sheikhdoms

Selective support for dictatorships in the Middle East or in the oil sheikhdoms should be rapidly reconsidered lest these policies raise legitimate questions about the West's true support for the democratization process in the Arab world.

Nathan Gardels: The Arab Spring After Osama: Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs. Tariq Ramadan Nathan Gardels 2011

Through new media the young compare their circumstances unfavorably with those in nearby Gulf sheikhdoms and the West.

From Tunis to Cairo to Riyadh? Karen Elliott House 2011

The world has seemingly fallen into something most similar to the Middle Ages, "with Asian empires, Western militaries, Middle Eastern sheikhdoms, magnetic city-states, wealthy multinational corporations, elite clans, religious zealots, tribal hordes, and potent media seething in an ever more unpredictable and dangerous storm."

Christopher Tucker: What Americans Can Do About the End of Their Ruling Days Christopher Tucker 2011

Selective support for dictatorships in the Middle East or in the oil sheikhdoms should be rapidly reconsidered lest these policies raise legitimate questions about the West's true support for the democratization process in the Arab world.

Nathan Gardels: The Arab Spring After Osama: Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs. Tariq Ramadan Nathan Gardels 2011

The world has seemingly fallen into something most similar to the Middle Ages, "with Asian empires, Western militaries, Middle Eastern sheikhdoms, magnetic city-states, wealthy multinational corporations, elite clans, religious zealots, tribal hordes, and potent media seething in an ever more unpredictable and dangerous storm."

Christopher Tucker: What Americans Can Do About the End of Their Ruling Days Christopher Tucker 2011

JFL, the countries are majority Christian (or Jewish in the case of Israel) but they are secular states, not religious sheikhdoms that are ruled according to Biblical law.

Matthew Yglesias » The Security Line Threat 2009

Its influence also penetrates deep into western Afghanistan, and its support for resistance movements in the Gulf sheikhdoms is said to be growing by the year.

Simon Jenkins: Why Is Britain Ramping Up Sanctions Against Iran? Simon Jenkins 2012

Its influence also penetrates deep into western Afghanistan, and its support for resistance movements in the Gulf sheikhdoms is said to be growing by the year.

Simon Jenkins: Why Is Britain Ramping Up Sanctions Against Iran? Simon Jenkins 2012

But everyone who spoke to me about the port as a business hub to rival Dubai (notwithstanding its current economic troubles) neglected a key fact: the Gulf sheikhdoms, and Dubai in particular, have wise, effective, and wholly legitimate governments.

Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

But everyone who spoke to me about the port as a business hub to rival Dubai (notwithstanding its current economic troubles) neglected a key fact: the Gulf sheikhdoms, and Dubai in particular, have wise, effective, and wholly legitimate governments.

Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009