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
ICIJ: David Kenner on Germany and the Panama Papers
“Plaintiff seeks to anonymously sue Germany for alleged breach of contract to share revenue raised due to Panama Papers’ tax fraud investigations,” by David Kenner (Saudi Arabia, 2019-2021) and Hamish Boland-Rudder, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, July 13, 2023
Politico: David Kenner on the war in Yemen
President Joe Biden and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have made “common cause” on Yemen.
Exodus from Lebanon
As the country’s best and brightest flee, those who remain are finding it even more difficult to pick up the pieces.