Institute for Gulf Affairs explained

Institute for Gulf Affairs (formerly the Saudi Institute) is a Washington, D.C.-based human rights advocacy group and think tank that monitors politics and education in the Middle East.^{[1] [2]} Ali al-Ahmed, a Saudi Arabian scholar and a critic of the Saudi monarchy, is the director and founder.^{[3] [4]}

The institute provides information, analysis and research about the Persian Gulf region and matters of international relations and politics.^[5]

Notes and References

1. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jaIsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=J_4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=1217,5878298&dq=institute-for-gulf-affairs&hl=en
2. Web site: Witnesses: Saudi forces fire on protesters, injure 3 - CNN . 2013-03-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121007020647/http://articles.cnn.com/2011-03-10/world/saudi.arabia.protests_1_saudi-security-forces-saudi-expert-saudi-arabia?_s=PM:WORLD . 2012-10-07 . "Witnesses: Saudi forces fire on protesters, injure 3", March 10, 2011, Jamjoom, CNN
3. Michael Holmes http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0501/19/i_ins.01.htm, "Muslims on Hajj", Aired January 19, 2005, CNN, transcript accessed April 8, 2011.
4. Robert Worth https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/world/middleeast/20saudi.html?partner=rss&emc=rss "Unrest Encircles Saudis, Stoking Sense of Unease," February 19, 2011, New York Times.
5. http://www.gulfinstitute.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22:-iga-overview-&catid=35:iga-overview&Itemid=9 "IGA Overview."