Hussain AbdulHussain is a journalist and commentator specializing in Middle Eastern affairs, with particular focus on Gulf state politics, Saudi Arabia, and regional power dynamics. He contributed analysis and reporting to The Weekly Standard between 2011 and 2015, covering topics including the Syrian conflict, Saudi foreign policy, and broader geopolitical turmoil in the region.
The Obama administration put a happy face on its Camp David summit last week, even as four of the Gulf Cooperation Council’s six leaders turned down Obama’s invitation to attend. The most significant absence, of course, was that of Saudi Arabia’s king, Salman. In his place, Riyadh sent Salman’s…
Kuwait City
Kuwait City
Kuwait City
Ten years ago today, the day Baghdad fell to American troops, I wrote that with the downfall of Saddam Hussein, I finally felt free as a journalist to criticize the Iraqi regime under my own byline without fear of reprisal from Saddam’s henchmen in Beirut, where I then lived. The evening that I…
If Sir James Wolfensohn, the cofounder of Edward Said’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, doesn’t deserve to be honored at the American University of Beirut (AUB), then who does? Recently, the former World Bank chief found himself in the midst of controversy after AUB had announced that he would…