Catherine Shakdam

Catherine Shakdam

New Eastern Outlook

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What Wahhabism Looks Like From Up Close And Personal

How many times will we need to be reminded of the horrors of Wahhabism – that cult, which for lack of better words murdered and pillaged its way to...

Catherine Shakdam

New Eastern Outlook

30 17.02.2019

Broken Democracy — America detains US-born journalist without charge

“… Iran does it too!” When confronted with news that FBI had detained US-born journalist Melanie Franklin (better known as Marzieh Hashemi)...

Catherine Shakdam

New Eastern Outlook

20 26.01.2019

Saudi Arabia Declares War on Free Speech and Civil Liberties

Saudi Arabia has done it again … that is to land itself in the middle of a controversy that exposes not just the dictatorial devolution of its...

Catherine Shakdam

New Eastern Outlook

30 12.01.2019

What is Left of Saudi Arabia’s Friendship with the United States?

If 2018 should have told us anything it is that geopolitical alliances exist to be broken – especially when the United States is involved. A fickle...

Catherine Shakdam

New Eastern Outlook

20 29.12.2018

Why Supporting Armed Dissidence Could Dissolve Nations’ Territorial Integrity

If anything is to be learned from Jamal Khashoggi’s murder is that moral relativism is a plague that has come to pollute not only the public debate...

Catherine Shakdam

New Eastern Outlook

20 23.11.2018