Why Isn’t Saudi Arabia On Trump’s List Of Banned Muslim Countries?
Why doesn’t President Trump’s executive order include Saudi Arabia, the country of origin of 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11? And why does the US State...
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Trump Effort To Pin Botched Yemen Raid On Barack Obama Falters
President Donald Trump’s first overseas operation as commander in chief, a botched raid that led to the death of an American serviceman and significant civilian casualties, was never approv...
Op-eds
Rizvi’s Reformation
The Atheist Muslim opens with snow in Saudi Arabia. The author, Ali Rizvi, is in fifth grade at the American school in Riyadh, where students are folding glittery snowflakes out of construction p...
Op-eds
Saudi Arabia: Friend or Foe? Answer: Both
An American media spotlight on Saudi Arabia re-appeared with the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Did the kingdom play a nefarious role in that terrible day? If so, should 9/11...
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Analysis: Attacks show radicals retain foothold in Saudi Arabia
A wave of suicide attacks Monday in Saudi Arabia, especially one near the burial site of the prophet Mohammed, shows that radicals are increasingly challenging the Al Saud royal family and its ro...
Op-eds
The Mr. Rogers Doctrine
Barack Obama last week visited Saudi Arabia, an unusual nation with which the United States has had a relationship that can be accurately characterized as both strategic and strange — and o...
Op-eds
Saudi Clerics’ Rhetoric — and Implications for Global Security
President Barack Obama’s meeting Wednesday with King Salman of Saudi Arabia...
Op-eds
The Problem With Saudi Arabia’s ‘Terrorist’ Re-education
Co-written by Eric Eikenberry and James Suzano On Jan. 2, Saudi Arabia conducted a mass execution of 47 individuals convicted on...
Op-eds
Saudi, Iran Tensions Risk Sinking Syria Peace Efforts
Boiling tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia risk dooming fragile, painstaking efforts to negotiate a Syrian peace deal as the fallout from the Saudis’ execution of a Shi’ite cleric...
Op-eds
A Backlash Builds Against Saudi Salafism
The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino have once again put Saudi Arabia's brand of Salafi Islam, known as Wahhabism, under the microscope. In both Europe and the United Sta...
Op-eds
Victory Without Soldiers?
With the war in Syria becoming ever more complex and murderous, it’s worthwhile to revisit a guiding principle of Barack Obama: The use of American military power is likely to do more harm...
Op-eds
The Summit That Wasn’t
I’d venture to guess that most of what you heard about President Obama’s summit last week was wrong. To start, it wasn’t a “summit.” That term, coined by Winston Chu...
Op-eds
Oil Prices Cripple Iraq’s ISIS War
Co-authored by Daniel R. DePetris Iraq had a miserable 2014. The Islamic State (IS) reentered the country in large numbers early in the year, routing the Iraqi security forces i...
Op-eds
Saudi King Salman’s Audacious Power Play
“You deserve more.” That’s what Saudi Arabia’s new King Salman tweeted to his peopl...
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W King Abdullah in hospital, ‘nervous’ Saudis fret over leadership transition amid oil price turmoil
... King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud was admitted to hospital on New Year’s Eve suffering from pneumonia, while Saudi Arabia wages a battle for oil market share, flexes its fina...
Op-eds
Gitmo ‘Poet’ Now Recruiting for Islamic State
An ex-Guantanamo detainee based in northern Pakistan is leading an effort to recruit jihadists for the Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that controls large portions of Iraq and Syria....
Op-eds
‘Chickens—gate’ Is All About Obama Trying To Silence Israel
In remarks to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg last week, anonymous senior Obama administration officials ...
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Allies, Adversaries & Enemies: America’s Increasingly Complex Alliances
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Monographs
The Muslims’ War Against Fun Is Killing Them
We all know the Muslim world is a political and cultural disaster zone. All you need to know is the spectacularly low level of book sales in the Arab world, and a similarly miserable rec...
Op-eds
Why Can’t We Be Friends?
... Rouhani’s mentor, former president Mohammad Khatami, “was a coward who declined to confront the guards,” says Amir. "Rouhani, on the other hand, is taking them on....