Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf

Bahraini Jewish parliamentarian Nancy Khedouri told JTA that the protests in her country have been blown out of proportion by the media. At least…

Investors in the Gulf region are getting the jitters as the turmoil in Bahrain brings the political risk enveloping the Middle East closer to…

Who exactly was doing the spying or what they were looking for remains a secret, but the arrest of  a number of people by Oman on suspicion of spying…

When Saudi Arabia first announced plans to open the country to tourism by inviting Western non-Muslims to visit its archaeological sites, vast…

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that while there were recently high level talks between the Turkish Foreign Ministry and…

Arab Gulf states, some of whom were exposed by the WikiLeaks release of US State Department cables as privately urging an American military strike…

THE CONSERVATIVE PROAmerican, Egyptian-Saudi axis, which has traditionally chartered regional Middle East policy, is increasingly being supplanted by…

The waters between Iran and the United Arab Emirates used to be crowded by small cargo vessels carrying goods from the Dubai port to Teheran markets,…

Citizens of the Arab world still have the hardest time of anyone on earth getting visas for international travel, a new survey has found. A report…

It’s an allegation almost too surreal to be real. In a claim reminiscent of the most elaborate Middle East conspiracy theories known to date, a…

Citizens of the Arab world still have the hardest time of anyone on earth getting visas for international travel, a new survey has found. A report by…

How effective have Arab boycotts been? The question is how effective is this new form of boycott, led by individuals and NGOs rather then by…

A THICK DUST STORM blankets the Qatari capital of Doha, obscuring views of the skyscrapers and impeding drivers’ abilities to see the omnipresent…

Muslims are being encouraged to vacation in Turkey this summer to offset the estimated $ 4 0 0 million l o s s caused by Israelis boycotting the…

Online communications operator Skype is setting up its first Middle East base, in an effort to expand its client base, the company announced on…

Relations between Iran and the Gulf states are more strained than ever. Iran is issuing threats and working nonstop to undermine their stability. It…

On the basis of a memo written by the US secretary of defense, The New York Times reported recently that “the United States does not have an…

At its base, it’s a glorified debating forum; that’s how political analyst Shadi Hamid describes the Arab League. The organization has been dubbed a…

Saudi Arabia last week announced the establishment of a renewable energy complex, confirming the country’s interest in nuclear energy. The King…

The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has announced it is setting up a special division that will deal with human rights. Following a…