On 10 April the Saudi Ministry of Defense announced that it had executed three soldiers after what it called a “fair trial” in a specialist court. The men were convicted and sentenced to death for the crimes of “high treason” and…

Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, the Bahrain human rights activist, was arrested on the night of 9 April 2011. During the arrest at his family home, he was brutally assaulted and his jaw broken in four places. On 22 June, barely two months after his…

The eighteenth session of the Kuwaiti National Assembly elections is not merely one of bad luck for Kuwaiti women. Rather, we may go so far as to label it the “session of exclusion”. For the coming four years, the Kuwaiti Parliament will…

The discussion about representative councils whether legislative, regional or municipal takes on special significance due to the global geopolitical and economic changes and their impact on the political scene in the Gulf. Such impact can…

As a result of the human rights violations and persecution that women are going through around the world at public and private levels, and at the level of law-making and the social status of women, the United Nations General Assembly in…

The US President Donald Trump announced Thursday 13th of August a "peace deal” between the United Arab Emirates and Israel that paves the way and allows the two countries to normalize relations, proceed with the exchange of ambassadors,…

the idea of "fleeing" from their homeland comes to mind for many girls in the Gulf, but that does not mean that they have a serious intention to leave. They talk to themselves about it and contemplate the desire of "salvation" at…

The rout of the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar continues apace with forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA) lifting the siege of Tripoli on 4 June. The following day the city of Tarhuna, a key staging ground for Haftar’s attack on…