Sawsan Al Shaer
Sawsan Al Shaer

Sawsan Al Shaer is a Bahraini writer and journalist. She tweets under the handle @sawsanalshaer

Is Hamad bin Khalifa obstructing Qatar’s return to Gulf fold?

We wait for the day when Qatar returns as an Arab country to its strategic depth and Gulf fold. We hope the day comes when we celebrate this return together.However, this cannot be achieved by voicing...

Qatar and Iran are now united

We are now playing with open cards. Qatar and Iran have united in every place where they funded warring groups.When Qatar supported al-Qaeda and al-Nusra Front in Syria, they actually fought popular...

All has become clear now in the Qatar crisis

It’s interesting how the pace of exposing Qatar’s scandals has accelerated. Pandora’s Box was suddenly opened, revealing all the evils since 1996 and until today. There is...

Late mediation makes Doha sink further

The delay in finalizing the Qatari problem escalates the situation and makes us more distant with Qatar. The more mediators renew their efforts, the more Qatar thinks it is right and that everyone...

People in Qatar should derive lessons from Bahrain

The leaders of the Vilayat Al Faqih (Guardian of the jurist) group in Bahrain led their people to a historical loss that they both paid for. Meanwhile, Qatar’s leaders are leading their innocent...

Will Qatar save itself or ‘the project’?

The quartet alliance, which consists of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, has gone beyond defending itself against the “new Middle East project” and has entered...

Iran-Qatar rapprochement and fueling of terrorism

Last week, security forces arrested members of a Bahraini institution called the Manama Human Rights Observatory that works under the pretext of defending human rights. This incident raised a series...

Shock Qatari people are facing has been in the making for decades

They are shocked, and not only because of the firm stand by the boycotting countries, but also because of the wide reaction of the Gulf people which supported the boycott, if one goes by what is being...