David Kenner is exploring the economic changes underway in Saudi Arabia. He is focusing on how the new generation of Saudis is adapting to that change, and its members’ hopes for the years ahead. David has reported widely from across the Middle East for more than a decade. He was Foreign Policy‘s Middle East editor from 2013 until 2018, when he guided the magazine’s regional coverage while based in Egypt and Lebanon. A lifelong student of Arabic, David is a graduate of Georgetown University, and also attended the American University of Beirut. He is particularly interested in how American values and interests intersect with Middle Eastern politics.
Dispatches from David Kenner
Saudi Arabia had big plans for 2020. Then the pandemic struck
The coronavirus is challenging the kingdom’s social and economic order.
Why Saudi Arabia can’t win in Lebanon
Economic crisis is revealing the endemic problems of foreign influence.
In Lebanon, protest anger simmers under curfew
Political and economic failings threaten government’s Covid-19 response.