Please join MEF for a webinar with Ali Alyami today at 1pm EST!
The Middle East Forum cordially invites you to a webinar:
MBS Backs Down: Qatar's Surprising Victory in the GCC
with Ali Alyami
In 2017 Saudi Arabia and the UAE demanded thirteen policy reforms of Qatar and enacted a strangulating air, land, and sea blockade to extract compliance. Three-and-a-half years later, however, the de facto GCC leaders terminated the blockade without a single demand being met. What sparked the blockade and how did tiny Qatar fend off the powerhouses of the Arab world?
Friday, March 5, 2021 1:00-1:15p.m. EST
Online:
Click here to join just before 1pm EST or Webinar ID: 890 8629 6523 Passcode: 809086
By Phone: US: +1 6465588656,,89086296523#,,809086#,,#
Ali Alyami is the founder of the Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia (CDHR), a Washington, DC-based think tank. He previously worked for the Arab Organization for Human Rights in Cairo, Egypt, and the American Friends Service Committee in San Francisco. He holds an M.A. in international relations from California State University, Los Angeles and a PhD in government and diplomacy from Claremont Graduate University. His most recent work can be found to CDHR’s homepage.
The Middle East Forum, an activist think tank, deals with the Middle East, Islamism, U.S. foreign policy, and related topics, urging bold measures to protect Americans and their allies. Pursuing its goals via intellectual, operational, and philanthropic means, the Forum recurrently has policy ideas adopted by the U.S. government.
