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@aliShihabi

Founder, The Arabia Foundation علي الشهابي Views are my own

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    14 Dec 2017

    My new paper: Saudi Arabia's New Foreign Policy Doctrine

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  2. Retweeted
    Feb 1

    Jews worry US focus on Islamic terror a way to avoid home-grown white supremacy

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  3. Feb 1

    Logical for business sentiment to be affected by such unusual shock therapy but like similar if not worse shocks (i.e. country defaults) history tells us that investors recover, sometimes as soon as in months.

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    Feb 1

    It's just not worth it 🇸🇦🇮🇱: My WSJ column on how neither Israelis nor Saudis are willing to pay the cost of open cooperation.

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  5. Retweeted
    Jan 31

    Good analysis by of struggles in the south have a looooong history.

    Aden crisis has been depicted as a Saudi-Emirati ploy to divide & conquer an already-fractured Yemen, our senior analyst says confrontation stems entirely from local issues i.e. continued economic and political marginalization of south Yemen.
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    Jan 31

    Aden crisis has been depicted as a Saudi-Emirati ploy to divide & conquer an already-fractured Yemen, our senior analyst says confrontation stems entirely from local issues i.e. continued economic and political marginalization of south Yemen.

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  7. Retweeted
    Jan 31

    Qat, a leafy plant, is chewed by 90% of men in Yemen

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  8. Jan 30

    The Super Bowl add for the Amazon TV series my daughter has a lead role in. via

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    Jan 30

    As crisis in Yemen's South intensifies, explains to the complicated relationship between the North and South.

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    Jan 30

    is threatening stability in the Middle East; writes ’s FM HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed AlNahyan

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  11. Jan 30

    These sort of investments make one worry that the VC market is going nuts again. A dog-walking app asks for $100m and is convinced to take $300m. Does a global market exist for this??

    SoftBank invests $300 million into dog-walking startup Wag
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  12. Retweeted
    Jan 29

    It’s reforms like these (not flashy NEOMs) that will mean all the difference for the Saudi economy. Streamline bureaucracy & make process transparent.

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    Jan 29

    Saudi passports department advertised 140 new jobs for women. More than 107,000 women submitted applications in the first week

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    Jan 29

    "Despite accounting for an estimated 10 percent of Iran’s population, no Sunni has been appointed to a ministerial position in government since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979."

    Iranian Sunni Cleric Faces Travel Restrictions: “It All Comes Down to Intolerance”
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    Jan 29

    As the situation imploded in the South of this weekend, our senior analyst lays out "critical" developments in the country to . For full interview, visit:

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    Jan 29

    “There, undeniably, would be no ISIS if we hadn’t invaded Iraq,” says David Kilcullen, a former counter-insurgency adviser to Gen. David Petraeus.

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  17. Jan 28

    "'Today, it seems that Lebanon is a small state within Hezbollah’s state" via

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  18. Jan 28

    Prince Turki Bin Nasser writes to King Salman after his release from the pledging his complete loyalty to the King and The Crown Prince.

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    Jan 28

    So wait, Dershowitz says if you are too critical of his trip to Qatar you might be an anti-semite? Really? How about that it's totally reasonable to question why anyone accepts a free flight to a Gulf state without questioning the odd motives of why a COUNTRY is flying u there?

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    Jan 28

    prince freed. At least no suicides & shooting sprees that accompanied family anti corruption drive staged before Bashar took over in 2000. saga ends when all princes bless MbS ascension to throne

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    Jan 27

    There is an argument that all wars end in some sort of a negotiated settlement. But maybe - just maybe - the Afghan one must continue until we prevail. As we remember the liberation of Auschwitz, we have to accept that there are some groups that can never be accommodated

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