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American Vice President Kamala Harris, who may end up the first woman elected as president of the United States, ignored a slavery case involving the Saudi ruling family and a black woman, when she served as California attorney general.

JOIN US FOR AN EVENT ON TUESDAY, APRIL 12! The Institute for Gulf Affairs is hosting a webinar on the truce in Yemen where Yemeni, Saudi Arabian, and American panelists will discuss their different perspectives on the truce and analyze the…

The demolitions are being done by the Jeddah Central Development Company (JCDC). Large parts of Jeddah are facing an uncertain future after abrupt and large-scale demolitions left more than half a million people displaced over the past…

Marzooq Mashaan, a Sorbonne-trained academic, have joined forces with many inside the country to launch the protests to force the al-Saud family to give way to a broad-based government.

Fahd bin Turki bin AbdulAziz, a nephew of King Salman, was sentenced to death for treason by attempting a coup to remove King Salman and his son Mohamed bin Salman (MBS), who serves as the minister of defense and the country’s de facto…

President Biden’s call for a full review of U.S.-Saudi relations is the single most consequential act by the U.S. Government regarding this core alliance in the past thirty years. The timing is significant, and many Congressional…

Saudi Arabia imprisoned an aid worker for running an anti-government Twitter page. His sister says it shows MBS is testing Biden's pledge to be tough on the kingdom.

The jailing of a dissident and two lawsuits reveal Twitter’s complicity with MBS’s dictatorship.

The Institute for Gulf Affairs is pleased to report that public and private highlighting of glaring bigotry and incitement in official Saudi platforms has recently led to specific improvements. While much more remains to be accomplished for…

Another American being held is Salah al-Haidar, son of women’s rights activist Aziza al-Yousef. Loujain al-Hathloul, the sister of a U.S. citizen, has been detained and tortured for over two years, ironically having been arrested for her…