Press Release

WASHINGTON, February 20, 2018 – The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington is pleased to announce that Alanoud Al-Sharekh has joined the institute as a non-resident fellow. Al-Sharekh has enjoyed an extensive career in consulting and scholarly research. She is currently a consulting partner at Ibtkar Strategic Consultancy and a research associate at the London...

WASHINGTON, January 8, 2018 – The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington is pleased to announce that Yasser Elsheshtawy has joined the institute as a visiting scholar. Elsheshtawy is a professor of architecture specializing in urban research in the Middle East. His scholarship focuses on urbanization in developing societies, informal urbanism, urban history, and environment-behavior...

WASHINGTON, September 25, 2017 – The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington is pleased to announce that David Des Roches and David Roberts have joined the institute as non-resident fellows. DB Des Roches is an associate professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at National Defense University, where he specializes in...

On Thursday, February 16, AGSIW Visiting Scholar Hala Aldosari testified in front of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women’s Issues at the hearing “Democracy and Human Rights: The Case for U.S. Leadership.” In her testimony, Aldosari stated: Activists and concerned citizens [in Saudi Arabia] struggle to provide...

On Wednesday, January 20, AGSIW Board Member and Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University Bernard Haykel testified in front of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs at the hearing “Inside the Mind of ISIS: Understanding Its Goals and Ideology to Better Protect the Homeland.” In his testimony, Haykel stated: Thinking of the Islamic State...

WASHINGTON, January 6, 2016 – The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington is pleased to announce that Hala Aldosari has joined the institute as a visiting scholar for a six-month period. Before joining AGSIW, Aldosari was a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University, working on women’s health issues. Her research interests include violence against women...

On Tuesday, October 6, AGSIW Executive Vice President Ambassador Stephen Seche testified in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a hearing on “The U.S. Role and Strategy in the Middle East: Yemen and the Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council.” In his testimony, Seche stated: On the face of it, the newfound assertiveness...

The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington is pleased to announce that H.E. Yousef Al-Ebraheem, Dr. Bernard Haykel, H.E. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Mr. George R. Salem, Mr. Maroun Semaan, and Mr. Khaled Sifri, have joined the AGSIW Board of Directors.