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 »
Close Encounters
Posted in Afghanistan, Iran, Oman, UAE, USA, tagged Abu Musa, Fokker F27, Greater and Lesser Tunbs, Gulf of Oman, Iranian speedboats, Persian Gulf, USS Eisenhower, USS Hooper, war games on April 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When CNN had reported Wednesday on an encounter between an Iranian navy plane and the American aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower in the Gulf of Oman earlier this month, the incidence recalled another, almost fatal, encounter two years ago in the Persian Gulf when Iranian speed boats approached U.S. Navy warships including the USS Hooper entering [...]
They’ll Never Forget!
Posted in Iraq, Kuwait, UAE, tagged incubator lie, Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Kuwait Liberation Day, Kuwait National Day, Operation Desert Storm on February 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
On the 2nd of August 1990, Kuwait, the small country in the corner of the Persian Gulf, was invaded by Iraqi troops. The tanks overran the tiny post Abdaly, about 50 km north of the Al Mutlaa ridge. Saddam Hussein was pretty certain that the US would not interfere. He had enjoyed, for [...]
Profit over People
Posted in Islam, Kuwait, UAE, tagged Atlantis, Doha Debate, Dubai, HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah, Islam, Kuwait Stock Exchange, Mohammed Al-Fali, South Asia workforce on November 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This summer has seen riots of Bangladeshi cleaners in Kuwait who had been cheated by companies who had hired them from their home country to the Gulf. ‘Troublemakers’, as strikers had been called in the media, had been ‘calmed down’ by teargas and batons, and numerous had even been deported to their home [...]
Falsafa
Posted in Academics, Germany, UAE, tagged Abu Dhabi, Al-Farabi, Arab culture, Averroes, Avicenna, philosophy, professorship, UAEU, Wahhabism on October 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The work of Greek philosophers, mainly Aristotle but also few of Plato, had been translated into Arabic very early after the Abbasid revolution in the 8th century and continued down to the 10th century. In fact, these great works of humanity were preserved by Muslims. Baghdad was the center of Science and Arts in the [...]
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