Andrew Hammond 

@andrewhammond
"kitchen prose and gutter rhymes" - from an Islamic historian, now at Australia's ANU, who was in Egypt and Saudi Arabia through the Iraq war and Arab Spring.

Saudi Arabia’s The Line reboots after a series of financial and reputational setbacks for the giga-projects

PIF, Paff, Poof!

The Houthis have got Saudi Arabia by the gigas - I explain why:

Saudi Arabia's Bright Shiny Objects

The Democrats’ lost partly because of their Ukraine war. But one country in particular has a long history of surviving losing wars:

On the Jihadist Wars of No Consequence

Several decades of jihad supported by Saudi Arabia, with no political consequence cos, hey, who's voting, right? An analysis.

On the Jihadist Wars of No Consequence

Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy has reversed itself 180 degrees from the anti-Iran bellicosity of 2016-2019 — all of the sake of its Vision 2030 social and economic reform project, to which Mohammed bin Salman has hitched his fate.

The new Saudi foreign policy: 'Why can't we all just get along?!'

Saudi Arabia's latest tourism extravaganza is a luxury resort carved into the ragged rock of the pre-Islamic Nabataean site of Mada'in Saleh

I’ve written about it here:

Cutting Up The Mountains

Saudi Arabia's latest tourism extravaganza is a luxury resort carved into the ragged rock of the pre-Islamic Nabataean site of Mada'in Saleh

Cutting Up The Mountains