General topics 

August 2010

Taxation and representation (24 August 2010)

The trouble with Islamism (5 August 2010)

A burqa for the BlackBerry (5 August 2010)

July 2010

Arabs and vegetarianism (30 July 2010)

Tweeting the revolution (25 July 2010)

Journey from left to right (24 July 2010)

Monitoring homophobia (22 July 2010)

Political gangrene (17 July 2010)

CNN and the new McCarthyism (9 July 2010)

RIP: Nasr Abu Zayd (6 July 2010)

Muslim Brotherhood taking over Europe? (5 July 2010)

Failed States Index (1 July 2010)

June 2010

Zionist 'gay workshop' cancelled (26 June 2010)

Pinkwashing Israel (17 June 2010)

Where next for the Middle East? (10 June 2010)

Arab Free Press Forum (3) (8 June 2010)

Arab Free Press Forum (2 (6 June 2010))

Arab Free Press Forum (1) (6 June 2010)

Collateral damage (1 June 2010)

May 2010

The power of Facebook (25 May 2010)

Israel and the Bomb (24 May 2010)

Promoting democracy (23 May 2010)

The great unwatched (14 May 2010)

Child labour in the Middle East (10 May 2010)

Britain and the Middle East (6 May 2010)

April 2010

Fred Halliday, RIP (27 April, 2010)

BBC tackles an Arab taboo (25 April, 2010)

The future of Arabic (2) (19 April, 2010)

The future of Arabic (19 April, 2010)

Is Arabic dying? (18 April, 2010)

Middle East bookshelf: Yemen (10 April 2010)

Randa's story (4 April 2010)

March 2010

Middle East bookshelf: the final list (29 March 2010)

Middle East bookshelf: society and politics (27 March 2010)

Middle East bookshelf: Islam (26 March 2010)

Middle East bookshelf: fiction (24 March 2010)

Middle East bookshelf: history (23 March 2010)

Did the neocons get anything right? (22 March 2010)

A Middle East bookshelf (1) (20 March 2010)

Middle East for beginners (19 March 2010)

Murdoch, Israel and Avatar (17 March 2010)

Helping or hindering internet freedom? (13 March 2010)

Arabs and the death penalty (12 March 2010)

The economics of free expression (10 March 2010)

But is it fiction? (3 March 2010)

February 2010

Civil society: independent or not? (23 February 2010)

Headbanging against repression (22 February 2010)

Homosexuality a disease, say doctors (18 February 2010)

Is anybody watching? (15 February 2010)

The do-it-yourself revolution (11 February 2010)

Arabs, gay rights and modernity (5 February 2010)

Chaos and the Arab state (3 February 2010)

Junblatt versus Jumblatt (2 February 2010)

Arabic and the Roman alphabet (1 February 2010)

January 2010

Clinton, Arabs and the internet (23 January 2010)

Beware the militant engineers (2 January 2010)

December 2009

US pours more money into al-Hurra (29 December 2009)

The internet's snowball effect (28 December 2009)

Bored with al-Qaeda (28 December 2009)

When is a dictator not a dictator? (18 December 2009)

Writers in search of readers (18 December 2009)

Orientalism in reverse (13 December 2009)

Self-righteous agonising over Muslims (6 December 2009)

Minarets, culture and creed (3 December 2009)

November 2009

Reflections on Eid al-Adha (28 November 2009)

What's Really Wrong ... (28 November 2009)

Arabic and information technology (21 November 2009)

Palin’s peace process (20 November 2009)

With respect, Mr President ... (18 November 2009)

Shielding corruption (16 November 2009)

Lining up against the Shia (12 November 2009)

Middle East International is back (10 November 2009)

Reforming Arab education (5 November 2009)

The Arab Knowledge Report (3 November 2009)

Book review (2 November 2009)

Dangers of slamming the door (2 November 2009)

October 2009

A reply to The Angry Arab (31 October 2009)

The state of Arab knowledge (30 October 2009)

Undermining the climate talks (23 October 2009)

Arab winds of change (23 October 2009)

Arab press freedom: a sorry sight (22 October 2009)

September 2009

Running dry (22 September 2009)

Orientalism revisited (20 September 2009)

Ramadan rebels (18 September 2009)

Bin Laden's latest message (15 September 2009)

Islamists and violence (12 September 2009)

Motives of the suicide bombers (11 September 2009)

August 2009

What Thomas Friedman reads (27 August 2009)

Religion and the search for security (25 August 2009)

Arabic slang goes online (23 August 2009)

Searching the internet in Arabic (22 August 2009)

Bloggers and journalists (19 August 2009)

Religion and development (17 August 2009)

What's really wrong (15 August 2009)

Keep off the grass (15 August 2009)

Censorsing the internet (14 August 2009)

Arab science fiction (12 August 2009)

How to be good at Arabic (10 August 2009)

Falconry: an ignoble sport (9 August 2009)

A step forward for workers' rights (8 August 2009)

Arabic web addresses are coming (6 August 2009)

Searching for sex in Ramadan (3 August 2009)

July 2009

A question of citizenship (31 July 2009)

The voice of China – in Arabic (30 July 2009)

They're coming to get you (29 July 2009)

With friends like these (27 July 2009)

Arabs and the hymen (26 July 2009)

Security, but not as we know it (22 July 2009)

Shock of the new media (15 July 2009)

The boys are in town (15 July 2009)

Swine flu and the hajj (12 July 2009)

A female pearl diver (11 July 2009)

Sex news (10 July 2009) 

Egyptian floozies (9 July 2009)

The Arabic blogosphere (8 July 2009)