detainee Tortured in Saudi Prison after Extradition by Qatar
[The following is an appeal that Al Karama issued on 14 March 2013 detailing the detention and torture of Yemeni detainee Iwad Al Hayki and calling on the international community and Saudi authorities to look into his case.] Iwad Al Hayki, a thirty-three-year-old Yemeni national has been imprisoned in Al Qasim Prison since 18 October 2010, the day he was extradited by Qatar to the Saudi authorities. Detained incommunicado for almost a year in solitary confinement, he has been subjected to severe ...
Keep Reading »مجلس التعاون الخليجي وحق العقوبة المقدس
تحت قشرة الحداثة، تجثم الممارسات الدنيوية لنظام الحكم القمعي في قطر وبقية دول مجلس التعاون الخليجي. ولكي لا ننسى، يتم تذكيرنا وبشكل مستمر بمدى تسامح حكام مجلس التعاون الخليجي، وخاصة عندما يتعلق الأمر بنقد من أحد رعيتهم. لا تعتبر قضية شاعر قصيدة الياسمين القطري محمد العجمي، الذي حصل في بادئ الأمر على حكم بالسجن المؤبد لدعمه الثورة التونسية وانتقاده للنخب الحاكمة المتسلطة، حالة منعزلة. بل إنها حدث يتكرر بشكل واسع على امتداد منطقة تفخر بأنها ليست بدرجة قمعية الأنظمة مثل النظام الموجود في سوريا. عندما ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (February 2013)
[This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Arabian Peninsula. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Arabian Peninsula-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical analysis and diversity that Jadaliyya strives for, but the views are solely those of the authors. If you are interested in contributing to Jadaliyya, send us your post with your bio and a ...
Keep Reading »GCC and the Sacred Right to Punish
Beneath the thin veneer of modernity, lie the mundane practices of repressive rule in Qatar and the rest of the Gulf Cooperation Council states. Lest we forget. we are continuously reminded of the limits of GCC rulers’ tolerance, particularly in the face of critique from their national subjects. The recent case of Qatari “Jasmine” poet Mohammed al-Ajami, who initially received a life sentence for supporting the Tunisian revolution and criticizing authoritarian ruling elites, is not an outlier. Rather, it ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (February 05)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] Reports and Opinions From football to military might, how Qatar wields global power Jane Kinninmont examines the expansion of Qatar’s international influence, in ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (January 15)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] Regional and International Relations Qatar increases aid to Egypt to $5bn A news report on Qatar’s financial aid to Egypt to boost its shrinking foreign ...
Keep Reading »قطر والفلسطينيون
سواء من حيث التوقيت أو من حيث الجوهر، فإنه من الصعب تفسير زيارة أمير قطر الشيخ حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني إلى غزة في تشرين أول/أكتوبر 2012 بشكل مبسط. وكما هو الحال عادة عندما يتعلق الأمر بالسياسة في فلسطين، فقد تبلورت بشكل سريع العديد من التفسيرات والتأويلات. وبالتالي، فإما أن قطر كانت تسعى لضمان دعم قادة حماس لإعادة انتخاب خالد مشعل لقيادة المكتب السياسي للحركة الإسلامية، وذلك عن طريق استخدام نفوذها الكبير على الإخوان المسلمين للمساعدة في تحويل رفح إلى معبر حدودي اعتيادي ومنتظم بين مصر وفلسطين؛ متذرعة بذلك ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (December 11)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] Reports and Opinions Gulf states must quash unrest – Saudi official A news report on the comments made by the Saudi deputy foreign minister urging the Gulf ...
Keep Reading »Doha as Host and Site for the UNFCCC Negotiations
From 26 November to 7 December 2012, Qatar is hosting the eighteenth Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and, simultaneously, the eighth Meeting of the Parties (MoP) to the Kyoto Protocol. The main issue on the Doha agenda: adopting meaningful global emissions reduction commitments for a second implementation period (2012-2015) under the Kyoto Protocol (that is otherwise set to expire at the end of this year) and thus setting the stage for ...
Keep Reading »Qatar and the Palestinians
Whether in terms of timing or substance, the October 2012 visit of Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani to the Gaza Strip defies simple explanation. As so often where Palestinian politics is concerned, a cottage industry of explanations and interpretations rapidly materialized. Thus Qatar was either seeking to ensure the support of Hamas’s Gaza leaders for the re-election of Khalid Mashaal to the leadership of the Islamist movement’s Politbureau; using its considerable influence with the ...
Keep Reading »Going from Pillar to Truce
On the eighth day of the bombardment of Gaza, the Israeli government agreed to sit down with the Hamas leadership and the Egyptian government to come up with a ceasefire agreement. Hamas and Egypt had called for a ceasefire from early into the conflict, but the Israelis had refused. An early Israeli draft indicated that they wanted Hamas to accept a fifteen-year hudna or truce, which would be tantamount to asking the Palestinians to accept their occupation without any resistance. When the ...
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