WATCH: Iran, Saudi Arabia and Rivalries in the Modern Middle East
Iran, Saudi Arabia and Rivalries in the Modern Middle East
With Kim Ghattas
Moderated by Susan M. Elliott
May 18, 2020
On May 18, the National Committee hosted journalist and scholar Kim Ghattas for a conversation on her new book Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East.
Kim Ghattas is an Emmy-award winning journalist and writer who covered the Middle East for twenty years for the BBC and the Financial Times. She has also reported on the U.S State Department and American politics, and is the author of The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power. She has been published in The Atlantic, the Washington Post, and Foreign Policy and is currently a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. Born and raised in Lebanon, she now lives between Beirut and Washington, D.C. Join the NCAFP as we host Kim Ghattas, a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and author of Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East. Ms. Ghattas will discuss her new book, which examines the modern Middle East and the origins of the bitter rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia.