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  • ISIS Doctrine
    Saudis at War With Islamic State Confront Echo of Kingdom’s Past

    A key difference is “the caliphate agenda,” Commins said, referring to the title used by Islamic State’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The revival of a term used by earlier Islamic leaders suggests a wider ambition to rule all Muslims. “That was never part of Wahhabi doctrine,” Commins said. Abdulaziz halted his expansion once most of the Arabian Peninsula was conquered, and turned against the Ikhwan, whose main leaders later surrendered to the British. That history underscores another distinction with Islamic State, that between an established power and an expansionist upstart, according to James Dorsey, a senior fellow in international studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

  • Influential Muslims
    Saudi King Abdullah named world’s most influential Muslim

    The list accords him the place in light of Saudi Arabia being home to Islam’s two holy cities of Makkah and Madina, which millions of Muslims visit throughout the year, as well as the kingdom’s oil exports. Rounding out the top three are Dr Ahmad Muhammad al-Tayyeb, grand sheikh of Al-Azhar University and grand imam of Al-Azhar mosque, and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The top nine are all political leaders and royals, including Morocco’s King Mohammed VI and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

  • Facilities Management
    Facilities Management in KSA: Fit for a king

    With a recent report by MEED Insight noting that there are $417bn worth of construction projects lined up in Saudi Arabia's future, it shouldn't be too hard to figure out why facilities management (FM) companies are all hurrying to start operations in the Kingdom. The country is, after all, seeing some amazing developments being planned and executed, and FM expertise can play a key role in ensuring that these properties, once built, are operated and maintained effectively and efficiently.

  • Global Oil Markets
    Cheap Oil: The Kingdom Strikes Back

    Are the Saudis trying to put the frackers in their place? Perhaps. But it’s more likely that the kingdom is focused, as it has been for the past decade or so, with bringing opposition within OPEC to heel. The Saudis are locked in a struggle with Iran for the control of the cartel, and the two countries now are playing a game of chicken over prices. Both said they intend to keep producing regardless of how far prices fall. Whose economy can hold out the longest? The Saudis are happy to take that bet.

  • Finance
    The Saudi Banking sector and fiscal policy

    The continued build-up of deposits is a positive when the banks can and must play a bigger role in driving economic development. There have been structural developments to accelerate the momentum in certain areas, for example, the mortgage law. But, in general, the banks are essential for driving private sector-led development in an economy that has historically relied very heavily on government provision and investment.

  • Morocco
    From palaces to engine-making: Morocco’s stability is attracting billions in foreign investments

    Morocco has escaped the worst of the unrest that swept parts of the Middle East and North Africa since 2011 from the violent ousting of autocratic governments to the rise of extremist groups such as ISIS. The country’s main Islamist party, which has led the government since winning its first parliamentary elections three years ago, has shied away from challenging the legitimacy of the royal family. King Mohammad VI, in return, devolved some powers to the government and released Islamist activists from jail.

  • Development
    Saudi King Gets New Neighbors as Morocco Evades Regional Turmoil

    The $346 million plan by Jeddah-based Saudi Binladin Group will turn 250 hectares of former local-authority land into homes for 150,000 people, hospitals and an artificial lake.

  • Business
    3M expands its presence in Kingdom

    “Saudi Arabia is at the core of our growth strategy in the Middle East and Africa region and in order to support our rapid growth in the country and the wider region, we will be looking at building our local capability in manufacturing and technical and are pursuing opportunities around this,” said Osama J Hammoudeh , Managing Director 3M Saudi Arabia.

  • Kingdom Tower
    Saudi Kingdom Tower buys world’s largest crane

    With the tower’s foundation now in place, vertical, above-ground construction commenced in September. Plans call for the first ten floors to be completed by the end of the year. The Kingdom Tower features 170 stories, seven stories of which will be allocated for the five-star Four Seasons Hotel offering 200 rooms and121 luxury serviced apartments, and seven stories for offices.

  • Information Technology
    Government IT spending fuels Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s innovation economy

    Overall IT spending in the Kingdom - the Middle East's largest IT market - is set grow by 23 percent from US$ 11.5 billion in 2014 to US$ 14.2 billion in 2017 according to IDC's report 'Saudi Arabia Vertical Markets 2013-2017 IT Spending Forecast'. Government will be the fastest-growing vertical in this period, with a compound annual growth rate of 12.9 percent, according to IDC. Guiding investment is the Kingdom's Ninth Development Plan, which projects a 27 percent increase in government spending from SAR 150 billion in 2009 to SAR 191 billion in 2014.