Beijing’s authorities moved to squash any attempt at creating a regular Middle East-inspired protest activity outside McDonalds in Wangfujing today, something that perhaps risks becoming a weekly ruck between the police and the foreign media.
Entries Tagged as 'Middle East'
Nipping jasmine in the bud
February 27th, 2011 · No Comments · China, Middle East
Tags:Beijing·China·Jasmine·Middle East·protest·revolution·Wangfujing
Beijing’s “Jasmine Revolution”
February 20th, 2011 · 6 Comments · China, Middle East, Photography
Beijing’s “Jasmine revolution” – the media and the police showed up, all that was lacking was a mass of Chinese demonstrators. Photos and a description of the event.
Tags:Beijing·China·democracy·Jasmine revolution·Middle East·politics·protest
Wikileaks puts ICC credibility on the line
November 15th, 2010 · 15 Comments · Middle East, Rest of Asia, Uncategorized
Is whistle-blowing website Wikileaks putting the international war crimes tribunal in an uncomfortable position? Its Afghanistan war logs provide information that the International Criminal Court could theoretically use to prosecute Americans.
Lauren Booth & other western Muslim converts
November 5th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Middle East, Uncategorized
Lauren Booth’s conversion and interviews with western converts to Islam in Damascus, Syria, from 2005.
Tags:Islam·islamophobia·lauren booth·middleeast·religion·syria
Emirati health tourism in Thailand
August 16th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Journalism, Middle East, Rest of Asia
Thailand has become an important health tourism destination for Emiratis and other Gulf Arabs who don’t trust their own national health services and who have found it harder to get visas for the US post-9/11.
Tags:Bangkok·Bumrungrad·Emirati·healthcare·hospital·Thailand·tourism·UAE
“New world views from the homes of kind strangers”
June 27th, 2010 · No Comments · China, Journalism, Middle East
New world views from the homes of kind strangers – travel story in The National It was midnight and I was acutely aware of how dodgy I looked prowling from door to door under the watchful eyes of the only other person on the street, a Cantonese woman standing in a pool of light outside [...]
Art lover and exile: Libyan princess Alia al Senussi
March 22nd, 2010 · 6 Comments · Journalism, Middle East
My story in Dubai’s Brownbook magazine about Alia al Senussi, a member of the Libyan royal family in exile. According to her bio: “HRH Princess Alia Idris Al-Senussi was born in Washington DC to a Libyan father and American mother and moved shortly thereafter to Cairo, Egypt. Princess Alia’s father is a member of the [...]
Iran – views from Beijing
March 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · China, Middle East, Uncategorized
Press event last Friday about US and Israeli efforts to get China on board for heavy UN sanctions on Iran over its alleged nuclear programme – something that has “no chance” of happening, according to a Dutch China expert and the International Crisis Group. China may agree to sanctions – but not before it has [...]
Nan Dou Ya Mosque
March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · China, Middle East
Nan Dou Ya Mosque covered with a dusting of snow today
