Middle East Media Analyst

Steven Stalinsky

1 article 2004

Steven Stalinsky is the executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), focusing on monitoring and analyzing media and public discourse in the Middle East. He has written extensively on Middle Eastern affairs, diplomacy, and extremism for various publications. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2004.

Diplomatic Missionaries?

June 21, 2004 · Magazine

IT'S BEEN A ROUGH FEW MONTHS for the Saudi embassy in Washington. First there were the money embarrassments. On April 4, the Washington Post noted: "A federal probe has turned up $36 million in unreported withdrawals [from Riggs Bank] by Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington and his wife,…