Israa al-Fass It was on Saturday, August 30, 2014, exactly at 23:00 when Bahrain’s foreign minister Khalid bin Ahmad Al Khalifah, skimming the latest tweets published on Twitter, stopped at some tweet posted by a Qatari activist. In her tweet, the activist cited Qatari academic Mohammed al-Musfer as saying that ...
In the fall of 2015, the United Arab Emirates’ ambassador to the United States, Youssef Al Otaiba, sent a concerned email to a group of high-level officials in his government, stressing that the war in Yemen was becoming a public-relations nightmare. The Obama administration, he told leadership back home, remained ...