Comments on: About http://thegulfblog.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:49:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Garth http://thegulfblog.com/about/#comment-15131 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:00:06 +0000 #comment-15131 A good article which argues that the success of a revolution in a given country hinges on the nature of that country’s military-government relationship: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13941523

]]> By: BigManInOman http://thegulfblog.com/about/#comment-14019 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 07:49:06 +0000 #comment-14019 I find it very scary that ‘not religiously forbidden’ supersedes ‘not morally forbidden’ and that enslaving women is preferable to adultery and corruption.

http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MzQxNDA4NDA2

]]> By: thegulfblog.com http://thegulfblog.com/about/#comment-13519 Tue, 17 May 2011 21:36:54 +0000 #comment-13519 Hi there. Send over the info when it’s free and I’ll give it a look over. Best

]]> By: Rima Sacre http://thegulfblog.com/about/#comment-13509 Tue, 17 May 2011 15:20:21 +0000 #comment-13509 I’m writing on behalf of the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), the international research institute which produces the Global Peace Index (GPI). As you have covered the GPI in the past, we thought you might be interested in knowing that this year it will be launched on May 25th 2011. We’d like to send you further information and the results at that time.

As you may recall, the GPI is the world’s only ranking of nations according to their peacefulness. Now in its fifth year, the Index not only measures the relative peacefulness of 153 countries but it also seeks to identify the drivers of peace. Comprising both qualitative and quantitative indicators, the GPI is collated and calculated for the Institute by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

If you’d like to speak to someone from the Institute of Economics and Peace about the GPI or interview them for your blog, do let us know and we would be happy to set this up for you.

If you’ve got any thoughts or questions about the Index, our methodology, or our organisation, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

GPI results, interactive maps, a video and charts will be available from May 25th at our comprehensive consumer website, http://www.visionofhumanity.org. We look forward to sharing this year’s findings with you soon.
Best wishes,

]]> By: luca schiano http://thegulfblog.com/about/#comment-12550 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:31:23 +0000 #comment-12550 in Rome (Europe) same protesters assailed the embassy of Libya and destroied the green flag of Gheddafi Government, replacing it with the rebels flag, the triband red-black-green; it was interesting to see the crescent depicted on that flag with a simple chalk.

]]> By: thegulfblog.com http://thegulfblog.com/about/#comment-12205 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:32:19 +0000 #comment-12205 Hi. The key is to be different. ‘Everyone’ has degrees – often good ones – these days. Write a blog; go to conferences and meet everyone there giving out your business card like confetti; write for regional newspapers; learn arabic and or farsi: in this world you can, to a large degree, make yourself un-unemployable (you’re so good, they’ve just got to hire you). Best of luck

]]> By: Ahmed http://thegulfblog.com/about/#comment-12103 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:48:58 +0000 #comment-12103 Hello
I have commented on this section before regarding the study of international relations. I have received an offer of admission to the premier undergraduate international relations program in the country of my residence (Canada). I am of Middle Eastern background and have a keen interest in the politics, economics, history and military balance in the MENA region. I also have the ability to read, write and speak in a few of the regions languages. The reason of my post aside from a rant is to ask about how difficult is it to get a posting in one of the think tanks and similar entities which focus on the region within the region. For me to study the region from across the world does not appear very “exciting”… and I believe that is a view similar to your own (according to what you have written above)

Thank you in advance

]]> By: thegulfblog.com http://thegulfblog.com/about/#comment-11677 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:14:57 +0000 #comment-11677 WordPress.com can’t do ad banners!

]]> By: Sarah http://thegulfblog.com/about/#comment-11672 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:22:59 +0000 #comment-11672 could you please pass me your e-mail as i want to ask you some questions regarding ad banners.

]]> By: thegulfblog.com http://thegulfblog.com/about/#comment-11292 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:06:48 +0000 #comment-11292 In short: a load of rubbish. I think the author has maliciously and deliberately confused the facebook shenanigans that I’ve mentioned with some fictional plan for an Al Thani to return who hasn’t lived here for 15 years to take over as Emir. Silliness.

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