U.S. Foreign Policy and the Modern Middle East

The US and Saudi Arabia Since the 1930s

David Ottaway

June 25, 2009 / Philadelphia

David Ottaway is Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a former correspondent for the Washington Post,

This presentation was part of U.S. Foreign Policy and the Modern Middle East: A History Institute for Teachers, presented by FPRI’s Wachman Center and the American Institute for History Education.

Core funding for the History Institute has been contributed by The Annenberg Foundation and Mr. H.F. Lenfest.

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