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5th July 2015
King Salman: which way will he jump?
Short of nuclear war, it is difficult to envisage a more cataclysmic event in the Middle East than the collapse of Saudi Arabia. The centrality of Saudi Arabia in Islam, in the global economy and in the region itself, would make turmoil in the kingdom more than… Read more
3rd July 2015
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Sheikha Mozah, wife of Qatar's former emir, returned to the spotlight this week when previously-confidential emails were released by the US State Department.
The emails reveal that while Hillary Clinton was… Read more
3rd July 2015
GNRD supporters demonstrating outside UN headquarters in Geneva on Monday
Considering that the Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD) claims to be a human rights NGO, it has some very strange supporters.
The latest move in the campaign to defend GNRD against its critics is a fake page on… Read more
2nd July 2015
A GNRD supporter at the UN Human Rights Council accused Norway's public prosecutor of racism
In recent statements the Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD) has portrayed itself as an organisation struggling to "forge a genuine international will to combat terrorism" – in the face of… Read more
1st July 2015
Several Facebook pages have appeared during the last few days which seem to have the sole purpose of making defamatory allegations about me. These include claims that I am paid by Qatar to write nice things about it, that I am spying for Qatar and that I was fired from the Guardian for passing… Read more
1st July 2015
Prime minister objects to calling ISIS 'Islamic'
British prime minister David Cameron wants the BBC to stop using the term "Islamic State".
"I wish the BBC would stop calling it 'Islamic State' because it is not an Islamic state," he said during a radio interview.
"What it is is an appalling… Read more
30th June 2015
In a blog post last week I wrote about the Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD) and its extensive network of Palestinian connections. Since then, as part of my continuing investigation, I have been looking at GNRD's Syrian connections.
Syria actually gets more attention on GNRD's… Read more
29th June 2015
Blaming the west misses the main culprits
Predictable as clockwork, in the wake of Friday's carnage at a mosque in Kuwait and on a beach in Tunisia, the Guardian came up with an article headed "It’s not the religion that creates terrorists, it’s the politics".
Considering that the article's author… Read more
27th June 2015
The 29th session of the UN Human Rights Council, currently under way in Geneva, has turned into a platform for some disgraceful lobbying in support of the Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD) – the strange quasi-NGO that Norwegian authorities are investigating on suspicion of money-… Read more
25th June 2015
Publication scheduled for September
When my book, Arabs Without God, was published last year, people asked if there would also be an Arabic edition. That seemed like a good idea and I began exploring ways of doing it.
There have been a few delays but I'm happy to say that most of the text has now… Read more
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
