World’s Power Power-Plays over People
By Jessica Koontz
More than 600 people have died in Syrian uprisings in the past weeks as the international community steps forth to try to end massacres within the country. More died in Homs, just after Russian Foreign Minister…
Will Iranian Oil Embargo undermine European economy?
By Jessica Koontz
At first glance it would appear as though the economic noose is beginning to tighten around Iran. In a rare example of cohesion, the U.S. has successfully pushed for sweeping Western sanctions against the Islamic…
Can Libya Adopt the Qatari Model?
By Alexandre Hawath
The tiny, conservative gulf emirate Qatar, surrounded by the Iranian and Saudi giants, offered little promise of regional or world leadership even 20 years ago. Since then, however, Qatar has effectively…
Video: CNN Interviews Ali AlAhmed
November 1, 2011
Washington DC - CNN’s the Situation Room interviewed IGA director Ali Ahmed on the occasion of the appointment of the new Saudi Crown Prince Naif Bin Abdulaziz following the death of his older brother Sultan form…
Bahrain’s Uncertain Future
By Alexandre Josef
King Hamad’s speech at the United Nation General Assembly last month was the ultimate evidence of the impasse the small Kingdom of Bahrain has reached with regards to its national dialogue. Indeed, since the waves of…
Bahrain’s Uncertain Future
By Alexandre Josef
King Hamad’s speech at the United Nation General Assembly last month was the ultimate evidence of the impasse the small Kingdom of Bahrain has reached with regards to its national dialogue. Indeed, since the waves of…
New Analyst Joins IGA: Ahmed Abdulhussain
Ahmed Abdulhussain is a policy analyst on Bahrain at the Gulf Institute and head of the American Task Force for Bahrain, New York branch.
Ahmed Abdulhussain is a Law LL.B., from Bahrain. He is a political analyst and…
Competition between Turkey, Iran, and Saudi
By Lev Yuriditsky
For anyone following the developments in the Middle East, it is apparent that Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are circling the countries of the Arab Spring like vultures over a dying cattle. The changing domestic make-up…
SHAKOURI: Still no Arab Spring for Saudi women
By Shireen Shakouri - The Washington Times
Friday, September 30, 2011
The traditional Western views of Arab women as docile, submissive, black-draped figures hidden from the public eye have been challenged this past spring during the mass…
The Last Yemen’s Civil War goes Unnoticed
By Lev Yuriditsky
As the civil war in Libya is coming to an end and the country is paving the way for a new beginning, a new government and new relations with the rest of the world, another one is on a rapid climb towards its climax in…