Oman

Bahrain regime promoting sectarian division

by News Sources 03.16.2011

Marc Lynch writes: While the American and international debate over Libya continues, the situation in Bahrain has just taken a sharp turn for the worse. A brutal crackdown on the protestors followed the controversial entry of security forces from Saudi Arabia and three other GCC states. Media access has been curtailed, with journalists finding it [...]

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‘Neither with the West, nor against it’

by News Sources 03.04.2011

Alain Gresh writes: The fantasy that the Arabs are passive and unsuited to democracy has evaporated in weeks. Arabs have overthrown hated authoritarian regimes in Tunisia and Egypt. In Libya, they have fought a sclerotic regime in power for 42 years that has refused to listen to their demands, facing extraordinary violence, hundreds of deaths, [...]

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Oman’s Sultan Qaboos: a classy despot

by News Sources 03.04.2011

“Sultan Qaboos, Oman’s absolute ruler, is a man of culture,” writes Brian Whitaker. “I have never encountered a place in the Arab world so well-governed as Oman, and in such a quiet and understated way,” Robert Kaplan wrote the other day in an article for Foreign Policy headed “Oman’s renaissance man”. Last weekend, though, overshadowed [...]

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Intifada update

by News Sources 03.03.2011

Anti-Saleh protests sweep Yemen A growing wave of protests across Yemen is mounting pressure on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to end his 32-year rule Several thousand demonstrators turned out yet again in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday for what are now almost daily rallies against him and denied any links to the US. “The people [...]

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Intifada update

by News Sources 02.27.2011

The Economist’s index of unrest in the Arab world Tunisian interim PM Ghannouchi resigns over protests Tunisian interim Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi has announced on state TV that he is resigning – a key demand of demonstrators. He was speaking at a news conference in Tunis, after making a lengthy speech defending his record in [...]

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