The National Council, in partnership with the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission (SACM) and Saudi Arabian Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), escorted a delegation of Model Arab League students on a cultural immersion study visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, December 27, 2012-January 7, 2013.
Education and understanding have no borders, The Captain’s Log, April 10, 2013
MT Spotlight: MSU sophomore traveling to Saudi Arabia, KZBK , December 4, 2012
My Relationship with the Arab World by John Mulholland, Chairman of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations’ Board of Directors
From the National Council’s Arabia, the Gulf, and the GCC Blog
POLICYMAKING OPPORTUNITIES AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM REGIONAL GEO-POLITICAL DYNAMICS: THE ARABIAN PENINSULA (GCC COUNTRIES AND YEMEN)
Chair:
Dr. John Duke Anthony
Speakers:
Dr. Abdel Aziz Abu Hamad Aluwaisheg - Assistant Secretary General for Negotiations and Strategic Dialogue, Gulf Cooperation Council.
Dr. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla - Professor of Political Science, United Arab Emirates University (Abu Dhabi); lead author, 2008 Arab Knowledge Report.
Dr. Abdullah K. Al-Shayji - Chairman, Department of Political Science, Kuwait University; author, Kuwait’s Ceaseless Quest for Survival in a Hostile Environment.
VIDEOSAUDI ARABIAN – U.S. RELATIONS: A VIEW FROM RIYADH
Speaker:
Ambassador James Smith – U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY HRH PRINCE TURKI AL-FAISAL
Chair and Introduction:
Dr. John Duke Anthony
Speaker:
HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal - Chairman, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; former Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Kingdom and to the United States of America; former Director General, General Intelligence Directorate, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
John Duke Anthony – Saudi Arabian-U.S. Relations on the Kingdom’s National Day: A Personal Perspective
From the National Council’s Arabia, the Gulf, and the GCC Blog
A Window onto the Gulf Cooperation Council, Together With a View Regarding Its Involvement Of Late With Yemen – remarks by His Excellency Dr. Abdul Latif Bin Rashid Al Zayani, Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, to the Gulf Research Center’s Third Annual Gulf Research Meeting, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Introduction by Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations.
From the National Council’s Arabia, the Gulf, and the GCC Blog
Remarks on GCC Economic Issues by Dr. Odeh Aburdene at the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations’ Capital Seminar on “The Gulf Cooperation Council at Thirty Plus One: Implications for GCC and U.S. Interests and Policies.”
From the National Council’s Arabia, the Gulf, and the GCC Blog
Dr. John Duke Anthony spoke to KSA2 (Saudi Arabian, English-language TV) on June 14, 2012 about the 31st anniversary and growing international importance of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The GCC is comprised of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Anthony is the only American to have been invited to each of the GCC’s Ministerial and Heads of State Summits since the GCC’s inception in 1981.
Saudi Arabia’s Energy Crisis by Robert Lebling
From the National Council’s Arabia, the Gulf, and the GCC Blog
John Duke Anthony – The Future Significance of the Gulf Cooperation Council (.pdf file)
This essay appeared in: The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research. Global Strategic Developments: A Futuristic Vision. Abu Dhabi: The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 2012. pp. 63-103.
The National Council, in partnership with the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission (SACM) and Saudi Arabian Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), escorted a delegation of Model Arab League students on a cultural immersion study visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, December 28, 2011-January 7, 2012.
Cadet will travel to Saudi Arabia for winter fellowship, The Citadel Newsroom , December 12, 2011
John Duke Anthony – Saudi Arabian Ambassadors to America in Context: The Diplomatic and Geopolitical Lives of Ambassadors Prince Bandar, Prince Turki, and Adel Al-Jubeir (.pdf file)
This essay from Dr. Anthony examines the diplomatic and geopolitical challenges and opportunities for the three most recent Saudi Arabian Ambassadors to the United States: Prince Bandar, Prince Turki, and Adel Al-Jubeir. Dr. Anthony wrote an earlier biography of Adel Al-Jubeir for the Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East & North Africa in 2007. Centgage Learning, the publisher of that two-volume work, has granted permission to reprint the earlier version and to bring the essay up to date. The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East & North Africa can be purchased here: http://bit.ly/seY6oo.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY HRH PRINCE TURKI AL-FAISAL
HRH Prince Turki Al-Faisal Al Sa’ud - Chairman, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; former Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Kingdom and to the United States of America; former Director General, General Intelligence Directorate, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL (GCC) DYNAMICS (III)
Chair:
Dr. John Duke Anthony - Founding President and CEO of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, and author, inter alia, of Arab States of the Lower Gulf: People, Politics, Petroleum and Historical and Cultural Dictionary of the Sultanate of Oman and the Emirates of Eastern Arabia.
Speakers:
Dr. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla - Professor of Political Science, Emirates University (Abu Dhabi); lead author, 2008 Arab Knowledge Report. (UAE)
Dr. Abdulla Al-Shayji - Chairman, Department of Political Science, Kuwait University, and author, Kuwait’s Ceaseless Quest for Survival in a Hostile Environment. (Kuwait)
Mr. Jeremy Jones - Author of Negotiating Change: The New Politics of the Middle East and the forthcoming Oman, Culture and Diplomacy; Senior Associate Member, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies; National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations Distinguished International Fellow. (Oman)
Dr. Thomas Mattair - Executive Director, Middle East Policy Council; former Research Scholar, Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research; author,The Three Occupied UAE Islands: The Tunbs and Abu Musa and Global Security Watch — Iran: A Reference Handbook. (Bahrain)
Commentator:
Mr. Robert Lacey - Historian, and author of, inter alia, The Kingdom: Arabia & the House of Sa’ud (1982) and Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia (2009). (Saudi Arabia)
Dr. John Duke Anthony spoke with KSA2, Saudi Arabian English-language TV, on the eve of Saudi Arabia National Day 2011.
John Duke Anthony – The Intervention in Bahrain through the Lenses of its Supporters (.pdf file)
This essay from Dr. Anthony analyzes the Gulf Cooperation Council’s response to Bahrain’s request for defense assistance in March 2011. It was written for the website of the Abu Dhabi-based Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR). The ECSSR is one of the GCC countries’ oldest and most productive think tanks and research institutes on public policy issues. A shorter version of this essay was published on the ECSSR website and can be accessed here: http://t.co/MLsibJx.
The National Council, in partnership with the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission (SACM) and Saudi Arabian Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), escorted a delegation of female Model Arab League students on a cultural immersion study visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, December 30, 2010 – January 12, 2011.
Visit enlightens 10 American students about Saudi culture, Arab News, April 3, 2011
GV student travels to Saudi Arabia on fellowship, Grand Valley Lanthorn, January 23, 2011
Central grad tells of Saudi trip, Forsyth News, February 1, 2011
Saudi Arabia is no longer ‘foreign’ to me, The Saudi Gazette, February 20, 2011
Fellowship in Saudi Arabia, Grand Valley State University Success Stories, December 21, 2010
John Duke Anthony – The GCC Summit in Perspective: A Conversation with John Duke Anthony (via ArabiaLink)
OCTOBER 22 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Oct. 22 Keynote Address – 2010 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference
from NCUSAR on Vimeo.
Speaker: HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Sa’ud –Chairman, King Faisal Foundation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; former Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the Court of St. James and to the United States of America; former Director General, Intelligence Directorate General, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
