Dr. Foley presented a paper in June 2024 on why Riyadh is a center for culture in the Arab World to a conference on artistic hubs in and of the Arab region. The international conference was [...]
Dr. Foley spoke to Sophia University in May 2024 about Japan’s special role in Saudi modernity and reform. The talk was jointly sponsored by Waseda University and Sophia University. Akita [...]
Dr. Foley presented “Vision 2030 and the Saudi Film Industry” to the annual conference of the Japanese Middle East Studies Association (JAMES) in May 2024. His panel at JAMES included Waseda [...]
Dr. Foley presented “A Kingdom of Many Colors: Art, Reform, and Saudi Arabia in the Twenty-First Century” to “The 3rd Tsinghua Area Studies Forum—Developing Countries in the Age [...]
On May 23, 2023 Dr. Foley spoke with Dr. Hatem Alzahrani, a leading Saudi poet, about the arts in contemporary Saudi Arabia and Changing Saudi Arabia: Arts, Culture, and Society in the [...]
On March 30, 2023, the Islamic Civilization & Societies Program at Boston College hosted Dr. Foley’s talk entitled “Art’s Mission is Freeing Life: The Creative Class and Social Change in [...]
Today The Palgrave International Handbook on Israel published Dr. Foley’s chapter on cigarettes and national life in Israel. Entitled “A Model Market: Cigarettes and Modern [...]
On February 21, 2023, the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington published Dr. Foley’s piece, “Listen to the artist: U.S. and Saudi Artists Develop Cultural Ties.” In the piece, Foley and [...]
On July 25, 2022, the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington published Dr. Foley’s piece, “The Meccan Modernist: Hatem Alzahrani, Poetry, and a New Saudi Synthesis” In the piece, Foley examines [...]
On July 15, 2022 Dr. Foley spoke with 966 podcast hosts Richard Wilson and Lucien Zeigler about the arts in Saudi Arabia and his recent scholarship on the subject, including a recent project on [...]