How many Saudis are there?
A new census is being released in Saudi Arabia for the first time since 2010, having been carried out by the General Authority for...
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March Op-Eds (Iran-Saudi)
Plenty of op-eds have emerged to comment on the recent Iran-China-Saudi summit to normalize Saudi-Iranian relations (and plans for...
U.S. Public Opinion of Late
The past year was a tumultuous time for the bilateral relationship, largely comprising a war of words in U.S. news outlets over Saudi and...
الأخبار: نوفيمبر و ديسيمبر 2022
بعض الملاحظات من الصحف الأمريكية حول الشأن السعودي وقضايا ذات الصلة السياسات والسياس Save translation فيضان جدة هرع عمال البلدية في مدينة...
News & Commentary: Nov. 2022
As I’m trying to spend less time on Twitter, I’m experimenting with revamping this site to have more regular posts – starting with...
Backlash to the Backlash
OPEC Logo. Source: Wikimedia commons Op-ed commentary on U.S. criticisms of the recent OPEC+ decision. Hopefully updated as time permits,...
Biden’s MidEast trip
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir walk across the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base in...
Oil & chaos
Recent Saudi newspaper commentary has charged the international community with failing to resolve the conflict in Yemen; years of Houthis...
Russia & Ukraine
Taking a brief break from fast-paced dissertation writing to clear my head, so no time to contextualize these op-eds. You might check out...
Catching Up
Castle, Bani Malik Mountains, Southern Jazan, Saudi Arabia (Author Photo) The academic job market took up almost all of my time in the...
Discussions of Elections in Qatar
Doha, c. November 2017 There has been much discussion on social media of certain objections to how Shura Council elections in Qatar are...
The Democratic Party
In a recent discussion about “anti-Americanism” in Saudi media I was gently encouraged to think more about how anti-Americanism manifests...
KSA-UAE Tensions: Oil, Trade, TV
GCC Flag, Jazan (Saudi Arabia), 2019 [Author Photo] Once again, Twitter and the occasional statement to international media has offered...
Al-Qarar Center for Media Studies
I haven’t posted for a while as I a) figure out what makes sense to cover given Ahmed al-Omran’s excellent coverage of Saudi media over...
March-April 2021: Yemen Peace Proposal and More
Sun over the plains of ‘Asir, Saudi Arabia Been a while since I’ve posted, so just slowly pulling together a few articles on topics of...
Media Reactions – 25 Days of Biden
Below is a quick review of recent Saudi media reactions thus far to US policies towards Saudi Arabia and a number of regional issues –...
KSA Labor Market, 2017-2020
For my dissertation I look at a fair amount of Saudi labor statistics, which have attracted a bit of media coverage of late – the General...
Supporting the Site
Hi all! Despite the current wave of substacks, I have no intention of taking this site private anytime soon, given that my posting is too...
43 Months of Qatar Crisis Op-eds
Looking back at 43 months of articles on the Qatar Crisis from Al-Sharq al-Aawsat‘s Abdelrahman al-Rashed, a few quick takeaways (and, if...
Reconciliation with Qatar?
Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan commenting on the potential resolution of the Gulf crisis kicked off some domestic Saudi...
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