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Regional security: how the GCC could play a role

7 April 2021William LawArab Digest EmailChina, GCC, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Qatar, Syria, UAE, USA, Yemen

Opportunity beckons for a MENA regional security initiative but it requires a leadership role from the GCC.

Lebanon: justice delayed is justice denied

4 February 202118 February 2021William LawArab Digest EmailLebanon

In the midst of a collapsing economy and a rapid rise in Covid-19 numbers, the investigation into the Beirut port blast has ground to a halt.

Murders masked with honour

21 January 2021William LawArab Digest Emailhonour killlings, Kuwait, Lebanon, Tunisia, UAE

Article 153 is a law that enables the abuse and murder of women; it must be removed from Kuwait’s penal code.

The new generation of Arab photographers

18 January 2021William LawArab Digest EmailEgypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

A new generation reclaims and redefines the way they see themselves and their world and in the process give the world images that challenge and refute traditional tropes and stereotypes.

Water in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute

14 January 2021William LawArab Digest EmailIsrael, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria

Palestinians have much less water than the WHO says is necessary for health and hygiene. Israel could be far more generous in helping to put this right but presently sees no reason to do so.

The Disconnect: MENA regimes versus the people they rule over

27 November 2020Hugh MilesPodcastsAlgeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen

Arab Digest · The Disconnect: MENA regimes versus the people they rule over

What a second Covid-19 surge means for the Middle East

18 November 2020William LawArab Digest EmailCovid-19, Egypt, GCC, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Yemen

As Covid-19 continues its alarming march, the Middle East is facing difficult challenges and hard choices.

It’s so long Don and hello Joe

10 November 2020William LawArab Digest EmailBahrain, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, USA, Yemen

Some are pleased and some uneasy but Middle East leaders are all prepared to move on to Biden as the Trump presidency recedes in the rearview mirror.

Lebanon’s anguish grows

22 October 2020William LawArab Digest EmailFrance, Hezbollah, Lebanon

With another prime minister gone and Hezbollah blocking the effort to end sectarian government, the people of Lebanon continue to bear a terrible price for the failures of political leadership.

Media and propaganda in the Arab world

8 October 202013 October 2020William LawArab Digest EmailEgypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia

The absolute control of media space in most Arab states effectively smothers freedom of expression and silences critics and opponents.