US-Saudi Relations in a Nutshell: the Silencing of Speech and the Arms Deals That Follow

US-Saudi Relations in a Nutshell: the Silencing of Speech and the Arms Deals that Follow

The world reacted with an unusual combination of dismay and equanimity to news of the murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi government...

Puck Khalaf

October 19th, 2018

U.S. Should Use Magnitsky Act to Hold Killers of Jamal Khashoggi and Saudi Arabia to Account

As it slowly becomes clear that Saudi Arabia is behind the disappearance and killing of journalist and Saudi regime critic Jamal Khashoggi, the U.S. government...

Frank Elbers

October 17th, 2018

Another Saudi: Moath Alofi and the Remnants of Medina

If there is one person who can be credited with presenting Saudi Arabia to the world from a fresh perspective, it might be the environmentalist, nature...

Puck Khalaf

September 21st, 2018

Join Our Team: Editorial Openings at Muftah

Muftah is currently seeking editors to join the following editorial teams: 1. EGYPT AND NORTH AFRICA 2. ISRAEL/PALESTINE & LEVANT 3. IRAN, IRAQ,...

Muftah

September 17th, 2018

Thomas Friedman Continues to Promote U.S. Interests over Human Rights in the Middle East

Four decades after the publication of Edward Said's seminal work "Orientalism," the Western media landscape is replete with reductive depictions of the Middle...

Denijal Jegić

September 11th, 2018