Gulf Institute

By Emily Pinderski June 24, 2015 Despite FIFA’s beleaguered image in recent weeks, Women’s World Cup in Canada is attracting global attention as it celebrates the hard work of women athletes everywhere. Football is the world’s sport and…

By Akhil Shah Washington DC -The terrorist bombing of the Imam Al-Sadiq Mosque in Kuwait City took the lives of at least twenty-six Kuwaiti worshipers. The Arabian Peninsula branch of ISIS has claimed responsibility, and has promised that…

May 20, 2015 By Ali AlAhmed President Obama hosted a historical summit, the first of its kind between a US president and all six Gulf monarchs. The question to ask is: to what end? Will it be limited to the three stated issues of…

Monday, May, 11, 2015 Washington, DC – The Institute for Gulf Affairs is releasing an exclusive investigation showing the White House is set to host several egregiously anti-Semitic newspaper editors from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf…

Washington DC - CNN published an article by the director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs Ali AlAhmed regarding the Saudi-led war against Yemen. What Saudi Arabia wants in Yemen (CNN)Supported by American intelligence and supplied…

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April 29, 2015 Call us at (202)-466-9500 Washington DC --The Institute for Gulf Affairs has launched the American Task Force for Yemen (ATFY), a working group called to end the Saudi-led war in Yemen that is taking a devastating…

April 16, 2015 Washington DC –Following the hasty United Nations Security Council’s approval of Resolution 2216 on Yemen, an investigation by the Institute for Gulf Affairs found that the resolution was based on false grounds that…

February 3, 2015 By Ali AlAhmed and Sayan Das Gupta Washington D.C. - Days after the passing of his brother King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, the new King Salman engineered the largest cabinet shake-up in recent Saudi history. The move…

By Ossob Mohamud - - Sunday, December 14, 2014 Loujain Al-Hathlool. This is the name that every woman in the West should know. Loujain is a young woman who drove her car trying to cross into Saudi Arabia but was stopped and then…