The Battle for the Soul of Islam
James M Dorsey
21 May 2025 14.00 BST
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Politics and Religion: Sectarianism in the Middle East
Professor Simon Mabon is Director of the Sectarianism, Proxies and De-sectarianisation (SEPAD) project at Lancaster University’s Richardson Institute and Chair in International Politics On 12 January, US and UK militaries struck targets across Yemen in an effort to prevent Houthi attacks against ships passing through the Red Sea. The Houthis, a violently intolerant Islamist group…
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Heritage Tourism, Sustainability and Community in AlUla
Co-authors Richard Wilding and Elisabeth Dodinet have spent their careers working with intangible cultural heritage, Richard as a writer and filmmaker in the Middle East and Elisabeth as an archaeo-ethno-botanist conducting research on aromatic plants. Speaking via Zoom from an office in the town of AlUla in northwest Saudi Arabia, three young women talk excitedly…
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Traditional Costumes and Heritage of Saudi Arabia
Richard Wilding, 2 June 2021, 14.00
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The Afghanistan File: Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan
The Hugh Leach Memorial Lecture
His Royal Highness Prince Turki Alfaisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 22 September 2021, 14:00 -
Qatar Sanctions – an analysis
Robin Lamb was formerly British Ambassador to Bahrain and now the executive director of LBBC. He is also a member of the Council of the RSAA. Here, he looks at the background to the current dispute between Qatar and its neighbouring Arab states. On 5 June 2017, Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE broke off diplomatic…
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Asian Affairs: Summer issue preview – Yemen, India and the Middle East, British in Iraq…
The summer issue of the Asian Affairs Journal is now available online – click here for the contents page. Some articles are free to view by all visitors (as indicated); others are only available for free to RSAA memers/JSTOR/Taylor & Francis/Academic subscribers. Highlights include “Yemen and the Huthis: Genesis of the 2015 Crisis” – an…
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The Future for Saudi Arabia – an Ambassador’s view
Sir Harold Walker KCMG is a former UK Ambassador to Bahrain, the UAE and Iraq. He has long-standing experience of the Arab world, and also serves on the Council for Arab-British Understanding. He is an Honorary Vice-President of the RSAA. The death of Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud at the age of about 91…
