Georgetown Hosts Foley Book Launch
On February 20, 2019 the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University will host the launch of Dr. Foley’s new book, Changing Saudi Arabia: [...]
Changing Saudi Arabia
Lynne Rienner press has published Dr. Foley’s Changing Saudi Arabia: Art, Culture, and Society in the Kingdom. The book is a detailed study of the Kingdom’s artistic movement and how it [...]
Georgetown University magazine publishes Dr. Foley’s article on Saudi art and his new book on the country’s creative class.
Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service Center for Contemporary Arab Studies publishes Dr. Foley’s article, “Saudi Arabia’s Artists of Change” in its fall [...]
Dr. Foley Lectures on Saudi director Meshal al-Jasr at NYU Abu Dhabi
Dr. Foley presented “Arabia’s Ambivalent Auteur: Meshal al-Jasr Cinematic Vision for a new Saudi Arabia” to the Film and Visual Media in the Gulf Conference, NYU Abu Dhabi in [...]
Dr. Foley Lectures on Saudi Arabia & Smoking at Oxford
Dr. Foley delivered a paper on smoking, Islam, and society in Saudi Arabia to the Oxford Symposium on religious studies at Oxford University in August 2018.
Dr. Foley Lectures on the Modern Saudi Arts Movement to JAMES
“To Go With the Grain: The Rise of Saudi Arabia’s Modern Artistic Movement.” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for Middle East Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, [...]
Dr. Foley Comments on the Civil War in Syria, Western Airstrikes
Dr. Foley spoke with the podcast “The Road to Now” on April 27, 2018 about the U.S./European airstrikes in Syria, the country’s civil war, and the growing tensions between Iran [...]
Dr. Foley Lectures on Tobacco in Oman, Iran, and the Middle East to MESA
“The Necessary Evil’: The Toleration of Tobacco in Contemporary Oman.” Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Washington, DC, [...]
Dr. Foley Talks to News Channel 5 (Nashville, TN) about Slavery in Libya
On November 29, 2017, Dr. Foley spoke to News Channel 5 (Nashville) about slavery in Libya and the country’s troubled recent history, including the death of Ambassador Stephens. See the [...]
Dr. Foley Lectures on Smoking and Oman
Dr. Foley lectured on the Western tobacco industry and Oman to the 8th Conference on Ibadi Studies at the University of Tokyo, Center for Middle East Studies, Sultan Qaboos Chair in Middle East [...]