Last month, Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir hosted a private round table discussion at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington with a very small group of Washington-based political analysts and Middle East scholars. Fahad Nazer, Senior Political Analyst at JTG Inc., shared his reaction from the meeting on JTG’s blog.
“In this small, less formal setting, Minister Al Jubeir was relaxed, engaging and adopted a more frank tone than he usually does at more formal press conferences.
“A consensus seems to have emerged in Saudi Arabia that maintains that the kingdom has an “image problem” in the West. While some of those holding this view have suggested that there is a systematic and deliberate “campaign” in the Western media to portray Saudi Arabia in the worst light possible, other Saudis think that the onus should be on them to contest this negative narrative. One of the most vocal proponents of the latter view appears to be none other than Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, Adel AI Jubeir.”
[Click here for the full article from Fahad Nazer on the JTG Blog]
