We from the “West” are never tired of telling the world how important human rights are to us. But only as long as our own prosperity is not threatened. How else could we explain the fact that we use our tax money to support ex-dictators like Mubarak or Gaddafi and still-active autocrats like Erdogan? Or rather, that we can use
Practicing tolerance to ambiguity: this is how “Twelve week at Riad” that is the name of the book written by the German journalist Susanne Koebl. The subheading could go like: “Why the West believes more in lucrative orders than human rights”. Instead it is as follows: “Saudi-Arabia between dictatorship and breakup”. Is this really a question of either … or?
The Arab Human Development Reports (brief: ADHR) are being published by the United Nations, however they are written by independent Arabic intellectuals and academics. The United Nations state that the reports are autonomous written by a representative group of selected representatives of the region, self-critical and kept in perspective. The results are completed by an opinion poll in four Arabic