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Bill Law

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Bill Law is a Sony award-winning journalist. He joined the BBC in 1995 and since 2002 has reported extensively from the Middle East. He has travelled to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia many times. In 2003 he was one of the first journalists to cover the beginnings of the insurgency that engulfed Iraq. His documentary The Gulf: Armed & Dangerous which aired in late 2010 anticipated the revolutions that became the Arab Spring. He then covered the uprisings in Egypt, Libya and Bahrain. He has also reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Before leaving the BBC in April 2014, Mr Law was the corporation’s Gulf analyst. He now works as a freelance journalist focusing on the Gulf

 

Items by Bill Law

  • An extraordinary tale of courage from a woman in jail in the UAE

    It is a shocking two minutes and fifty-five seconds of audio that was smuggled out of Abu Dhabi’s Al Wathba prison. In the audio, a young female prisoner – Maryam Al Baloushi – recounts a grim story of abuse, threats and coercion at the hands of Emirati security officers...

  • The UAE and the Washington Post: Democracy dies in hypocrisy

    If I was the Washington Post’s Ishaan Tharoor I would be a trifle annoyed. I enjoy his “Today’s World View” column on a daily basis. He is a very talented journalist who writes incisively, wittily and sometimes sardonically about issues of concern such as the humanitarian disaster that is...

  • Jared Kushner is wrong; collective punishment will not lead to peace

    Last week, exactly 25 years after the signing of the Oslo Peace Accord, Jared Kushner commented on the punitive measures that his father-in-law, the President of the United States, had taken against the Palestinian people. “There were,” said Kushner, “too many false realities that were created — that people...

  • Bahrain’s economic crisis is an urgent sign that change must come

    The warning signs are clear and unmistakable: the Kingdom of Bahrain is in serious financial difficulty and its economy is tumbling into crisis. The country’s bond ratings are listed as junk. It’s gross debt as a percentage of GDP stands at 94.9 per cent, nearly four times the Gulf...

  • Nabeel Rajab: a true patriot of Bahrain

    On 4 June this year the Bahrain High Criminal Court of Appeal upheld a five-year sentence handed out to the prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab for tweets he had made that were critical of the government. Nabeel Rajab is my friend. He was arrested in June 2016 and...

  • Exploited and abandoned, the Palestinians are truly the betrayed

    Writing in the New York Times less than a week after 61 Palestinians had been shot dead by Israeli soldiers, and nearly 3,000 were wounded, the political editor of the Jewish Journal, Shmuel Rosner, had this to say in an opinion piece entitled “Israel Needs to Protect Its Borders:...