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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andrewmleber
Mar 15, 202313 min read
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...
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andrewmleber
Jan 15, 20233 min read
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...
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andrewmleber
Dec 21, 20224 min read
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...
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andrewmleber
Nov 26, 20225 min read
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...
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andrewmleber
Oct 14, 20223 min read
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,...
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andrewmleber
Jul 14, 20225 min read
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...
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andrewmleber
Mar 26, 20225 min read
Oil & chaos
Recent Saudi newspaper commentary has charged the international community with failing to resolve the conflict in Yemen; years of Houthis...
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andrewmleber
Mar 1, 20224 min read
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...
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andrewmleber
Jan 13, 20225 min read
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...
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andrewmleber
Aug 10, 202112 min read
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...
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andrewmleber
Jul 26, 20215 min read
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...
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andrewmleber
Jul 5, 202112 min read
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...
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andrewmleber
Jun 18, 20214 min read
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...
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andrewmleber
Apr 11, 20216 min read
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...
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andrewmleber
Feb 14, 20219 min read
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 –...
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andrewmleber
Jan 28, 20215 min read
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...
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andrewmleber
Jan 9, 20211 min read
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...
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andrewmleber
Jan 6, 202114 min read
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...
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andrewmleber
Dec 11, 20205 min read
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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