WAMU Covers Women To Drive Rally
June 15, 2011.
Patrick Madden reports. Listen Here.
"Dressed in a pink shirt and armed with a bullhorn, Tigh Barry, a protester from San Francisco, easily attracts the attention of one motorist driving by when he shouts for them to pull…
WJLA: Women Protest Saudi Driving Ban
June 16, 2011
WJLA covers a protest outside the Saudi Embassy in Washington, DC in support of the June 17th initiative.
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Ali Al-Ahmed on US-Saudi Relations
June 8, 2011
The director of the Gulf Institute, Ali Al-Ahmed, was recently part of a panel on NPR's "Diane Rehm Show."
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The Crumbling State of the Saleh Regime
6/7/11
By Joshua Jacobs
As observers wait to see if the second ceasefire in less than a week will hold in Yemen it has become clear that President Saleh, who is now being treated for his injuries in Saudi Arabia, and his allies…
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…
Yemen Burns to Al-Qaeda’s Delight
By Joshua Jacobs
May 26, 2011
For the fifth straight day heavy fighting gripped Yemen’s capital of Sana’a as fighters loyal to the head of the powerful Hashid tribal confederation Sheik Sadiq al-Ahmar battled security forces loyal to…
Blunder in Bahrain
By Joshua Jacobs
June 1, 2011
There is no country affected by the Arab Spring that the US has made more mistakes and miscalculations in than Bahrain. Though King Hamad announced that he would lift the state of emergency as promised on…
Shifty Saleh Brings Yemen to the Brink
By Joshua Jacobs
May 24, 2011
Time has run out for Yemen’s embattled strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh. On Monday in the firmest statement yet from the Obama administration Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded that President Saleh stand…
American Praising of Saudi Despots is Counterproductive
Oct 13, 2009
By Kate McMahon
Washington DC - I am perplexed by the level of excitement surrounding the opening of King Abdullah University this week. The silliness reminds me of the contestants in the TV program, "The Price is Right."…
NRO: Hide and Seek
Aug 3, 2009By Nina Shea and Ali al-AhmedFor nearly 25 years, the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA), the Virginia school founded by royal decree of Saudi King Fahd in 1984, immersed students of its Islamic-studies curriculum in the same Wahhabi…