WorldcrunchSPOTLIGHT: LONE WOLVES OF ISIS The Islamic State terror group (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for two terrorist attacks in the past two days: a mass shooting at a gay nightclub early Sunday in Orlando, Florida, and a targeted stabbing of a police officer and his wife near Paris late last night. But while the attacks […]
Released in late May after two years in prison, Nabeel Rajab has taken his cause to foreign capitals. But will the West challenge the oil-rich nation’s human rights record.
Thursday, June 19, 2014 U.S. WANTS MALIKI GONE U.S. officials are increasing pressure on the Iraqi government, warning that the U.S. won’t intervene militarily to stop the barbaric ISIS fighters until Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki steps down, British newspaper The Independent reports. Speaking to the BBC this morning, Maliki’s spokesman rejected calls for his […]
BBC NEWS, THE GUARDIAN (UK), WASHINGTON POST, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (US) Worldcrunch MANAMA – A Bahraini civilian court has upheld jail sentences against 20 leaders of last year’s pro-democracy demonstrations, including eight prominent activists facing life in prison, reports BBC News. Among those convicted to life were Abdulhadi al Khawaja, who went on a 110-day […]
A R A B I C A ارابيكا By Kristen Gillespie BAHRAIN, BELOW THE SURFACEThough largely ignored by the English-language media, Bahrainis continue to press for revolution. Soldiers were brought in earlier this year from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and other countries in an effort to keep the Sunni Al Khalifa family from overthrow. With […]
A R A B I C A ارابيكا By Kristen Gillespie KILLERS IN SYRIAThe situation in Syria appears to be worsening further as intellectuals and doctors are being assassinated. Opposition activists blame the government for the deaths they say are an attempt to stoke sectarian tensions while the government continues to blame unnamed “armed terrorist […]
A R A B I C A ارابيكا By Kristen Gillespie BAHRAIN & SAUDI ARABIAElfagr.org reports that Bahraini political activist Mohammed al-Shihabi is warning of a Saudi-American scheme “in collaboration with the Al Khalifa government to control Bahrain completely.” Al-Shihabi cites the Bahraini king’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia (which has deployed at least 1,000 […]
A R A B I C A ارابيكا By Kristen Gillespie SAUDI WOMENOver the weekend, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah granted the right of women to vote… in 2015. Elections for the Shoura Council, will be held this week, but women are not allowed to participate. Elaph.com published a commentary by Essam Abullah, who calls the […]
A R A B I C A ارابيكا By Kristen Gillespie SYRIA: TORTUREThis disturbing video shows Syrian security forces beating a man named Loay Amr, who was teaching school in Saudi Arabia. He returned home to the village of Houla, near Homs, and was captured, beaten and killed. The soldiers force him to repeat an […]
Authorities in Bahrain have lifted the state of emergency first put in place in April, when police began cracking down hard on the country’s Arab Spring-inspired protest movement. Tensions, however, remain palpable as talks that were supposed to ease the
A R A B I C A ارابيكا WHAT IS THE LIMIT?A Turkish grassroots campaign to “welcome our Syrian brothers to our country” is organizing a caravan to transport citizens from Istanbul on July 16th to the Turkish-Syrian border where refugees are staying. Calling the effort “For Syria – we will go to the limit” […]
A R A B I C A ارابيكا By Kristen Gillespie TENSION RISINGLebanon’s A-Nahar daily reports on the growing acrimony between the new Hezbollah-backed government and the March 14 opposition faction, headed by former Prime Minister Saad Hariri. The UN’s Special Tribunal for Lebanon last week indicted four men, believed to be members of Hezbollah, […]
As Shiite-led protests against the Sunni royal family are met with a violent crackdown, some in the Shiite majority have started to lash out at Pakistani immigrants, who are Sunni.
GADDAFEED Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi delivered a virulent, often rambling television address, directly threatening violence against his people and declaring himself “the eternal leader of the revolution.” A R A B I C A ارابيكا By Kristen Gillespie GADDAFEED Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi delivered a virulent, often rambling television address, directly threatening violence against his […]
Will the Bahraini royal family be the next Arab domino to fall? As pro-democracy demonstrations in Bahrain enter a second week, protestors hold fast in the face of brutal army repression.
A R A B I C A ارابيكا By Kristen Gillespie ALL NEWS IS GLOBAL *Outrage spread (digitally) around the world, as people woke up to the news of the early-morning attack on Pearl Aquare in Manama, the capital of Bahrain. Sleeping protesters awoke to the scent of tear gas and armed riot police forming […]