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  • Saudi: AlUla signs IBM to implement smart city project

    MISA has facilitated nearly a dozen investment agreements across aerospace, biotechnology, education and other sectors, illustrating sustained confidence in the Kingdom as a world-class investment destination. International partners in these agreements included:

  • BeIN Sports picks Saudi firm as MENA advertising partner

    Qatar-based beIN, a sports broadcaster said on Wednesday it had chosen a Saudi firm as its exclusive advertising partner in the Middle East and North Africa in a deal that a source put at around $150 million.

  • Saudi healthtech startup Blazma scripts aggressive MENA entry plans to tap rising digital healthcare market

    The startup, which operates a platform connecting medical testing laboratories, healthcare chains and patients, also plans to launch a fundraising plan in two months to finance its growth plans

  • Son of US citizen detained in Saudi Arabia says State Department neglected father’s case

    The son of a U.S. citizen being detained and allegedly tortured by Saudi Arabia over tweets he posted criticizing the kingdom told The Washington Post that the State Department neglected his father’s case.

  • NEOM to open 25hours party hotel in Saudi mega city

    “Both 25hours Hotels and Morgans Originals are ideal brands for TROJENA as we look to deliver extraordinary experiences for residents and visitors seeking luxury, adventure, entertainment, livability, and escape from the status quo,” TROJENA executive director and region head Philip Gullett said.

  • Laila al-Jindan: ‘Art and culture are experiencing their best moment in Saudi Arabia’

    Laila al-Jindan is a Saudi artist; I have a very special relationship with art and I have been aware of this since I was a child, especially with music and drawing, my two great weaknesses. Since I was a child, I used to take piano lessons and spend my free time drawing, which I enjoyed very much. Although I liked plastic arts and drawing, I couldn't devote myself to it, which was my true vocation and what I really liked. At that time it was not a discipline that enjoyed a lot of social support and this made me think about continuing my studies in computer science at university, and I devoted myself to art much later.

  • U.S.-Led Drone Fleet Starting To Come Together in Middle East

    In February, Cooper announced a goal of having 100 unmanned surface vessels patrolling the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, and other regional waters by the end of summer 2023. The region is already home to the year-old Task Force 59, the Navy’s hub for experimenting with unmanned systems and artificial intelligence.

  • US State Department says Iran nuclear deal ‘not our focus right now’

    The Iran nuclear deal is “not our focus right now,” US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Wednesday, noting the administration was instead focusing on supporting the protesters in Iran as efforts to restore the nuclear deal have hit yet another impasse. “The Iranians have made very clear that this is not a deal that they have been prepared to make, a deal certainly does not appear imminent,” Price said at a department briefing.

  • New National Security Strategy Returns Focus to Rules, Partnerships, and American Leadership

    On Wednesday, the Biden administration released an unclassified version of the long-awaited document—it arrives seven months after the Defense Department submitted its classified National Defense Strategy—echoes its predecessor’s 2017 version in its focus on great power competition and China in particular. But the new strategy’s emphasis on America’s place in the international rules-based order marks a return from the Trump administration’s departure, and it also downgrades the Russian threat to “acute,” a step below China’s “pacing challenge.”

  • Economies in Transition – International Monetary Fund Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department Jihad Azour: Audio

    In Season 3, Episode 4 of empowerME Conversations podcast, host and Atlantic Council empowerME Chairman Amjad Ahmad speaks with International Monetary Fund’s Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department Jihad Azour and guest co-host Atlantic Council’s empowerME Director Racha Helwa to discuss the economy and market opportunities of the MENA region, women and youth empowerment, and the development of differing entrepreneurial ecosystems within the region.