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The Arabian Peninsula
From the Editors
Oil, Gas and the Future of Arab Gulf Countries
Fareed Mohamedi
The Politics of Economic Adjustment in Kuwait
Yahya Sadowski
Arms Supplies and Military Spending in the Gulf
F. Gregory Gause, III
The Closing of the Arabian Oil Frontier and the Future of Saudi-American Relations
Robert Vitalis
A Clash of Fundamentalisms: Wahhabism in Yemen
Shelagh Weir
Arabia without Sultans Revisited
Fred Halliday
Youth Culture, Commodities and the Use of Public Space in Jiddah
Lisa Wynn
"This is the Bride"
Janine Clark
Bahrain's Crisis Worsens
Joe Stork
Bringing the Peninsula in from the Periphery: From Imagined Scholarship to Gendered Discourse
Gwenn Okruhlik
A New Strategy for the Palestinian "Minority" in Israel
Hatim Kanaaneh and Rhoda Kanaaheh
"Nothing More to Lose:" Landowners, Tenants and Economic Liberalization in Egypt
Karim El-Gawhary
Mediations: M-I-C-K-E-Y S-A-U-`-D
Al Miskin
History as Social Critique in Syrian Film
Robert Blecher
LETTER: Val Moghadam On "The Taliban, the Shari`a and the Pipeline"


Other Sources on the Arabian Peninsula

Newspapers
Al-Ayyam (Yemen)
26September (Yemen weekly)
Yemen Times (Yemen Weekly)

Al-Qabas (Kuwait)
Al-Watan (Kuwait)

The Khaleef Times (UAE)
Al-Bayan (UAE)
Al-Ittihad (UAE)
Al-Khaleej (UAE)

Asharq Al-Awsat (Saudi Arabia)
Al-Madinah (Saudi Arabia)
Al-Jazirah (Saudi Arabia)

Al-Ayyam (Bahrain)
Bahrain Tribune (Bahrain)

Al-Watan (Oman)

Gulf Times (Qatar)

Research Centers

Centre for Gulf Arab Studies at the University of Exeter in Britain specializes in the interdisciplinary study of the countries of the Gulf. The website offers basic information about the Centre's activities and the resources it offers, including a documentation unit on the Gulf countries (and some others) and the library's Middle East collection.
The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research

Opposition Movements & Organizations

The Bahrain Human Rights Organization offers both local and international human rights reports on Bahrain, accounts of protests in the country as well as general information about the country in both English and Arabic.

Voice of Bahrain/Bahrain Freedom Movement includes the organization's press releases, commentaries on the human rights situation in Bahrain, as well as petitions and other information about the opposition to the ruling family

Washington office of Union of Yemeni Popular Forces has general information about the country, human rights reports, and news updates from Yemen.

The Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia publishes the group's communiques and newsletter Arabia Unveiled. The latter features interesting articles on opposition movements, the official `ulema', and an expose on the "Prince of the Month." The site has little new information since April 1997.

Committee for Defense of Legitimate Rights (in Saudi Arabia), founded by Dr. Mohammad al-Masari, is the most well-known Saudi opposition movement.

Human Rights Sources
Human Rights Watch
  • Report: The Execution of 'Abd al-Karim Mari'i al-Naqshabandi
  • Arabic Version of the above

    State Dept. Near East Human Rights Reports

  • Bahrain
  • Kuwait
  • Oman
  • Qatar
  • Saudi Arabia
  • United Arab Emirates (UAE)
  • Republic of Yemen

    Amnesty International
    Amnesty has annual reports from most countries as well as special "campaign reports." Readers must go to the Amnesty Home Page and browse from there (but navigation is easy).