Self-censorship: Bahrainis’ Refuge from the Guillotine of Government Pursuit

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Gulf: Don’t believe the hype, GCC states are as repressive as they’ve ever been

“Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha”
Conversation with the Curator
Join us for a conversation between HIAA President, Prof. Kishwar Rizvi (Professor in the History of Art, Islamic Art and Architecture, Yale University) and Dr. Massumeh Farhad (Senior Associate Director for Research, Chief Curator and The Ebrahimi Family Curator of Persian, Arab, and Turkish Art, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art) about the ongoing exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, (December 18, 2021 – May 15, 2022).
Friday, May 6, 2022
12 pm EST on Zoom
Register here

‘Reducing Middle East tensions potentially lessens sectarianism and opens doors for women
Two separate developments involving improved relations between Sunni and Shiite Muslims and women’s sporting rights demonstrate major shifts in how rivalry for leadership of the Muslim world and competition to define Islam in the 21st century is playing out in a world in which Middle Eastern states can no longer depend on the United States coming to their defence.’
James M Dorsey
9 October 2021

‘Taliban surge in north Afghanistan sends thousands fleeing’
Associated Press, 13.7.21