Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC August 6, 2014  Rented Defense, Freedom of Speech, Use of Clerics, Fallout of Jihadi Gains and Suffering of Arab Christians  Commentaries and Analysis Saudi Defense Strategy: Colossal Failure CDHR’s Commentary: Due to historical mistrust of and lack of faith in their people’s aptitude to defend their country, the autocratic Saudi monarchs have relied on hired services to protect them and to defend their kingdom since the establis ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC July 3, 2014 Jihadi surge and Gains, Gulf oligarchies, women activists and Terrorism Laws Commentaries and Analysis The ISIS Jihadis Learned From “the Best” CDHR’s Commentary: There is no one to blame for conceiving, nurturing and exporting lethal Jihadi terror groups, like the groups of which the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria consist, more than Arab absolute rulers, their religious schools, mosques and zealot clerics. Some Arab and ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC June 1, 2014 Saudi/Persian Rapprochement, Punishments Exceed Crimes, Corruption and Token Royals     Commentaries and Analysis  Cost of Saudi/Persian Rapprochement    CDHR’s Commentary: Despite their belligerent public pronouncements and pomposity, the absolute Saudi and Iranian regimes have more in common than they preach to their oppressed populations and to the international community. Neither of ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC April 23, 2014 Saudis and Muslim Brotherhood, Competing Ideologues, Saudi Succession, Women’s Status and  Islam Commentaries and Analysis Perilous Intent of Recent Saudi Conduct   CDHR’s Commentary: The Saudi regime’s recent domestic and regional risky conduct is indicative of its inability to absorb domestic demands for reforms and to deal with regional transformative developments (i.e., the Arab Spring). Domestically, the regime ...Continue Reading

*Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC* *February 25, 2014* *The King and The President, Competing Ideologues, Women’s Status, Islam and Slavery * *Commentaries and Analysis * *This Time, President Obama Does Not Have to **Stoop* *CDHR’s Commentary:* When President Obama met Saudi King Abdullah in April 2009, three months after his inauguration as President of the United States, he was overwhelmed by the presidency itself, the US economy was on the verge of collapsing and A ...Continue Reading

*Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC* *January 9, 2014* *Inconsequential Reforms, Retarding Educational System and Impediment to Human Development* *Commentaries and Analysis * * * *King Abdullah: Reformer or Re-enforcer of Absolute Rule? * *CDHR’s Analysis: *Realizing that his era is coming to an end, King Abdullah has been rearranging the deck of cards to ensure that his wing of the ruling family remains in power after he no longer rules. He has been placing his ...Continue Reading

*Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC* *November 20, 2013* *Diminishing Influence And Isolation: Causes for US-Saudi Rift * *Commentaries and Analysis * *Saudi Arabia Without America?* CDHR’s Commentary: While Saudi streets are not filled with demonstrators calling for the overthrow of their absolute monarchy at this point, something else is emerging that could expedite the downfall of the House of Saud: the United States has begun looking after its interests in ...Continue Reading

*Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC* *September 23, 2013* *Diminishing Influence And Cosmetic Announcements * *Commentaries and Analysis * * * *“Saudi Arabia stirs the Middle East pot”* *CDHR’s Analysis:* In a recent opinion piece in the Washington Post, David Ignatius characterized the underhanded Saudi interferences in the affairs of other Muslim and Arab countries as “…partly to keep turmoil outside their borders. It’s what the divide-and-conquer British used t ...Continue Reading

*Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC* *August 10, 2013* *Implications of Royal Defections and Allah* *Commentaries and Analysis  * *Defecting Prince: Ruling Family “Corrupt and Fabricator”* *CDHR’s Analysis: *Due to “direct horrifying personal experience,” Prince Khalid Bin Farhan Al-Saud announced his defection from his corrupt royal family. He revealed to the world what many Saudi women and men reformers and human rights activists have exposed for decade ...Continue Reading

* * *Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC* *June 24, 2013* *Saudi and Regional State of Affairs * *Commentaries and Analysis  * * * *Arabs: Trapped in Their Superiority Complex  * *CDHR’s Commentaries:** *The ongoing bloody battles between Sunni and Shi’a (Shiites) Arabs in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Bahrain demonstrate the perilous stagnation of educational, social, political (freedom of expression) and economic progress Arab societies have suffered from for ...Continue Reading