Saudi women driving would lead to promiscuity, says report
A Saudi Arabian academic released a report last week that concluded that if women were allowed to drive, it would end female virginity and promote promiscuity, prostitution, homosexuality and divorce...
View ArticleAl-Qaeda: Broke
It’s not often that Saudi Arabia will get a good write up on these pages about their role in combatting al-Qaeda (AQ), but here goes. The Saudis have been praised by US officials for playing a crucial...
View ArticleFemale Saudi equestrian could be heading to the London Olympics, but don’t...
Even as much of the rest of the Arab World experiences socio-political upheavals on an unprecedented scale, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia remains largely untouched. This is unfortunate, since the world’s...
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Women protesters in Saudi Arabia crushed
Saudi Arabia thinks its a good idea to arm the Syrian opposition against Bashar al-Assad, yet when it comes to their own citizens opposing the ruling or religious elite, they are crushed almost...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia and Qatar: unlikely candidates for intervention
The Assad regime has been blaming bomb attacks in Syria over the past year on al-Qaeda and the Opposition, painting a false picture of those opposing the regime are nothing but terrorists. Now, with...
View ArticleGCC Union
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states are expected to discuss moves towards a confederate style union—a Saudi proposal first put forward in December 2011—when they meet today in Riyadh....
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Saudi women tells religious police to get lost
“It’s none of your business” is the phrase one Saudi women repeatedly tells the country’s ultra conservative religious police in a video being widely circulated on social media and news websites. See...
View ArticleThe Arab Spring: enter Saudi Arabia
By and large, with the exception of Bahrain, the Arab Gulf states have enjoyed a stable and quiet Arab spring compared to the countries of North Africa and the Levant. This is due to the people of...
View ArticleSaudi women’s rights: reforms have not gone far enough
Guest post by Henry Jackson Communications Assistant Rosanna Rafel Since King Abdullah came to power in Saudi Arabia in 2005, his moves towards reform, particularly for women, have been closely...
View ArticleEvent summary: ‘A Saudi Perspective on a Changing Middle East’
This is a summary of an event with His Royal Highness Turki Al Faisal of Saudi Arabia on 12 September 2013; it reflects the views expressed by the speaker and not those of the Henry Jackson Society or...
View ArticleMeet Saudi Arabia’s top cleric. Like Isis, he also thinks churches should be...
Originally published in The Spectator Today a quick game of ‘spot the difference.’ First, here are some photos, released yesterday, of Isis pulling down the crosses on ancient churches and desecrating...
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Fifty Shades of Guile: Wahhabism and the death of Islamic Pluralism
SPEAKER: Dr Simon Ross Valentine TIME: 18:00-19:00, Wednesday 28th October 2015 VENUE: Committee Room 16, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA To attend please RSVP to:...
View ArticleEvent Transcript: ‘Fifty Shades of Guile: Wahhabism and the death of Islamic...
Speaker: Dr Simon Ross Valentine Chair: Sir David Amess Sir David Amess [Inaudible] Now, Dr Simon Ross Valentine has spent the last three years in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia familiarising himself with...
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The Middle East: Understanding the Turmoil
TIME: 10:30-11:30, Wednesday 16th December 2015 VENUE: Committee Room 15, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA SPEAKERS: General Yosef Kuperwasser, Former Head of Israel’s Military Intelligence &...
View ArticleEvent Transcript: ‘The Rise and Fall of the Arab State: Ramifications for...
Chair: Louise Ellman MP Host: Davis Lewin, Deputy Director of The Henry Jackson Society Speaker: Professor Asher Susser, Director for External Affairs and the Stanley and Ilene Gold Senior Research...
View ArticleEvent Summary: ‘Resurgent Authoritarianism: The Global Challenge to...
by Hugh Coates On the 5th May, Dr Marc F. Plattner, Dr Lilia Shevtsova, and Christopher Walker gave a talk on the current threat posed to democracy by resurgent authoritarian powers across the globe –...
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Event: ‘Saudi Arabia’s New Strategic Calculus’
TIME: 12:30-13:30, Monday 1st August 2016 VENUE: The Henry Jackson Society, Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, London, SW1P 4QP SPEAKER: Andrew Bowen, Global Fellow, Middle East Program at the Woodrow...
View ArticleEvent Summary: ‘Saudi Arabia’s New Strategic Calculus’
On the 1st of August, Andrew Bowen, a Global Fellow of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, gave a talk on whether the strategic gamble that is ‘Vision 2030’...
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Event: ‘Gulf Foreign Aid and Military Intervention in a Time of Fiscal...
DATE: Thursday 17th November 2016, 12:30 – 13:30 VENUE: Committee Room 2, House of Lords, Houses of Parliament, SW1A 0AA SPEAKER: Dr. Karen E. Young, Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States...
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