Report on February 3rd, 2018 Conference: U.S. Saudi Coalition: bringing peace or war? The five speakers at the conference had all varying points of view around the the topic of U.S./Saudi relations. The first two speakers had a view from perspective of being from the Arabian Peninsula, while the last three scholars had unique American views of the relationship. In short, one could classify the two perspectives as those struggling for liberation of the Arabian Peninsula from Saudi terror and trying to preserve and/or enhance American liberty in post-911 atmosphere of degrading Constitutional rights. The first speaker, Dr. Aisha Jumaan, offered a statistically detailed presentation of the human catastrophe going on in Yemen, as a result of the Saudi imposed war on that ancient country. More than fourteen million people require immediate humanitarian assistance and seven million are at risk of famine. The Saudi war on Yemen has been going for three years, now; far beyond t
Roots Of Conflict, hence Report on March 18th, 2017 conference Heritage of Colonialism in the Arabian Peninsula: Past and Present “ The roar of the words is stronger that the sound of bullets ” and “ The whole oppressed should unite and stand together against the oppressors ” - Martyred Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr As Mohammad al-Nimer , the son of the martyred Sheikh , recites his father’s words at the conference. Roots Of Conflic t (ROC) came together via November 19th 2016, Roots of Terrorism Conference. There, a group of us decided that the focus should not be on ideology of terrorism and instead to explore the entities and histories behind the phenomenon. Thus, ROC was formed and as a first project, the March 18th 2017 conference was launched : Heritage of Colonialism in the Arabian Peninsula . Here, the focus was on the Saudi regime rather than ideology, whose presence is questionable. Besides, trying to fight notions is like shadow boxing; As, we beli