Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

July 9, 2015 |

The Gulf Cooperation Council Camp David Summit: Any Results?

Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Deutch, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee: thank you on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies for the opportunity to testify before...

April 29, 2015 | FDD Policy Brief

All in the Family: Saudi Clique Takes Over the State

Saudi Arabia has the rare distinction of being a nation named after a single family. On Wednesday, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud doubled down on this authoritarian tradition with a bold...

April 1, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

Satrapy Fishing in the Yemen

Three years ago, film-goers were treated to “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,” which critic Kenneth Turan called a “pleasant fantasy” about the Middle East. Today, of cou...

March 30, 2015 | David Weinberg |

Doomsday: Stopping a Middle East Nuclear Arms Race

Imagine the imposition of financial sanctions on the central bank of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia—the only Arab member of the G20 group of major economies. To this, add biting multinational...

March 26, 2015 | David Weinberg |

Why ‘Operation Decisive Resolve’ is the ultimate setback for Iran

Today’s Saudi-led international military intervention in Yemen, Operation Decisive Storm, is a decided setback for Iran’s regional ambitions. Officials in Tehran had been gloating abo...

June 5, 2014 | FDD Policy Brief |

Iranian Overtures To The Gulf

Sheikh Sabah al Ahmed al Sabah, Emir of Kuwait, concluded a two day landmark visit to Iran on Monday, the first such visit by a Kuwa...

September 19, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief |

Saudi Strategy in Syria

Saud al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, issued a direct order earlier this month: “...

February 29, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

The Road From Damascus

When Khaled Meshaal slipped quietly out of Damascus in January, Hamas ended a decade-long stay in the Syrian cap...

February 27, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer Foreign Policy |

Saudi Arabia Is Arming the Syrian Opposition

What could possibly go wrong?

March 30, 2007 |

Iran’s Shadow Hovered Over Riyadh

The standard for success at Arab summits is, usually, the avoidance of implosion as differences between the various rulers take center stage and eclipse more relevant issues. The end-result is us...

October 31, 2006 | The Mideast Monitor |

Syrian-Saudi Media Wars

The recent conflict between Israel and Hezbollah produced a dramatic resurgence of Saudi-Syrian tensions, which have been boiling beneath the surface since the assassination of former Lebanese Pr...

January 31, 2006 | Mideast Monitor |

Saudi-Syrian Relations after Hariri

Tony Badran is a PhD candidate in Ancient Near Eastern studies at New York University. He is also a Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, with a particular focus on Lebanes...

August 17, 2003 |

The Dysfunctional House of Saud

By Stephen Schwartz THERE COMES A TIME in the history of every oppressive state when the need for change is suddenly and widely understood to be imperative. Inevitably, an incident occur...

May 14, 2003 | Wall Street Journal

The Real Saudi Arabia

The Monday bombings in Riyadh are only the latest evidence that the Saudi government cannot and will not suppress extremism. The wake-up calls keep coming, but the U.S. refuses to recognize the k...