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Articles / Foreign Policy / January 17, 2011

Twilight of the Arab republics

The Arab world watched in awe last week as brave Tunisians overthrew their corrupt president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, of the past 23 years. As in other Arab “republics” established in the populist ferment of the 1950s, Tunisians have been suffering from rampant corruption and economic deprivation for decades — leading to frustration that eventually boiled onto the streets despite their government’s tight restrictions on freedom of speech and assembly. Read more »

Articles / Emarat Alyoum / January 16, 2011

مؤتمر «مصدر» وتوماس

تناولت إحدى حلقات برنامج أميركا: حكاية الولايات المتحدة التي بثت أخيراً على شاشة القناة المتخصصة في التاريخ «هيستوري» رواية المخترع الأميركي توماس إديسون الذي له الفضل في اختراع المصباح الكهربائي عام 1879 الكثيرون لا يدركون أن إديسون لم يكتشف المصباح الكهربائي، ولكن له الفضل في اختراع مصباح عملي ذي جدوى اقتصادية في التصنيع والبيع.

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Articles / Emarat Alyoum / January 9, 2011

التبرع بالأعضاء الجسدية في الإمارات

لا يعرف حتى أقرب أصدقائي أنهأ إذا جاء أجلي وأنا في بريطانيا، فإنه سيتم أخذ أعضائي الجسدية الداخلية لمساعدة الغير، إذ أعطيت السلطات هذا الحق بمجرد إشارة بسيطة على مربع في رخصة القيادة التي حصلت عليها من هناك حين كان عمري 17 عاماً، وفيما يسمى «الدائرة الحميدة».

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Articles / The National / January 9, 2011

‘Change we can believe in’? Not for the Middle East

Mr Obama’s policies have allowed for an overall regression in democracy in the Arab world. It’s high time for fresh faces and fresh ideas from the White House to deal with outdated policies that have clearly failed in effecting a genuine change in the Middle East. Read more »

Articles / The National / December 31, 2010

2010 shines as a celebration of ‘Kulluna Khalifa’

One need only look to the thousands of UAE citizens who thronged to Al Rawda Palace in Al Ain during September 2010 to see that this year was the year of Sheikh Khalifa. Read more »

Articles / The National / December 12, 2010

An independent intellectual sphere is vital to the Gulf

Perhaps no Arab is better known as a public intellectual than the great late Arab American scholar Edward Said, whose writings and lectures resonated across the world. Said once wrote: “The role of the intellectual is not to consolidate authority, but to understand, interpret and question it.” Read more »

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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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