Nir’s Notes

Caspian Weekly/Cyberdissidents.org Located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula and home to the oil-rich, Western-allied countries of Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, the Persian Gulf is usually viewed as an Arab resort and not as a place of oppression and aggression. But oil is the not the only thing to be found [...]

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By Nir Boms (Lecture notes given in Melbourne, Australia) The main domestic objective of most Middle Eastern governments is to maintain the status quo regarding the balance between citizen freedoms and oppression. Opposition movements can be roughly divided into two main groups: Islamist opposition, which think the governments are too secular, and the democratic or [...]

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