Category Archives: Saudi Arabia
Listen: Saudi and Gulf relations and influence in the Arab world
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Saudis’ Yemeni headache won’t go away if and when the guns fall silent
Prince Muhammad’s Khashoggi bullet: An insight into Saudi strategic thinking
Saudi Arabia and the West’s right wing: A dubious alliance
Whither Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabism?
James Dorsey analyses the structural societal and political obstacles to Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s professed desire to reform and modernise Saudi Arabia and place it on the path of an undefined “moderate Islam”. Read more [...]
Saudi religious diplomacy targets Jerusalem
James Dorsey analyses Saudi-UAE efforts to seize control of Israeli-occupied Jerusalem’s Islamic sites from Jordan, which include overtures to Israel and coopting Palestinian collaborators, foremost disgraced former security official Muhammad Dahlan. Read more [...]
Saudi-Moroccan spat: Competing for the mantle of “moderate Islam”
James Dorsey says Morocco’s attempt to portray itself as a promoter of so-called “moderate Islam” so far appears more convincing than the efforts of Saudi Arabia to that end, especially in light of recent Saudi concessions to ultra-conservatives. Read more [...]
Saudi export of ultra-conservatism in the era of Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman
James Dorsey examines the extent to which the self-styled reformist de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, Muhammad bin Salman, is disengaging from extremist Sunni Islamist groups, or whether the Saudis’ anti-Shia obsession is making the extremists too useful a tool to drop. Read more [...]
The Saudi-Israeli liaison
Lawrence Davidson examines the common underpinnings of Israel and Saudi Arabia, two countries run like restricted clubs, one demanding that you be Jewish to have membership rights, and the other wants you to be a Sunni Muslim of the Wahhabi tradition. Read more [...]