Saudi Arabia spent $825K at Qorvis Communications during the six-month period ended Sept. 30, a big jump from the $390K outlays received by the D.C. firm during its earlier Justice Dept. reporting period.
The D.C. firm, which the Kingdom turned to in the days following the 9/11 terror attacks, facilitating media interviews for Saudi ambassador Al-Jubeir with the New York Times’ Steven Myers, Washington Post’s Joby Warrick, Washington Post’s Jay Solomon and Reuters’ Paul Eckhart and did outreach to the offices of Sen. John McCain and Congressman Ed Royce (R-CA).
Qoris developed YouTube and Twitter content and arranged think tank meetings for Saudi officials.
Bahrain, the Kingdom’s troubled satellite, held spending steady at $240M. That outlay covered items such as creation of PR Newswire-distributed releases concerning set-up of an organ donor database and efforts to improve ties with NATO.
Bahrain’s king asked the Saudis for military assistance in 2011 to squash an uprising by the island state’s majority Shitte population.
Another Mideast hotspot, Iraq’s regional government of Kurdastan, is the No. 3 foreign client at Qorvis, upping outlays $9K to $70K.
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