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Archives for October 2012

Press / BloGlobal / October 30, 2012

Gulf Monarchies inside and outside

BloGlobal spoke to Sultan al-Qassemi about external and internal dimension of the Gulf Monarchies’ policies during the Festival of Internazionale 2012.  Read more »

Articles / Al Monitor / October 25, 2012

UAE Political Islamists Are Not ‘Human Rights Defenders’

For almost two years, the UAE’s political Islamists have been referred to in the West as human rights activists. No doubt, they are indeed activists with an agenda but there is also no doubt that they are not our version of Nelson Mandela, nor is their vision for the country that of the Magna Carta. I have been following their rhetoric — in Arabic — over the past few months on social media with great concern. I have found it to be xenophobic; anti-Semitic; sectarian; exclusionary; racist toward Asians, Africans and other Arabs and overall repugnant. Read more »

Articles / Al Monitor / October 23, 2012

Romney Takes Issue With Muslim Brotherhood

From Mitt Romney’s geographic blunders to Obama’s ignorance of Iranian suffering under sanctions to both candidates’ treatment of Israel as a political ‘red line’, there are many good reasons why this election does not rank among the top issues in the Middle East. Read more »

Articles / Open Democracy / October 23, 2012

US elections and the Gulf states

It won’t come as a surprise to many to learn that the US presidential elections are a secondary and perhaps even a tertiary matter in the post uprising Arab world. For starters there’s a bloody civil war in Syria backed by Russia and Iran on one side and Saudi Arabia and Qatar on the other. The latter two states control and fund Al Arabiya and Al Jazeera respectively which dominate the Arab news airwaves and are busy actively marketing the agendas of the governments that fund them. But this does not mean the Arabs are uninterested in the outcome. Read more »

Articles / Egypt Independent / October 21, 2012

The fate of the ‘Brotherhoods’ outside Egypt

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood today is the political group that calls the shots, affecting not only Egypt but also countries where the organization has active chapters. Contrary to popular belief, it could be argued that the Brotherhood’s rise to power in Egypt wasn’t necessarily a good thing for its regional affiliates. Read more »

Videos / NADiRinforma / October 21, 2012

Internazionale a Ferrara 2012 – Maryam Al-Khawaja e Sultan Al Qassemi

Maryam Al- Khawaja and Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi discuss the present and future condition of the so-called Arab Spring, focusing on key-countries such as Egypt and on themes less discussed, such as the influence of regional actors on these various movements. Read more »

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About Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi

Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi is an Emirati columnist and researcher whose articles have appeared in The Financial Times, The Independent, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Globe and Mail, as well as other notable publications. Al Qassemi is also a prolific commentator on Arab affairs on Twitter.

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