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his successors. The verdict should also raise alarms about the fate of other prisoners, including several journalists for the pan-Arab news channel Al Jazeera, whose trial is underway in Cairo, as well as 600 other defendants, whose mass trial is set to begin on Tuesday. The possibility that all could be

to get Egypt to finalize an agreement with the International Monetary Fund. EFTA00662922 The president will likely have difficult discussions in Riyadh. Understanding, however, that his hosts will be looking for actions and not just good words may yet make them productive. Dennis Ross is counselor

Iraq. SISI, of course, is Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the new strongman/president of Egypt, whose regime debuted this week by shamefully sentencing three Al Jazeera journalists to prison terms on patently trumped-up charges — a great nation acting so small. ISIS and Sisi, argues Perlov, a researcher on Middle E

to pressure the then transitional government to change course, the Saudis were the first to praise the toppling of the Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi. Riyadh pledged billions of dollars of economic aid to shore up the new government of now President Abdul Fatah Sissi and declared the Brotherhood a terror

News (07/24, Mitsanas, Kosnar, Mullen), NPR (07/24, Kim), Politico (07/24, Frazier, Gerstein), Axios (07/24, Knutson), Bloomberg (07/24, Mekelburg), Al Jazeera (07/24, Staff Writer), the New York Post (07/24, Christenson), The Hill (07/24, Beitsch), and BBC News (07/24, Debusmann). Hunter Biden Goes to Cou

ncil's empowerME initiative in cooperation with Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business with support from US Embassy in EFTA00160551 Riyadh and PepsiCo. Our yearlong program, running from June 2023 to March 2024, is providing thirty-four Saudi women entrepreneurs the opportunity to exten

e town governor, Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in the town square. He died in a coma, January 4, 2011. His dramatic suicide was picked up by Al Jazeera and became a national symbol-a furious expression of frustration with a regime going rapidly from Ibn Khaldfm's fourth stage (hateful luxury) into

e, only thirty or forty were estimated to have done so across the country. Twenty years previous, more women-47 exactly-had gone briefly to jail in Riyadh for taking the wheels of their cars.[13] These two neighboring absolutisms, Iran and Saudi Arabia, loathe and fear each other. Upon the Persian/Ar

er to revive Turkey's glorious Ottoman days when the center of Sunni Islam was in Istanbul is a direct threat to Saudi primacy. That Qatar and its Al Jazeera press poodle enthusiastically backed the Turks and the Egyptians with money, diplomacy and publicity only angered the Saudis more. With America bac

iplomacy and publicity only angered the Saudis more. With America backing this axis—while also failing to heed Saudi warnings about Iran and Syria—Riyadh wanted to undercut rather than support American diplomacy. An alliance with the Egyptian military against Mr. Morsi's weakening government provided

d with the prospect of Facebook revolutions, airdropping iPhones is not a democracy promotion strategy on the cheap. Others pointed to the role of Al Jazeera in focusing attention on the uprisings; its coverage of the revolution in Tunisia, it is argued, helped to "seed" the Arab Spring in other countrie

in fact, U.S. presidents have been able to count on the Middle Eastern petro giant to pre-release oil in anticipation of times of war. For example, Riyadh flooded the market ahead of the first Gulf War and, though many do not remember, it also put extra oil on the market ahead of the U.S. invasion of

e made by the career agents and analysts here at the FBI." Additional reporting on the story was provided by ABC News (11/25, Barr, Siegel, Murray), Al Jazeera (11/25, Rasheed), Axios (11/25, Solender), BBC (11/25, Saad), Bloomberg (11/25, Reilly, Birnbaum), CBS News (11/25, Yilek, Maguire), CNBC (11/25, M

ed States and its implications for the future of the US-Saudi partnership. They will explore the evolving strategic alignment between Washington and Riyadh, the significance of recent US arms sales, how Iran has shaped the broader regional landscape, and the Trump administration's approach to Saudi Arab