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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 14)

[Joint naval exercises involving the US and forty of her allies were held in the Gulf this past week. Image from flickr/Ryan O'Connor. 2005.]

[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 FBI surrounds house of Saudi student after sightings of him with pressure cooker pot – only to discover he was cooking RICE Martin Jay writes on Talal al Rouki who aroused suspicion when he carried a pressure cooker to a friend’s house, in the Daily Mail. Saudi Arabia to punish men for converting ...

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Arabian Peninsula Monthly Edition (April 2013)

[USS Ponce, part of the US 5th Fleet, pulls into Kingdom of Bahrain. Image from Flickr/Official US Navy Imagery.]

[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 release form to post@jadaliyya.com. Click "Submissions" on the main page for more information.]
 Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (April 30) A weekly collection of ...

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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (April 23)

[2013 Bahrain Grand Prix goes ahead despite mass protests. 20 April 2013. Image from flickr/Steven Tee/LAT Photographic.]

[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 Qataris officially biggest spending tourists outside the EU Simon Neville writes on Qataris’ spending patterns in the United Kingdom, in The Guardian. Saudi Control of Lebanon: A Little Tourism and Sympathy Ghassan Saoud examines the Lebanese-Saudi relations and describes Saudi Arabia ...

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Theorizing the Arabian Peninsula Roundtable: Thinking Globally About Arabia

[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?  Does the Arabian Peninsula ...

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Theorizing the Arabian Peninsula Roundtable: Capital and Labor in the Gulf States: Bringing the Region Back In

[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? My work has focused on the political ...

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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (April 9)

[Yemen's Counter Terrorism Unit. 12 January 2010. Image from flickr/Ammar Abd Rabbo]

[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 expels thousands of Yemeni workers Ian Black reports on the expulsion of thousands of workers in Saudi Arabia following new employment regulations, in The Guardian. Qatar gambles on Egypt power struggle Roula Khalaf examines Qatar’s economic and political influence in Egypt, ...

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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (April 2)

[Nimr al-Nimr. Image from Press TV]

[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 says detained ‘spy ring’ linked to Iran A news report on the arrest of eighteen people allegedly linked to Iran earlier this month in Saudi Arabia, on Al Jazeera English. Qatar Foreign Minister criticises Egyptian media Nouran El-Behairy reports on Hamad bin Jassem Al-Thani’s accusation ...

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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (March 27)

[Youth activists now 'sidelined' in a post-Saleh Yemen. Image from Sallam/flickr. 7 March 2011]

[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 Saudi Arabia arrests 18 suspected spies A news report on the arrest of a Lebanese, an Iranian, and sixteen Saudis on allegations of spying for foreign countries, on Al Jazeera English. Saudi Arabia Shia leaders criticise arrests A news report on a statement issued by Shi`a community leaders ...

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سيد الأردن: عن ما يقارب 400 أردني في السجون السعودية

               

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Yemeni Detainee Tortured in Saudi Prison after Extradition by Qatar

[Image from Wikimedia Commons.]

[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 torture. To date, he has never been charged or tried. Both his rendition by Qatar and torture at the hands of Saudi Arabia are serious breaches of the UN Convention against ...

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Long Sentences Imposed on Saudi Human Rights Activists

[Alkarama logo. Image from alkarama.org]

[This report was originally issued by Alkarama on 12 March 2013.] KSA: Two prominent human rights defenders sentenced to 10 and 11 years in prison after unfair trial The Saudi authorities should immediately release Mohammad Al Qahtani and Abdullah Al Hamid, two Saudi human rights defenders and co-founders of the Saudi Association for civil and political rights (ACPRA). The two men were sentenced last Saturday to ten and eleven years in prison for accusations including "breaking allegiance to the King," "disseminating false information through foreign entities," and "forming an unlicensed organization." This trial and the ensuing heavy ...

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Saudi Arabia Imprisons Activists and Dissolves Prominent Rights Organization

[Gulf Center for Human Rights logo. Image from gc4hr.org]

[This report was originally published by the Gulf Center for Human Rights on 11 March 2013.] Saudi Arabia - The authorities imprison prominent human rights defenders Dr. Abdullah Al-Hamid and Dr. Mohammed Al-Qahtani and dissolve the Association for Civil and Political Rights (ACPRA) On 9 March 2013, the eleventh hearing of the trial of Dr. Abdullah Al-Hamid and Dr Mohammed Al Qahtani, the co-founders of the Association for Civil and Political Rights (ACPRA), was held at the Criminal Court in Riyadh, during which the presiding judge Hammad Al-Omar issued the following sentences and provisions: 
Five years in prison for Dr. Abdullah Al-Hamed in addition to the 6 ...

