The Palestinians. The Islamic World's Quiet Revolution - By Nicholas Eberstadt. Everybody who pays attention to these sorts of things knows Muslim societies are almost uniquely immune to the forces that have been driving down fertility rates on every continent for decades.
But everybody, it seems, fell asleep before the final act. Throughout the ummah (the Arabic term for the global Muslim community), the average number of children born to women is falling dramatically. (Apoorva Shah and I examine the evidence in detail here.) According to the UN's Population Division, all Muslim-majority countries and territories witnessed fertility declines over the past three decades.
War in Context … with attention to the unseen. Iraq and Gulf Analysis. Iraq Updates. Global Brief. Center for International Studies. Middle East focused academics... Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States. Ever since the dust settled after Desert Storm, an assessment of how the oil monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula are faring has been needed.
This clear and concise account is the best analysis to date. The author challenges the conventional view of unchanging traditional political systems rooted in tribalism and religion. Oil wealth has brought great change to each of these states, but not quite in the way that some theorists of rentier states assumed. The welfare state that makes few demands on its citizens has not produced passivity and consent, particularly when oil revenues are in decline. Demands for political participation have grown, and regimes have been obliged to respond, at least with token gestures. Of Saudi Arabia and US policy. This BeastWeek piece by Eli Lake touches on the important topic of the Saudi-led counter-revolution and US policy: Retired Marine Gen.
James Jones, who served as national security adviser in 2009-10, told a private meeting at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that the United States' Persian Gulf allies interpret the president's handling of the Egyptian revolution as a sign that Washington will dump their monarchies or governments if enough demonstrators take to their streets, according to a recording of the speech reviewed by The Daily Beast. “We have paid a price,” Jones said of the decision to call for Hosni Mubarak's ouster. “Our policy with regard to Mubarak as interpreted by some of our closest Arab allies in the Gulf has not gone over well.” Another point of debate is whether the US "dumping" Mubarak had an impact on the outcome of the January uprising.
Ya think? Hammonda. Economic Research Forum. Al Jadid Magazine. Sada. Research Papers. Maysaloon - ميسلون. Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) - Georgetown University. Home - Centre of International Relations. Blog - The Arabist. Home. A Girls' Guide to Saudi Arabia. I wanted to know all about Eve.
“Our grandmother Eve?” Asked Abdullah Hejazi, my boyish-looking guide in Old Jidda. Under a glowing Arab moon on a hot winter night, Abdullah was showing off the jewels of his city—charming green, blue, and brown houses built on the Red Sea more than a hundred years ago. The houses, empty now, are stretched tall to capture the sea breeze on streets squeezed narrow to capture the shade. The latticed screens on cantilevered verandas were intended to ensure “the privacy and seclusion of the harem,” as the Lebanese writer Ameen Rihani noted in 1930. Jidda means “grandmother” in Arabic, and the city may have gotten its name because tradition holds that the grandmother of all temptresses, the biblical Eve, is buried here—an apt symbol for a country that legally, sexually, and sartorially buries its women alive.
When I suggested we visit, Abdullah smiled with sweet exasperation. “Women are not allowed to go into cemeteries,” he told me. Hello—and Good-Bye! Maplecroft. Iraqanalysis.org. US / Saudi Relations. Bitterlemons.net. Iraq. Middle East Stories by Frederick Deknatel.