So, I am in Kuwait for another business trip. I had my share of adventure yesterday on my way to Kuwait. Just when the airplane was about to land, I spotted a sandstorm coming towards the Kuwait City. It looked pretty amazing through the window, it was like a huge brown blanket covering the city. To...

Female bloggers from across the Middle East joined hands in marking the International Women's Day with posts reflecting on the occasion and celebrating the lives and achievements of women who have touched them. In Saudi Arabia, American Bedu admits that while many women in the kingdom may not ev...

The Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) hopes to achieve a monetary union, with a common currency, by 2010. Bloggers from the region, which groups Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, debate the merits of the union and more importantly what name they want for their new curren...

There's actually a lot Obama can learn from the troubled presidency of George W. Bush....

So the herd of wankers in the Kuwaiti Parliament just forced the government to tender its resignation. You know why? Because they deemed the Prime Minister responsible for allowing another wanker, an Iranian scholar, who they accused of maligning “God and the friends of prophet Mohammed� to ente...

Early this evening I went to a panel on "Negotiating Community in the Arab Persian Gulf" which featured Fahad Bishara from Duke, Farah al-Nakib of London's School for Oriental and African Studies, UCLA'a Laith Ulaby, Leila De Vriese of Hamline University, and a chair/discussant whose name I did not ...

Kuwait’s Dr. Sa'd Al-'Inzi must be a lot of fun at parties. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Following are excerpts from an interview with Kuwaiti Islamist Dr. Sa’d Al-’Inzi, which aired on Al-Rai TV on December 10, 2007: Moderator: Doctors and professionals recommend that p...

The dozen men and women gathered in a Loudoun County hotel conference room yesterday morning hardly knew each other. But all had served in the U.S. military in Iraq or Afghanistan, and all seemed to agree that few people in their lives -- relatives, colleagues, friends -- were willing to listen t......

A Saudi-funded academy in Fairfax County used textbooks as recently as 2006 that compared Jews and Christians to apes and pigs, told eighth-graders that these groups are "the enemies of the believers" and diagrammed for high school students where to cut off the hands and feet of thieves, a......

A Saudi-funded academy in Fairfax County used textbooks as recently as 2006 that compared Jews and Christians to apes and pigs, told eighth-graders that these groups are "the enemies of the believers" and diagrammed for high school students where to cut off the hands and feet of thieves, a......