Saudi Arabia
Silencing women’s voices in Saudi Arabia
Nassima ran as a candidate in local elections in 2015 before authorities removed her name from the ballot.
Hatoon is a professor of women’s history and among the first women…
Yemen, Khashoggi, and the deadly Saudi trade
“Wait, let’s take a picture!” Osama Zeid al Homran shouted to his friends. In the video the boys, aged six to eleven, are laughing and joking with one another on the bus on the…
Concerns over Saudi Arabia go far beyond Khashoggi
For the past 14 years, the small Gulf nation of Bahrain has convened sheikhs, soldiers, statesmen, and the occasional humble researcher for the IISS Manama Dialogue to discuss…
Jamal Khashoggi: shifting law in a deadly turf war
The alleged extrajudicial killing of Jamal Khashoggi, and the international condemnation that followed, reflects not only rivalry in the Middle East, but also greater anxiety…
Pakistan: indebted to China, Saudi Arabia, and IMF
Saudi Arabia was the first country Imran Khan visited after assuming office as Pakistan’s new Prime Minister. As he made the trip last month, he asked for financial help for…
What should Australia do about Saudi Arabia?
Now that the shock of the news that Riyadh may have been so bold as to kill one of its American-based critics inside its consulate in Istanbul has largely sunk in, thoughts…
Where’s Jamal?
Even by the standards of Saudi politics, the disappearance of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is head-scratchingly bizarre. He entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul…
Saudis try block Canada’s feminist foreign policy
Twitter has come to play a central role in how nations conduct their affairs, with the social media site an active component of policy projection, direct communication, and…
Reform in Saudi Arabia: will MbS squib it?
For many months, Saudi Arabia’s young tyro Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MbS) has given the impression he is a very different kind of Saudi leader: more dynamic…
The sports make-over
Before a ball had even been kicked at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, star Egyptian striker Mohamed Salah was courted for a photo-op with Head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan…