Arab Spring

Raif Badawi’s translator Constantin Schreiber’s 2015 Foreword is a piece worth deconstructing. Since he analyses Raif’s 2012 blog posts a few years later, in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, the analysis has the benefit of hindsight, aftereffects that Raif could not have known since events were still unfolding. But…

“This is not just another show. It is a statement. And people need it.” — Bassem Youssef, a former surgeon turned political satire host, tells his story of how his show Albernameg, or The Show, influenced the Arab World and the consequences of what seemed to be an innocent comedy show. …

The Ardent Swarm is Yamen Manai’s modern political allegory on post-Arab spring Tunisia. In Manai’s novel, we have Sidi as our protagonist, an aged beekeeper living in the fictional mountain village of Nawa. Nawa is part of the country Sidi Bou which, at the start of the book, we learn…

How we perceive the World Cup has been forever changed by the latest FIFA tournament in Qatar. Not only for the many firsts it represented, although they were quite significant and noteworthy, but also for the scope of debates it sparked off, and the grim Western bias it exposed. The…

[REPOST] This article was written on April 3rd, 2020 and initially published on Blogger. — If you ask people if they would like to be a president for one day, most of them would probably answer : ‘Heck yeah !’. However, if you were to further the conversation to what…

The Al Thani, the royal house that rules Qatar, has throughout its history faced Saudi attempts to subdue the peninsula. The saudi shadow Saudi Arabia considers itself the head of the region. By hosting Mecca, its ascendancy over all Muslims seems indisputable. The fact that all Muslims must maintain good…

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) has concluded the first Arab Entrepreneurship Summit by announcing the commitment of its partners supporting small and medium-sized enterprises, worth more than $130 million. ESCWA Executive Secretary Rola Dashti announced with her partners these commitments, which include digitizing 100…

The Arab world be back to deserts . If there is no oil There is no export There is no money May be a small trade of dry fruits and camel milk could not make up as much as the crude that has made them multi billion dollar economy They…