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Look Who’s Talking: Sectarianism, between Iraq and Saudi Arabia
Contact: Christopher Denbow
T:202-466-9500
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Washington, DC – The Institute for Gulf Affairs released a comparative analysis on sectarianism and marginalization in Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
This 20-page analysis…
Policy Brief: The Old Men of Arabia
The Institute for Gulf Affairs has learned that Saudi King Abdulaziz is traveling to New York City for medical treatment at New York Presbyterian Hospital after a brief visit to Morocco. The 76 year old Crown Prince Salman will be the…
Policy: Saudi Foreign Policy after Saud AlFaisal
August 21, 2012
The Institute for Gulf Affairs has learned that Saudi foreign Minister Saud AlFaisal has postponed his plans to travel to the United States for treatment due to serious illness. His health condition appears to be…
Political Risk Assessment: Saudi Pipeline Fire and the Arab Spring
BY ANDREW BOND
March 7, 2012
WASHINGTON DC-- Last Thursday’s small fire near the Abqaiq-Ras Tanura pipeline network in Qatif, Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, showcases the vulnerabilities of the world oil system. This incident is…
Policy Brief: Saudi Crown Prince Serious Illness Complicates Succession Matters Again
By Joshua Jacobs
Washington DC. March 6, 2012
Royal Pains
The riskiness of having an aging pool of candidates, long a concern about Saudi Arabia, finally appears to be catching up to the al-Saud. More and more, it appears as though the…
Policy Watch: US Missed Opportunity on WTO
By Logan Barclift, Analyst IGA
Washington DC - In an ironic twist, two days before the fourth anniversary of the attacks of 9-11 the Bush administration signed a trade agreement with Saudi Arabia, home of the majority of the hijackers…
Saudis Release Leading Reformers
By IGA Staff
Newly Crowned King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has just issued a royal pardon releasing three leading liberal reformers, one of their lawyers and a religious scholar. Drs. Abdullah Al-Hamed and Matrook Al- Faleh, Poet Ali…
Time to Test King Abdullah
Fahd has been practically dead for 10 years, but his actual death is an opportunity to demand wide-ranging internal reforms from the ruling tribe of Al-Saud. King Abdullah is not the reformer the Bush administration and many American…
Policy Brief: Bahrain on Verge of Turmoil after Rape of Activist
Washington DC - Following the assault and rape of a young Bahraini activist, from the unemployed commission, two nights ago by the Bahrain security forces, hundreds of Bahrainis went to the streets and chanted anti government slogans.…
State of Deception: The Continuation of Saudi Arabia’s Curriculum of Hate
Contact: Joshua Haber and Adam Rozell
(202) 466-9500
Washington DC - The Institute for Gulf Affairs has released a report comparing the current edition of Saudi textbooks to statements made by the regime, emphasizing the deception…