Saudi Arabia Archives

Saudi Arabia moves against Qatar. The Newest Crisis in the Middle East, Explained

Saudi Arabia and its close allies in the region moved against Qatar, cutting off sea and air travel and moving to isolate their fellow sunni Gulf country. Enter: the next big crisis in the Middle East. Like Saudi Arabia and...

Trump’s First Foreign Trip Will Take Him to Saudi Arabia, Israel and Europe. Here’s What You Need to Know

As I’m typing, the White House is busy doing damage control over news that Donald Trump revealed sensitive information to the Russians when he met wth the Russian ambassador and foreign minister the day after he fired the FBI director....

These Videos about “Male Guardianship” in Saudi Arabia Have Gone Viral

A female doctor is barred from a medical conference. An abused wife is forced to return to her violent home. A prisoner is kept behind bars beyond the expiry of her sentence. Who is controlling these women? Their sons, fathers...

How One Senator is Trying to Change America’s Alliance with Saudi Arabia

Senator Chris Murphy wants to change a bedrock relationship in US foreign policy. In April this year he introduced legislation to restrict arms sales to Saudi Arabia over that country’s conduct in the war in Yemen. The Saudi-led air campaign...

One Way to Stop the Unrelenting Deaths of Civilians in Yemen? An Arms Embargo on Saudi Arabia

The conflict in Yemen may not routinely make headlines around the globe. But it is grueling on, and increasingly becoming an ugly conflict in which the basic laws of war are routinely ignored. The worst offender is Saudi Arabia, which...

Episode 95: Daniel Byman Explains the USA-Saudi Relationship. (And Much More!)

Dan Byman was fresh out of school when he took a job as an analyst for the CIA. Byman was a generalist, and they put him on a backwater Persian gulf desk in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Then...

ISIS is Another Example of Saudi Arabia’s Myopic Foreign Policy

Another example of blowback

Saudi Arabia’s Big Security Council Blunder

Why Saudi Arabia's rejection of a UN Security Council seat was a mistake

Baby Steps: Saudi Arabia Finally Lets Female Athletes Compete At Olympics

The Saudi Government will finally let women compete at the Olympics. But don't expect female athletes to turn out in droves in London this summer.

Saudi Arabia moves against Qatar. The Newest Crisis in the Middle East, Explained

Trump’s First Foreign Trip Will Take Him to Saudi Arabia, Israel and Europe. Here’s What You Need to Know

These Videos about “Male Guardianship” in Saudi Arabia Have Gone Viral

How One Senator is Trying to Change America’s Alliance with Saudi Arabia

One Way to Stop the Unrelenting Deaths of Civilians in Yemen? An Arms Embargo on Saudi Arabia

Episode 95: Daniel Byman Explains the USA-Saudi Relationship. (And Much More!)

ISIS is Another Example of Saudi Arabia’s Myopic Foreign Policy

Saudi Arabia’s Big Security Council Blunder

Baby Steps: Saudi Arabia Finally Lets Female Athletes Compete At Olympics

UNAIDS and the Millennium Villages

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 5 – Bathing in Yakawlang

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 6 – The Legacy of War Crimes

The Obama Agenda at the United Nations