Article catch up 25, May 2009
Posted by thegulfblog.com in Kuwait, Lebanon, LNG, Middle East, Qatar.Tags: Arab media, Brain Ulrich, Der Spiegel, Hariri, Israel, Kuwait elections, LNG, Lobby, Qatar, Sudan convoy
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Here’s a selection of the weekend’s best articles that caught my attention:
- Brian Ulrich has an excellent article, summarised on this blog and in full on the Arab Media and Society journal, discussing blogs as but the latest communicative media in the Middle East. It is wide-ranging, interesting and well worth a read.
- The Arabist quotes Guy Gabriel at the Palestine Chronicle and his trawl of all available media stories concerning the supposed Israeli attack on the arms convoy in Sudan.
- Der Spiegel highlights new evidence that the assassins of Hariri in Lebanon was actually Hezbollah’s special forces and not directly Syrian backed…But many in the media, including Joshua Landis are less than convinced about this story’s veracity. He eloquently sketches out the (many) reasons for his scepticism here.
- Foreign Affairs has an article discussing the various lobby groups operating in Washington DC.
- The FT on the great scramble for African land: “they’re almost giving it away.”
- Qatar’s ever closer investing, importing and exporting relationship with Indonesia.
- The Economist on Kuwait’s elections and future difficulties.
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