[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.]
Regional and International Relations
Egypt lawyer Gizawi to get jail and lashes in Saudi Arabia A news report on the sentencing of the Egyptian human rights lawyer on charges of “drug trafficking,” on BBC.
Obama meets new Saudi interior minister at White House A news report on the meeting between Barack Obama and Prince Mohammed bin Nayef at the White House, on Reuters.
Readout of the President’s Meeting with Saudi Minister of Interior Prince Mohammed bin Nayef A statement posted on the website of the White House on the meeting between Obama and Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in the Oval Office.
Behind UAE Detentions, Fears of a Transnational Brotherhood Plot Rori Donaghy writes on the treatment of seventy-seven Emirati men arrested in July and the intimidation of their wives, and argues that this treatment reflects the authorities’ fear of the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in the region, on Al-Akhbar English.
Saudi Arabia to grant $100m to Palestinians A news report on the financial grant made by Saudi Arabia to the Palestinian government, which is struggling financially after Israel decided to withhold Palestinian tax revenues, on Al Jazeera English.
Reports and Opinions
Executed Sri Lankan maid’s mother refuses Saudi money A news report on the refusal of Rizana Nafeek’s mother to take money from Saudi well-wishers, in The Daily Star.
Brookings’ Bruce Riedel urges intensified US support for Saudi despots Glenn Greenwald analyzes a memorandum to President Obama written by Bruce Riedel, a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and currently a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, urging the support of “the world’s last absolute monarchy,” in The Guardian.
Repression in the Gulf: A mirage of rights An article on the political scenes in Gulf states, in The Economist.
Saudi women on Shura Council Rashid Abul-Samh analyzes King Abdullah’s decree to appoint thirty women to the Shura Council, in Al-Ahram Weekly.
Crisis in Yemen
At least 13 militants killed in Yemen in blast and drone attack A news report on the death of ten suspected al-Qaida bomb makers in a house, and of three “militants” in drone strikes, on Reuters.
End of assassinations in Yemen? Nasser Arrabyee speculates whether the arrest of a terrorist cell and the trial of ten al-Qaeda suspects, who are thought to be responsible for the wave of assassinations of soldiers and officers last year in Yemen, will put an end to assassinations, in Al-Ahram Weekly.
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