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Iraq’s law on how local parties are funded and founded has the potential to change the political landscape for better. But various parts of the new act seem to contradict one another.
It is less than a year before Iraq holds the next round of significant elections; the provincial elections, which…
A British MP who recently went on two trips to Bahrain paid for by the repressive Gulf kingdom's rulers is due to return the favour next week by hosting a reception in the House of Commons "celebrating" 200 years of Bahraini-British relations.
Last October, Bahrain's foreign ministry splashed out…
Where to learnArabic: courses in the Middle East
Egypt | Jordan | Kuwait | Lebanon | Morocco|Tunisia | UAE
This is a country-by-country listing of of Arabic language courses in the Middle East.
If you spot any errors or omissions please post a note in the comments section below.
Egypt
Ahlan-Egypt…
One of the world's strangest human rights organisations, the Emirati-funded Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD), was declared bankrupt by a court in Norway yesterday.
The case was brought by an employee, Thomas Bechmann, who claimed he was owed NOK 250,000 ($30,120) in unpaid wages…
Readers are welcome to submit articles that provide informed commentary or analysis on some aspect of Arab society, politics or culture.
The general policy of al-bab is not to offer "more of the same" but to highlight important issues which have been neglected by other media. Open sources are…
Re:Orient exhibition, 2013
The pictures on this page are from Re:Orient, an exhibition looking at modernism in Arab art from the 1950s to the 1970s.
The exhibition, organised by the Barjeel Art Foundation, was held in the UAE in 2013. The images and accompanying notes come from the exhibition's…
"Millennials are the first generation to grow up with the internet ... our minds do not operate within a nationalist space but within a globalised or internationalist space." A view of Brexit from a young British-born Moroccan. The article was first published on the Arab Millennial website.…
The dissemination of hate speech on Twitter is an obvious cause for concern. Until recently it seems to have relied mainly on the efforts of bigoted individuals and – although there is a lot of it – the need for manual posting has set some limits on how many offensive tweets there might be.
But now…
A few months ago I began to feel that something odd was happening whenever I posted a tweet about Bahrain. My tweets, usually critical of Bahrain's government, rapidly disappeared from view – pushed down the #bahrain live Twitter feed by lots of newer tweets, mostly supporting the Bahraini…
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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
