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  • Tales of the Bedouin–Part XV: The Water of Umm Al Abel

    In 2001, a 40-year-old bachelor from a Saudi Arabian town decided it was time to marry and start a family. After all, family is everything and he was getting older. Who would take care of him in his twilight years? And so it was that he found a suitable wife.

  • Wego And Saudi Tourism Authority Form Strategic Partnership to Promote Tourism to Saudi

    Wego, the largest online travel marketplace in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Saudi Tourism Authority (STA) have announced a strategic partnership to inspire Middle East holidaymakers to visit Saudi after more than a year of hiatus.

  • Libya Oil Output Said to Hit 1 Million B/d on Field-Restarts

    Libya’s oil production has recovered to 1 million barrels a day after militias ended a three-week blockade of several western fields, including the nation’s biggest, according to people familiar with the matter. Government officials reached a deal with a paramilitary force known as the Petroleum Facilities Guard, the people said on Monday. The PFG is meant to protect energy facilities but in recent years has closed some of them to press salary and political demands. In December, the group shut pipelines taking oil from Sharara, Libya’s biggest field, and others to ports.

  • Saudi FM says he looks forward to consolidating partnership with China

    Prince Faisal bin Farhan said he held an intensive meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi during which the two officials discussed strengthening the strategic relationship between their countries.

  • US’s Lockheed Martin, KFUPM partner to upskill Saudi youth

    US-based aerospace company Lockheed Martin is partnering with King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, or KFUPM, on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, or STEM, initiatives to upskill Saudi youth. Both parties aim to increase the number of highly skilled Saudi scientists and engineers, the company said in a statement.

  • Inside the banking struggles of UAE’s start-ups

    Hefty minimum-amount requirements combined with a bureaucratic and lengthy procedure are just some of the hurdles the country’s entrepreneurs face when setting up an account for their small businesses

  • Analysis: Shrink to fit: the year Big Oil starts to become Small Oil

    But unlike any other time in their history, BP, Royal Dutch Shell(RDSa.L), TotalEnergies , Equinor (EQNR.OL) and Italy's Eni are focusing on returning as much cash as possible to shareholders to keep them sweet as they begin a risky shift towards low-carbon and renewable energy.

  • Saudi start-up Foodics acquires Jordan’s POSRocket

    Saudi technology start-up Foodics that serves the retail and food and beverage industries acquired Jordan's POSRocket, the second largest restaurant cloud services provider in the Middle East and North Africa.

  • Why the World Needs Partnership with Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia’s Global Humanitarian and Development Aid

    This paper will shed light on the Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to developing countries worldwide. The KSA has contributed significantly to the well-being of many developing countries. However, for quite some time, such valuable assistance was not publicized enough in the media nor reflected in international aid platforms.

  • Meet the Woman Helping to Restore Jeddah’s Historic Al-Balad Quarter

    “Your performance is low,” Dr. Rawaa Bakhsh tells me with a laugh, referring to the fact that we’ve hardly made a dent in the piles of food sitting in front of us. The table is groaning with breakfast dishes—three types of Egyptian foul bean stew, Indonesian martabak pancakes, Afghan tameez bread, pots of milky Adeni tea, and Royal Masoub, a Yemeni banana pudding made with bread, cashews, clotted cream, and honey, topped with grated cheddar cheese that I mishear as “Jeddah cheese.” It may as well be. “We love that stuff,” Bakhsh says. “We put it on everything.”