Stories of exploitation of foreign domestic workers in Gulf countries are well know and not this current report renconfirms widely held view about the condition of Asian domestic Workers. " Asian domestic workers in Saudi Arabia face routine...
"Saudi Arabia is pouring billions of dollars into Medina, burial place of the Prophet Mohammed and the cradle of Islam, to turn the religion's second holiest site into a high-tech bastion.The so-called Knowledge...
Saudis, known for banning popular Bollywood and Hollywood films, are now organising the country's first ever film festival. Till date, there are no cinema halls in Saudi Arabia. In fact, when Sanjay Leela Bhansali's...
The warning was overheard at an oil producing countries’ session Riyadh over an open microphone in a private meeting in reply to a proposal from Venezuela and Iran to discuss a currency basket for pricing crude. Prince Saud said: “My feeling is that the mere mention that...
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Saudi Arabian foreign minister Saud Al Faisal expressed concern on thursday that Iran's standoff with western powers over it's nuclear program was headed toward a "Confrontation." Western powers...
Possible ray of hope in the Middle East peace process coming out of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia today during visit by Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates."
JERUSALEM - Saudi Arabia said Wednesday it would seriously...
Arms control experts have called for a serious debate on the quality and quantity of weapons going to the Gulf States. And the Administration's proposed sale to the Saudis in line with its push to sell, sell, and sell, has prompted the Arms Control Association to state "That...
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This is the first time a US official has given a breakdown on the role played by Saudi nationals in Iraq's Sunni insurgency with approximately half of all Saudi fighters coming as suicide bombers. No wonder the Saudis have been useless in providing assistance to Iraq."About...
Berlin: Dennis Ross, chief of the think tanks "Washington Institute
for Near East Policy" and "Institute for Jewish People Policy Planning" sees Germany as the "key" in a likely Iran War.
"The vast majority of...
""There are a lot of things that are different now [that the U.S. occupies Iraq], and one that has gone by almost unnoticed – but it's huge – is that ... we can now remove almost all of our forces from Saudi Arabia. Their presence there over the last 12 years has been a...
"Last week, President Bush appointed a “war czar,” Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, to oversee everything we’re doing in Iraq and Afghanistan — which raises the question: Who was doing this job up to now? The answer, amazingly, is no one. We’re like a fine restaurant that has...
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Potential For Palestine
Michael F. Brown
April 02, 2007
Michael F. Brown is a fellow at the Palestine Center and on the board of Interfaith Peace-Builders. Previously, he was executive director of Partners for Peace and Washington correspondent for Middle East...
The Arab League summit that concluded in Riyadh
Thursday reaffirmed the body's peace offer to Israel, but it hardly
suggested the sort of "bold outreach" to the Jewish State for which
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had been lobbying. Indeed, the
summit appeared to...
"The Arab League summit that concluded in Riyadh Thursday reaffirmed the body's peace offer to Israel, but it hardly suggested the sort of "bold outreach" to the Jewish State for which U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had been lobbying. Indeed, the summit appeared to...