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		<title>Cultural and Historical Zones Map of the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/05/04/cultural-and-historical-zones-map-of-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 08:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve noted before the superb trove of maps available at the Gulf 2000 website, but here&#8217;s another one this time of the broad cultural and historical zones of the Middle East. &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6064&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf Disunion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 07:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bahrain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kuwait]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Emirates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Gulf]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article appeared in Foreign Policy magazine online on the 2nd May 2012. &#8230; The leaders of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Kuwait) will meet in May to discuss creating a closer federal unit among the states. The idea of closer integration [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6061&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creeping Sharia!</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/04/16/creeping-sharia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brevick EDL CreepingSharia English Defence League]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In England there is a small band of right-wing, racist, really rather unpleasant idiots called the English Defence League or EDL for short. Mostly they&#8217;re a group of football hooligans and other assorted folks with criminal records who like to bang on about how the UK has &#8216;gow&#8217;n to the dogs&#8217; fostering an image of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6050&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the notion of Israel attacking Iran</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/04/04/on-the-notion-of-israel-attacking-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/04/04/on-the-notion-of-israel-attacking-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Meir Dagan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 24 April an article in Jane’s Defence Weekly based on intelligence sources claimed that Iran is only two years away from producing an atomic bomb. However, there is no need to start building a shelter yet as this article was written on 24 April 1984. Need it be stated that Iran – unlike Israel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6044&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Arab World&#8217;s Unlikely Leader: Qatar</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/03/14/the-arab-worlds-unlikely-leader-qatar/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/03/14/the-arab-worlds-unlikely-leader-qatar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Qatar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just written a policy piece on Qatar for the Project on Middle Eastern Democracy (POMED). It&#8217;s available as a PDF here and a summary here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6033&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Santorum or Ayatollah Khamenei?</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/03/01/santorum-or-ayatollah-khamenei/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/03/01/santorum-or-ayatollah-khamenei/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ever interesting ForeignPolicy.com has just the most super article at present; a wee guessing game for you all to try to work out who said what: the GOP&#8217;s gift to the Democrats Rick Santorum or Iran&#8217;s holy keeper of the flame, Ayatollah Khamenei? 1. &#8220;We were put on this Earth as creatures of God [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6024&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Examining Qatari-Saudi Relations</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/02/28/examining-qatari-saudi-relations/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/02/28/examining-qatari-saudi-relations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Die Wilt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hezbollah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar and Iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; German newspaper Die Welt recently reported that Saudi Arabia held a meeting with fellow Gulf States to discuss what should be done to counter increasing Hezbollah activity &#8211; but it did not include Qatar in the discussions. The clear implication was that Saudi Arabia’s elite do not appear to trust their Qatari counterparts in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6015&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Kuwait&#8217;s elections</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/02/14/on-kuwaits-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/02/14/on-kuwaits-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the fourth time in six years, on 2 February Kuwaitis went to the polls to vote in Parliamentary elections. Amid a carnival atmosphere, widespread social mobilisation, and a country abuzz with political discussion, Kuwait’s four female MPs who gained their seats in the previous election were summarily dumped out of office and a loose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6008&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arguments Against Military Intervention in Syria</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/02/09/arguments-against-military-intervention-in-syria/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/02/09/arguments-against-military-intervention-in-syria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Against intervention in Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Against military intervention in Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intervention in Syria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Published on RUSI.org, here are some thoughts militating against military intervention in Syria. For the other side of the coin from @the_steevo_uk see RUSI. ___ Thirty years ago this February Syrian President Hafez Al-Assad, the father of current President Bashar Al Assad, launched a brutal, targeted and effective crack-down on mounting opposition in the town [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6004&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public policy by whim? Qatar University to teach in Arabic</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/02/06/public-policy-by-whim-qatar-university-to-teach-in-arabic/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/02/06/public-policy-by-whim-qatar-university-to-teach-in-arabic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Qatar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Qatar University arabic language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar University to teach in Arabic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qatar&#8217;s Supreme Education Council has announced that Arabic should be the official teaching language of Qatar University. This means that most courses in the Faculty of Law, International Studies, Mass Communication and the Faculty of Management, will need to be taught in Arabic from Fall 2012. Whatever you think about this decision, it is border-line [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5999&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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