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Conscription, Mercenaries And Cooperation With Israel Keeping The Peace By Preparing For War In The Gulf

The most militarised region in the world and home to some of the most volatile conflicts in the contemporary era, every state in the Middle East’s armed forces and military policy is forever developing and reforming. While Eg...

by Catherine Smyth

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F1 and Domestic Politics: Should it Matter?

The F1 world exists in a bubble of its own. Although highly political, its politics are usually internal, and as such the domestic politics of the host nation rarely rates a mention. Granted, (by and large, with exceptions of c...

by Yassmin Abdel-Magied

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ISIS Advances In Iraq Echoed In Bahrain

Top Bahrain government officials took to Twitter to show what is being perceived as support for the advances of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a splinter group of the terror organisation Al Qaeda, in Iraq. On June ...

by Global Voices

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Regional Reactions To The Iran Nuclear Deal

As Iran’s long standing sworn “nemesis”, the Israeli reaction, voiced through Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, denouncing the P5+1 Iran nuclear deal, claiming that the “agreement has made the world more dangerous�...

by Oscar Isham

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What is Sport and Where is it Located? Lessons from Bahrain

As Formula One thankfully revs up its engines in preparation for a return to the less controversial shores of Western Europe, the Western media’s hue and cry over the Bahrain grand prix has been reduced to a low roar. Discuss...

by Jed Fazakarley

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Iran and the Arab Uprisings

Ever since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has tried to cast itself as the head of the radical camp in the Middle East. Iran’s foreign policy did not lose its revolutionary zeal through the years. Iranian support for radical mov...

by Maged Mandour

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Impending Water Crisis In The Gulf?

Economic development, rapidly increasing populations and global warming are making the supply of fresh water one of the greatest challenges facing the states of the Arabian Gulf. The countries of the Arabian Gulf are famed for ...

by Eoghan Burke

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On F1 and Bahrain

Last weekend was the Bahrain Grand Prix. Normally, this would pass the majority of people by. But, due to the protests, infringements of human rights and other symptoms of the ‘Arab Spring’, more people than normal have bee...

by Alex Stockler

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Conscription, Mercenaries And Cooperation With Israel Keeping The Peace By Preparing For War In The Gulf

F1 and Domestic Politics: Should it Matter?

ISIS Advances In Iraq Echoed In Bahrain

Regional Reactions To The Iran Nuclear Deal

What is Sport and Where is it Located? Lessons from Bahrain

Iran and the Arab Uprisings

Impending Water Crisis In The Gulf?

On F1 and Bahrain

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