On February 21, 2019, the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, DC (AGSIW) hosted Dr. Foley’s talk on southern Saudi Arabia, the country’s artistic movement, and social change in [...]
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: [...]
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’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 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 delivered a paper on smoking, Islam, and society in Saudi Arabia to the Oxford Symposium on religious studies at Oxford University in August 2018.
“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 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 [...]
“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, [...]
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 [...]