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  • Dream of the Desert luxury train to be operational in Saudi Arabia in 2025

    Saudi Arabia Railways (SAR) and the Italian Arsenale Group, which specializes in managing luxury train trips, agreed to launch the Dream of the Desert luxury train service in Saudi Arabia. The Dream of the Desert train, which will have 40 luxury cabins and a maximum capacity of 80 passengers, is due to arrive in Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2025, with the first paying guests scheduled to depart in November 2025.

  • Royal Commission for AlUla CEO arrested for abuse of power and money laundering

    Eng. Amr Al-Madani, CEO of the Royal Commission for AlUla, was arrested over charges of misuse of authority and money laundering involving SR206 million.

    The partners of Al-Madani in a company were also arrested, according to an official source at the Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha). Al-Madani was detained for his involvement in crimes of abuse of power and money laundering through obtaining contracts for the National Talents Company from King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy in an illegal manner.

  • Saudi Arabia welcomes ICJ’s decision against alleged Israeli genocide in Gaza

    The Saudi Foreign Ministry has welcomed the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) initial ruling, which addresses alleged genocidal practices and statements against Palestinians in Gaza.

    The Ministry supports the decision and condemns Israeli occupation practices, as well as violations of the Genocide Convention. The Ministry also commended South Africa for initiating the lawsuit and urged the international community to intensify efforts to end violence in Gaza, protect Palestinians, and hold Israel accountable for alleged violations of international and humanitarian law.

  • Transport Authority mandates uniform standards with abaya option for women drivers

    The Transport General Authority (TGA) has established a new uniform code for bus drivers in specialized transport activities, bus rental and guidance, educational transport, and international passenger transport.

    The regulations, which will become effective on April 27, 2024, are part of an effort to standardize driver appearances in line with public taste, improve service quality, and enhance the overall image of this vital sector serving a wide range of citizens, tourists, and visitors in Saudi Arabia.

  • Neom Is Becoming a Destination of Destinations

    These latest developmental trajectories of Neom progress far beyond the contours of its initial conception. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman launched Neom in 2017, quickly making the ambitious project a cornerstone of his Saudi Vision 2030 and its associated economic and social transformations. The earliest Neom plans envisioned a Saudi special economic zone incorporating Egyptian and Jordanian territory; however, the transnational dimensions of the project eventually faded away.

  • Neom Is Becoming a Destination of Destinations

    There is little to suggest that the astonishing pace of development announcements at Saudi Arabia’s Neom will slow in 2024. Instead, Neom’s planners announced in January a luxury ecotourism retreat called Zardun as well as a “subterranean digitized community of the future,” dubbed Aquellum. On December 27, 2023, Neom unveiled Norlana – an exclusive “ultra-modern active lifestyle community.” The announcement of Utamo, an immersive destination for art and entertainment, on December 13, 2023 reflected yet another of Neom’s efforts to create a “truly unique experience” while simultaneously supporting sustainable development. Similar luxury, ecotourism locations within Neom – Leyja, Epicon, and Siranna – have emerged as conceptual projects in recent months. Also in December 2023, Neom launched a food company, Topian, which aims to foster “a vibrant community of scientists, industry experts and innovators,” and completed the ownership transfer and rebranding of Al Suqor Club to Neom Sports Club.

  • Opinion: The Next Global War

    The United States isn’t facing a formalized alliance of adversaries, as it once did during World War II. It probably won’t see a replay of a scenario in which autocratic powers conquer giant swaths of Eurasia and its littoral regions. Yet with wars in eastern Europe and the Middle East already raging, and ties between revisionist states becoming more pronounced, all it would take is a clash in the contested western Pacific to bring about another awful scenario—one in which intense, interrelated regional struggles overwhelm the international system and create a crisis of global security unlike anything since 1945.

  • The best things to experience in Saudi Arabia according to the people who know it

    Closed to tourists until recently, Saudi Arabia is still an unknown quantity for many would-be travelers.

    That’s changing fast. The country reported a 56% growth in international arrivals in 2023 from 2019 pre-pandemic levels, according to the UNWTO.

    So, where are some of the best places in this emerging tourism destination to go?

  • Perspective: Deciphering Blinken’s Unguarded Optimism

    No reputable analyst would doubt the need to end the bloody conflict in Gaza as soon as possible and to divert the attention of the warring parties to peaceful regional endeavors, for which Blinken called. But the rosy picture he depicted was quite surprising, to say the least, in light of the continued bloodletting in Gaza facilitated and supported, financially and militarily, by the Biden administration. The White House still refuses to call for a permanent halt to the fighting despite its daily perfunctory nod to the massive human toll on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

  • Davos Dispatch: The case for optimism amid global upheaval

    Amid the geopolitical gloom that pervaded the World Economic Forum here this past week—with intractable wars in Europe and the Mideast and unsettling tensions in Asia—International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva made a case for optimism, quoting the legendary economist John Maynard Keynes. Georgieva reminded a select group of global political, business, and civil society leaders of Keynes’ words from a 1930 essay, written against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the rise of communism and fascism, and national and international despair (the meeting was off-record, but Georgieva approved this to be shared publicly):