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Mar 10, 2017

Saudi’s Purist Salafi Drive into Southeast Asia

By H.A. Hellyer

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud is currently engaged in a tour in Asia, which will last about a month. Five out of six of the countries he is visiting are Muslim majority nations (the sixth, China, has a significant and ancient Muslim minority population). While there is undoubtedly a financial and economic aspect […]

Saudi Arabia

In the News

Feb 24, 2017

Sirgany in World Policy Journal: Islands Apart: Why the Saudi-Egypt Alliance is on the Rocks

By Sarah El Sirgany

Read the full article here.

North Africa
Saudi Arabia

Event Recap

Feb 13, 2017

Challenges to the Yemeni Peace Process

By Hariri Center

The Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East hosted a panel discussion on February 13, 2017 with H.E. Khaled Alyemany, permanent representative of Yemen to the United Nations; Ms. Nadwa Al-Dawsari, nonresident senior fellow at the Project on Middle East Democracy; and Hariri Center Nonresident Fellow Mr. Mohammed Alyahya and Nonresident Senior Fellow Dr. […]

Saudi Arabia
Yemen

In the News

Feb 11, 2017

Ashooh Joins Al Jazeera to Discuss Saudi-US Partnership Against Terrorism

By Jessica Ashooh

Watch full interview here.

Saudi Arabia

In the News

Feb 8, 2017

Alyahya Joins the Hudson Institute to Discuss US Allies in the Middle East

By Mohammed Khalid Alyahya

Watch full interview here.

Middle East
Saudi Arabia

In the News

Feb 2, 2017

Farkas Joins MSNBC to Discuss President Trump’s Contacts with Russia and Saudi Arabia, and the National Security Council

By Evelyn Farkas

Watch full interview here.

National Security
Russia

Report

Jan 6, 2017

The end of Saudi Arabia’s addiction to oil: Downstream industrial development

By Jean-Francois Seznec

Saudi Arabia’s leadership recently introduced an ambitious plan called Vision 2030 to move the country away from oil and toward a more diversified, modern economy. What are the existing downstream industries in the public and private sectors, and what has made them so successful thus far?

Energy & Environment
Energy Transitions

In the News

Jan 5, 2017

Saab in Foreign Affairs: Can Mohamed bin Salman Reshape Saudi Arabia?

By Bilal Y. Saab

His command of the issues was solid, his delivery even better. His body language signaled confidence, even though he was the youngest and least experienced person in the room. He had charisma. But most important of all, he made a more powerful case for his country than any Saudi official had done before. Read the full article here.

Saudi Arabia

In the News

Dec 27, 2016

Seznec Quoted by New York Times on Saudi Royal Family’s Spending

By Jean-François Seznec

Read full article here.

Saudi Arabia

In the News

Dec 2, 2016

Saab in Newsweek: Why We Need to Rebalance US-Saudi Relations

By Bilal Saab

Read the full article here.

Saudi Arabia

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