When Kuwaiti citizens enthusiastically celebrated their Golden Independence Anniversary last month together with twenty years of liberation after Saddam Hussein’s invasion and expulsion as well as the present Amir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah being in power for five years (50-20-5) they might already have sensed that the awakening of the Arab world would finally [...]
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The Spread of Democracy
Posted in Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE, tagged Andreas Gursky, Egypt, Hamad ibn Issa Al Khalifa, Libya, Pearl roundabout, Shi'a, Tahrir square, Tunesia, UN SC Resolution 1973 on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Anti-Semites and Hypocrites on the Freedom Flotilla
Posted in Kuwait, Palestine, Turkey, tagged activists, anti-semitism, Gaza Flotilla, Islamists, Mavi Marmara, Waleed Al-Tabtabaie on June 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Kuwait’s newspapers report today of exhilarated Kuwaiti ‘freedom fighters’ and ‘activists’ who had been on board the Mavi Marmara of the Gaza Flotilla. Some of them are notorious Islamists such as MP Dr. Waleed Al-Tabtabaie, who, as an example, had expressed his dismay about four brave females elected last year to the Kuwaiti Parliament by walking [...]
Research in the Middle East
Posted in Academics, Iran, Islam, Kuwait, Kuwait University, Science, tagged Gallup report, Science Metrix report, transgenic animals on February 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this week, New Scientist has reported on a recent discussion paper by Science Metrix, which concludes that Iran is showing the fastest scientific growth of any country in the world, nearly four times faster than the world average. Al Jazeera informed us today about the first transgenic animals in the Middle East. Nothing new in [...]
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