Mai Yamani's most recent book is Cradle of Islam.
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Mai Yamani
Commentaries by Mai Yamani
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Saudi Arabia’s Old Regime Grows Older
LONDON – The contrast between the deaths, within two days of each other, of Libya’s Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bi…
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Saudi Arabia’s Decade of Denial
LONDON – Saudi Arabia may not have been directly implicated in the conspiracy that killed more than 3,000 people on September 11, 2001, but …
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The Kingdom Betrayed?
LONDON – The old saying “lonely is the head that wears the crown” has literally taken on new meaning for Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah. Not o…
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Are Saudi Women Next?
LONDON – The unexpected visibility and assertiveness of women in the revolutions unfolding across the Arab world – in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya,…
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Bin Laden’s Ghost
LONDON – Osama bin Laden’s death in his Pakistani hiding place is like the removal of a tumor from the Muslim world. But aggressive follow-u…
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Deconstructing Saleh
LONDON – Ali Abdullah Saleh is finished as Yemen’s president. Popular democratic protests that started on a small scale in mid-February outs…
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The Kingdom and the Afghan Chaos
LONDON – In his quest to stabilize his country, Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, dressed in white robes, arrived last week in Mecca on…
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Rescuing Yemen
LONDON – Yemen has suddenly joined Afghanistan and Pakistan as a risk to global security. Indeed, it is increasingly seen as a nascent fail…
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The Middle East’s Democratic F-Words
LONDON – The Middle East continues to have the highest concentration of dictatorships in the world. But 2009 was the year that democracy app…
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The Terror Next Door
LONDON – In a prominent hadith, the Prophet Mohammed said: “If disorder threatens, take refuge in Yemen.” The Prophet was referring to the…
