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Panel Discussion: ISIS, Iraq, & the Gulf States
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ISIS, Iraq, & the Gulf States
A panel discussion with
Dr. Shireen Hunter
Visiting Professor at Georgetown University
Dr. Abbas Kadhim
Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins,…
Saudi Monarchy Plots Sectarian Executions
June 17, 2014
Washington DC -The Saudi Monarchy is planning to execute at least 26 Shia protesters and activists, including children, after a summary trial by an ultra-sectarian court controlled by the Saudi Minister of Interior Mohamed…
Saudi Killer Virus to Hit US and Europe
By Ali AlAhmed
May 2, 2014
Washington DC – Increasing cases of Middle East Repository Syndrome known as MERS have killed more than 20 people this past week in Saudi Arabia and maybe spreading to the United States and Europe in the next…
Politico Magazine: Stop Bowing to Riyadh
April 7, 2014
Washington DC --The Director of the Gulf Institute Ali AlAhmed published an article in Politico Magazine on March 27 to coincide with President Barack Obama.
President Barack Obama travels to meet with Saudi Arabia’s King…
IGA Welcomes New Analyst Rachel Hertzman
The Institute for Gulf Affairs is pleased to welcome Ms. Rachel Hertzman to its roster of experts. Ms. Hertzman will join the Gulf Institute as an Analyst. Additionally, she also works as a freelance writer and consultant. Ms. Hertzman…
Yemen Shifting from Saudi Arabia
By Rachel Hertzman
February 7, 2014
Washington DC - The Houthi rebels territorial gains this past week of Yemen’s Northern region are indicative of Saudi Arabia’s diminishing hegemony in the region and Iran’s rising star—both at the…
Las Doha: Qatar’s Gamble in Syria
Daniel Morillo
Washington D.C.
18 December 2013
While it is widely accepted that “private donors”, aka Qatari officials, are funding the Syrian Al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al Nusra, Qatar has recently begun hedging its bets in the…
New Analyst Joins IGA: Ahmed Abdulhussain
Ahmed Abdulhussain is a policy analyst on Bahrain at the Gulf Institute and head of the American Task Force for Bahrain, New York branch.
Ahmed Abdulhussain is a Law LL.B., from Bahrain. He is a political analyst and…
Joshua Jacobs
Joshua Jacobs is a Gulf Policy Analyst and published columnist at the Institute for Gulf Affairs. Joshua has published and co-authored papers on Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Oman and wrote the timely IGA policy brief on Bahrain. His…