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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 89–95.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Sarah El Sirgany Egypt handed over two uninhabited islands to Saudi Arabia, sparking the largest mass protests in Cairo since 2014. Both governments say they want to maintain close ties, according to journalist Sarah El Sirgany, but conflicting expectations, dissatisfied citizens, and domestic...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 78–85.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Last year, the San Francisco-based author Dave Eggers published his book, A Hologram for the King , a vision of Saudi Arabia where the Western world of holograms and the Internet comes up against the hard realities of today’s Saudi Arabia. Eggers, whose novel was nominated for a National Book Award...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 37–50.
Published: 01 March 2002
.... Identification with the United States
Saudi Arabia. Osama bin Laden was born now, at a time of increasing anti-American
and raised there and is a product, albeit an ism in the Arab world, could excite more
extreme and unique one, of the educational domestic opposition to the A1 Saud. With
and cultural...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 23–30.
Published: 01 September 2004
.... For decades, Ameri no less sanguine views of Saudi Arabia.
can presidents have paid only token atten They have discovered that the affable de
tion to Saudi Arabia. In return for Riyadh’s meanor of the Saudi ambassador, Prince
cooperation in keeping oil prices at tolerable Bandar, conceals...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 50–63.
Published: 01 September 2017
... Stories, she has followed a widow, a happily married couple, and an exuberant single businesswoman. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 marriage women gender Saudi Arabia photography divorce family Nassiba, a fashion designer, plays with her son Bilal in their home in Jeddah...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 118–125.
Published: 01 March 2015
...David A. Andelman © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute Pull up to a gas pump anywhere in Saudi Arabia, and you can fill your tank for 45 cents a gallon. The price hasn’t changed since the King dropped it from 90 cents in 2006. It’s the King who sets the price because...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 110–119.
Published: 01 September 2012
...David A. Andelman That said, there are folks in Saudi Arabia for whom life is truly appalling. One evening, as four of us were driving to dinner, I sat up front with our driver. He was a young man from Lahore, capital of the Punjab province in Pakistan. Many of his fellow drivers, not to mention...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 78–87.
Published: 01 September 2013
... health systems, or to restrict their access. John Monterona, a Filipino migrant worker and advocacy organizer in Saudi Arabia, considers himself among the lucky few out of the 1.2 million Filipino workers in the Gulf kingdom. The 38-year-old has risen in the ranks in his construction engineering work...
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Published: 01 September 2017
“I asked my father for a BMW, but he gifted me a horse instead,” says Ekleel, an aspiring equestrian, musician, and sports enthusiast. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that bars women from driving. “I asked my father for a BMW, but he gifted me a horse instead,” says Ekleel
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 45–55.
Published: 01 March 2001
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Western and anti-Russian crusade. Examin strategies to meet this threat— while the
ing these insurgent groups will be the focus Taliban and Islamic groups in Pakistan,
of this article. Saudi Arabia, China, and Kashmir help fuel
Every act of state repression has pushed...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 101–110.
Published: 01 March 2012
... powers like Iran—or even Saudi Arabia if its Shiite neighbor explodes such a device—that having nukes is a token neither of national manhood nor sovereignty. Strategic missile defense systems capable of knocking down some, but not all, incoming missiles create perverse incentives for others to compensate...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 77–83.
Published: 01 September 2015
... bête noire , Hezbollah. Jordan, caught in the middle, is also allowing arms to cross its borders. In short, a complex, often lethal kaleidoscope of interests and alliances is revealing itself across the region. We must also take into account Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia, which has embarked...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 67–71.
Published: 01 September 2004
... critical When President Bush responded to
force in turning the public against the Viet Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990
nam War. His systematic examination of by sending tens of thousands of U.S. troops
newspaper and television coverage (The “Un to Saudi Arabia and likening Saddam...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 1–14.
Published: 01 September 2004
... the political activity undertaken in What works in Saudi Arabia will not work
the name of Islam. A more analytically use in Turkey. Anyone familiar with the diversi
ful definition is that provided by the politi ty of the Muslim world— its socioeconomic
cal scientist Guilian Denoeux, who writes...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 10–15.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Haifaa Al-Mansour © World Policy Institute 2014 2014 World Policy Institute Haifaa al-Mansour is a Saudi Arabian film director whose first feature-length film, Wadjda, a multiple award-winner released by Sony Pictures Classics, was the first filmed in Saudi Arabia and the first...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (2): 70–79.
Published: 01 June 2013
... leadership. The arrival of the more conservative Islam began in the post-Soviet vacuum when demand for Muslim teachers outweighed supply. Students started going abroad for study, particularly to Saudi Arabia. At the same time, many clerics from Arabia and Turkey arrived in the region. The Tatar...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 103–110.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Ashwin Parulkar © 2011 World Policy Institute 2011 World Policy Institute S heikh Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi, a citizen of Saudi Arabia, spends his time shuttling between Riyadh and Ethiopia, where he was born in a village 64 years ago. The son of a Yemeni father and Ethiopian mother...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 17–23.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Saudi Arabia, known for its social, economic, and political repression of women, who are not allowed to drive a car, and only rarely can work side by side with men. Yet Lubna Olayan, CEO of Olayan Financing Company, ranks among Forbes’ 100 most influential women. Olayan is optimistic about the future...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 3–7.
Published: 01 September 2012
... interference in politics, there are few free educational institutions, leaving more than 75 percent of the population undereducated. Furthermore, the import of extremist Wahhabi ideology from Saudi Arabia has resulted in a toxic mix of religion and politics as well as an unholy alliance between the mullahs...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 62–72.
Published: 01 September 2011
... SANA’A—It’s 2009. Dust from the recent bombings still hangs in the warm air of Sa’dah, a city 113 miles north of Yemen’s capital, just shy of the frontier with Saudi Arabia and the vast desert known as the Empty Quarter. A five-year-old girl stands crying in the street. Hungry, thirsty, and alone, she...
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