The late Fouad Ajami left us a book on Saudi Arabia. It's the back story of 9/11.
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Mecca: You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone
Change in Mecca will accelerate. Effect on Islam? Unpredictable.
Chas Freeman’s Saudi fable
The other day, I brought this January 2004 quote from Chas Freeman, just named to head of the National Intelligence Council (NIC): The heart of the poison is the Israel-Palestinian conundrum. When I was in Saudi Arabia, I was told by Saudi friends that on Saudi TV there were three terrorists who came out and …
FDR-Ibn Saud
Today is the sixtieth anniversary of the 1945 meeting between President Franklin Roosevelt and Saudi King Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud, which took place on board the U.S.S. Quincy in the Great Bitter Lake, Egypt. The summit is regarded as the beginning of the U.S.-Saudi relationship. In this photo, the king is speaking to the interpreter, …
Saudi Prince on Academic Shopping Spree
Last month, a newspaper in Exeter, England, carried a news item with this Thousand-and-One-Nights headline: "Rich Prince Shares Wealth with City's University Students." Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal had flown into Exeter to make a gift of one million euros to the local university's Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. The news item was absolutely …
Saudi Oil Lobby Puffs Middle East Centers
When my book Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies appeared just after 9/11, the Middle Eastern studies crowd panicked. They feared that unfavorable publicity would damage them in Washington, and endanger the millions of dollars they receive in government subsidies. The then-president of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) talked about …
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