Ben Freeman is the director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy (CIP) and author of a report on the Saudi lobby that will be released in early May 2021.

05.02.2021

• Ben Freeman
• Brian Steiner
• Leila Riazi

Saudi Arabia Is Trying to Sell Its Ultra-Authoritarian Monarchy to Middle America

In recent months, the Saudi lobby has increasingly moved from K Street to Main Street — traveling widely outside the Beltway in a bid to shore up support for the country’s brutal monarchy.