Publications and Expert Comments

  • Consultative Council Elections, 15 October 2011

    Election Report
    Oman

    Oman’s Consultative Council elections were the third with universal suffrage to be held in the country, after those of 2003 and 2007. They took place following popular protests earlier in the year - the widest the Sultanate had experienced since the end of the Dhofar war in the 1970s. In a country where political associations are banned and civil society is notably less organised than in Bahrain or Kuwait, the ‘Omani Spring' was marked by the death of two protesters in the Northern town of Sohar in February and April.

Election Report
Bahrain
Nov 10 2011
Election Report
Bahrain
Jul 26 2011