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  • Vision 2030
    ‘The family silver is up for sale’: How the Saudi Aramco share offering marks the start of big changes for the Kingdom

    Saudi Aramco has been "disproportionately reported on," says CEO of investment advisory firm OCO Global Mark O'Connell, given the other changes occurring across the Gulf and in Saudi Arabia in particular, which are "far more interesting."

  • Global Engagement Center
    Analysts Are Quitting the State Department’s Anti-Russia Propaganda Team

    The Obama administration established the GEC in 2016 to counter ISIS’ various online messaging efforts, directing the new office to use data and work with international partners in a bid to undermine extremist propaganda more effectively than State’s previous such unit, the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications.GEC’s toolbox included various outreach efforts, including highly targeted ad buys on Facebook.

  • Solar Power
    Saudi Aramco and start-up partner on waterless solar cleaning solutions

    Under the technology licensing agreement, Saudi Aramco will allow NOMADD to integrate its own fully-automated waterless solar cleaning system with the cleaning system developed by Saudi Aramco’s R&D team based at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Traditional solar module cleaning can be very water-intensive, so a waterless solution would be highly suitable for the water-scarce desert environments of the Middle East.

  • Saudi-Japan
    Saudi FM gifts Japanese counterpart ‘the great great grandfather of iPhone’

    The astrolabe comes with a manual as well so Kono jokingly said it was like an iPhone to which Jubeir replied: “Yes, the great great grandfather of the iPhone.”

  • Israel-Syria
    Israel is courting Syrian ‘hearts and minds’ to keep Hezbollah away

    Israel has watched anxiously as President Bashar al-Assad has taken the upper hand in Syria’s war with the aid of Hezbollah and Iran, its main backer, which are building their presence across the border.

  • Global Oil Markets
    Oil rises as U.S. refineries restart, Irma wanes

    Oil prices rose on Monday as key U.S. refineries began restarts following Hurricane Harvey, which may help revive crude oil processing, while fuel prices fell as Hurricane Irma is likely to clip demand for gasoline and diesel.

  • Russia in the Region
    Even the Saudis Are Turning to Russia as Assad’s Foes Lose Heart

    The Saudis hosted a meeting of Syrian opposition factions last month, pushing for an accord between hardline anti-Assad groups and others less insistent on his immediate departure. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is due in Riyadh for more talks in the coming days, ahead of an expected visit to Moscow by King Salman.

  • Women's Rights
    Saudi sports reforms give girls in the kingdom a running start

    This week means “back-to-school” for millions of students across the globe. In Saudi Arabia, where the new schoolyear begins on September 10, girls have a particular reason to rejoice. For many decades, Saudi women and girls have been effectively deprived of their right to play sports in schools — or even to exercise. Thanks to reforms made over the summer, for the first time, Saudi girls will be able to enjoy this fundamental right.

  • Shailas
    Saudi youth remix traditional rhyming art

    The sight reflects a new trend among Saudis who, after years of listening to more refined music composed by well-known Saudi or Gulf musicians and performed by famous singers, seem to have reverted to a type of entertainment closer to the concepts of their forefathers.

  • Israeli Tech
    From Startup Nation to Tech Nation in the Middle East

    94 Israeli companies are listed on Nasdaq at present. That’s more companies listed on Nasdaq than any other country, barring the United States and China–despite Israel’s meager size in comparison. Additionally, Israel has been said to attract more venture capital and more startups per capita than the rest of the world, raising $4.8 billion dollars in funding last year. 85% of the funding is from international investors.