A roundup of China-GCC stories from the last week, including Saudi AI, UAE flying taxis, and an Omani delegation in Beijing. Subscribe to The China-MENA Newsletter, and please share it within your networks to help me get the word out: open.substack.com/pub/chinamen...
This week was dominated by final exams for me, but there were some interesting China-GCC stories that I was watching. One that Bloomberg reported and hasnât drawn as much notice as Iâd have expected w...
In her contribution on 'the problem of literacy', @linabenabdallah.bsky.socialwww.duckofminerva.com/2024/04/inte...
There is no shortage of knowledge produced in various traditions and diverse scholarly communities. There is no lack of theoretical traditions and political thought that come from non-Euro-AmericanâŚ
If Putin finishes his new term, he will become the longest-serving Russian leader since Catherine the Great in the 1700s @nytimes.com
Not a fan of the wording in this blurb, but apparently this guy was promising resource rights to financial backers, lining up NY PR firms, and checking out weapons in AZ (that was a federal sting) all as he acted as a âgo-toâ guy on S. Sudan policy in the US.
"We are shocked by reports of the deliberate targeting and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge, or while fleeing." t.co/w9oZtm9maz
GENEVA (19 February 2024) â UN experts* today expressed alarm over credible allegations of egregious human rights violations to which Palestinian women and girls continue to be subjected in the Gaza S...
Yu Guangzhong ä˝ĺ ä¸, the great poet of the Chinese diaspora who spent most of his life in Taiwan, passed away six years ago today. Here is his best known work (somewhat to his chagrin) - âNostalgiaâ éć - a small poem of longing, in his own handwriting, alongside my quick translation. #everynightapoem
This memorial in Jenin, West Bank was made from remnants of Palestinian ambulances attacked by Israel. Israel destroyed it last night (after having destroyed a memorial to Shereen Abu Aqleh).
