Obama Can Hit Two Birds with One Stone
By Matthew Mainen
As the rightwing Likud party’s Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to assume the Israeli premiership for the second time in his career, he inherits a Middle East drastically different than that inherited during his first…
What Should Obama Say in Riyadh
By Ali Al-Ahmed
Washington DC - President Barack Obama is certainly not going to see the dismembered body of a beheaded convict in the center of the Saudi capital Riyadh, when arrives there today to meet the Saudi king Abdullah. …
Will “No Women, No Play” Be Enough?
By Lauren Sheldon and Emma Sterling March 4, 2011 One day we were average college students working towards our education and the next day we were young professionals working in the midst of a turning point in history. We were ecstatic…
Obama’s Dubious Deal
By Matthew Mainen
March 15, 2011
As the US pursues multilateralism for the Libya situation, it has looked to Saudi Arabia for support. For decades, the US has maintained a tacit policy of disregarding Saudi Arabia’s dismal human…
A Saudi Festival of Segregation
By Ali Al-Ahmed and Ashley Deiana
Early spring in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia brings its fair share of natural wonders. But desert sunrises and shifting dunes aside, spring is also the time of one of the few secular festivals held…
International Participation in Saudi Segregated Festival Harms Women Rights
February 27, 2008
International governments, non-governmental organizations, intellectuals, media outlets, and the United Nations are supporting the Saudi policy of gender apartheid through their participation in an annual Saudi festival…
IHT: Bar countries that ban women athletes
By Ali Al-Ahmed
Monday, May 19, 2008
The procession of the Olympic torch drew protests from Paris to San Francisco over China's treatment of the Tibetan people, but no one has protested another tragedy that is afflicting millions of…
Largest Spanish Newspaper Elpais Features the Gulf Institute
July 11th, 2008 - Spain’s most widely circulated newspaper, El País (The Country), gave full page coverage yesterday to the issue of sexual discrimination in the International Olympic Games, which the Institute for Gulf Affairs had…
Gulf Institute Kicks off (No Women. No Play.) Campaign in Washington DC Saturday
Contact Anum Khan (202-466-9500)
No Women. No Play.: A Women's Rights Campaign to Allow Saudi Women to participate in the 2012 Olympic Games
Email: nowomennoplay@gulfinstitute.org
http://twitter.com/NOWOMENNOPLAY
Location: DuPont…
Ailene Voisin: IOC cowers as some nations continue to ban women
The scene initially was niggling, troubling, then so much worse than that. Frankly, it was outrageous, with minimal cover provided by the flags and the uniforms and the procession of beaming, glistening faces. All those nations. All…