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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 8)

[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 minister: US to remain energy dependent A news report on the oil minister’s dismissal of talk of US energy ...

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Salman al-Awdah: In the Shadow of Revolutions

There is nothing that prompts us to encourage revolution as it is enshrined in danger...It just comes when profound reform has stumbled.— Salman al-Awdah Like all of us watching the Arab world in the last two years, Saudi Islamists (I refer throughout to the Salafi Islamists) were taken by surprise when the Arab masses marched en masse calling for the downfall of their regimes. Official Saudi religious scholars immediately warned against the chaos of revolutions, banned demonstrations, and called for ...

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Theorizing the Arabian Peninsula: Introduction to the Roundtable

This electronic roundtable marks the one-year anniversary of Jadaliyya's Arabian Peninsula Page, in which time we have hosted work by activists, journalists, artists, and scholars that has made a significant intellectual—and, we hope, political—contribution. Despite the sophisticated, critical, and oft-politically engaged literature emerging from and about the Arabian Peninsula, however, the region remains marginalized, in multiple ways, within academic and popular analyses. Theorizing the Arabian ...

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Theorizing the Arabian Peninsula Roundtable: Knowledge In the Time of Oil

[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 ...

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Theorizing the Arabian Peninsula Roundtable: Unpacking Knowledge Production and Consumption

[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 ...

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Arabian Peninsula Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (March 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. These 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 ...

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أصداء الربيع العربي فــي المملكة السعودية

 مساء الأول من آذار/مارس، انتشر خبر عن قيام الشرطة السعودية باعتقال 176 شخصاً، بينهم 15 امرأة وعدد من الأطفال ممن اعتصموا أمام مقر هيئة التحقيق والادعاء العام في مدينة بريدة وسط المملكة السعودية، للمطالبة بالإفراج عن معتقلين ومعتقلات تحتجزهم السلطات السعودية منذ سنوات طويلة بدون محاكمة، أو بعد انتهاء فترة محكومية بعضهم. إلا أن الاعتقالات الجديدة لم تمنع أهالي المعتقلين من التجمع والاعتصام في الأيام التالية أمام ديوان المظالم والسجن المركزي، إضافة إلى مقر هيئة التحقيق والادعاء العام في المدينة. ...

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زينب الخواجة: رسالة من سجن بحريني

القادة العظماء خالدون. لوقع أقوالهم وأعمالهم صدى عبر السنوات والعقود والقرون، وعبر المحيطات والحدود. وهم إلهام يمس حياة الناس الراغبين بالتعلم. مارتن لوثر كينغ قائد استثنائي. عندما أقرأ كلماته، أتخيله يقرأ لنا من أرض أخرى ومن عصر آخر، ليعلمنا بعض الدروس المهمة جداً. وفوق ذلك، هو يحدثنا عن تفادي فخ المرارة أو النزول إلى مستوى مضطهدينا، وعن الإرادة لبذل تضحيات كبيرة من أجل الحرية. ومع بذور الأمل ومقاومة الاضطهاد التي أورقت في العالم العربي، رأى الشعب البحريني بصيص فجر جديد. فجر واعد بنهاية ليل الاضطهاد ...

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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (March 19)

[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  As the smoke clears after Saudi Arabia’s latest mass execution by firing squad… Charles and Camilla fly ...

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An Open Letter From Salman al-Odah

[The following is an open letter from Saudi sheikh and former political prisoner Salman al-Odah to the Saudi Arabian regime dated 15 March 2013. It has been circulating widely in English and Arabic.] Introduction: 1. Your friend is the one who speaks to you honestly. A rational person values the truth, regardless of who speaks it. We are speaking about the nation we love and whose future we are all equally concerned about. 2. We must preserve the gains we have made. Our shared geography should ...

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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (March 12)

[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 ...

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Jordanian Held Incommunicado in Saudi Arabia

[The following call to action was issued by Amnesty International on 26 February 2013.] A Jordanian man has been held incommunicado in an undisclosed location in Saudi Arabia since 6 January. He was last seen being arrested by Saudi Arabian security forces, and has since been denied access to his family and to the outside would. The conditions of his detention may amount to enforced disappearance if the Saudi Arabian authorities continue to refuse disclosing his fate. Jordanian web ...

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