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  • Jadwa September 2012 Saudi Chartbook – Inflation
     

    Jadwa Investment’s recently released Saudi Charbook for the month of September 2012 found that the Saudi economic activity in July experienced a “modest slowdown of economic activity…with indicators of consumer spending and PMI slowing on the back of a seasonal trend.” However, Jadwa notes that the “healthy underlying economic momentum remains in place.” Below is a snapshot of […]

     
  • President Obama’s Envoy to Mecca Islamic Summit Shares Views
     

    A little known detail about last month’s Extraordinary Islamic Solidarity Summit in Mecca was the presence of an American diplomat representing President Barack Obama to the 56-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The special summit, which met on August 14-15, 2012, was called by King Abdullah to take up crises, conflicts and serious issues affecting […]

     
  • Saudi real estate market poised for new boom
     

    New programmes and the new mortgage system — approved by the cabinet in July and expected to take force in the next few weeks — will contribute to decreased land prices, realtors said. Land prices are expected to drop by 20%, especially in the central, eastern and western regions, according to realtors. Residential land prices […]

     
  • Jadwa September 2012 Chartbook – Construction Indicators
     

    Jadwa Investment’s recently released Saudi Charbook for the month of September 2012 found that the Saudi economic activity in July experienced a “modest slowdown of economic activity…with indicators of consumer spending and PMI slowing on the back of a seasonal trend.” However, Jadwa notes that the “healthy underlying economic momentum remains in place.” Below is a snapshot of […]

     
  • Mitt Romney on Foreign and Middle East Policy
     

    This [US election] year is different. There is relatively little attention to issues outside America’s borders – only four percent of Americans “consider foreign affairs much of an issue in this year’s campaign” according to Foreign Policy.com.  The sluggish economy – taxes, unemployment, deficits, thorny domestic issues and “personality” questions dominate the campaigns. With the […]

     
  • Saudi per capita water consumption 91% higher than global average
     

    Per capita water consumption in Saudi Arabia is 91 percent higher than the international average, according to a new report by the country’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC). Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest producer of desalinated water, accounting for at least 17 percent of the total world output. The Kingdom has invested nearly $25 […]

     
  • Jadwa September 2012 Saudi Chartbook – Real Economy
     

    Jadwa Investment’s recently released Saudi Charbook for the month of September 2012 found that the Saudi economic activity in July experienced a “modest slowdown of economic activity…with indicators of consumer spending and PMI slowing on the back of a seasonal trend.” However, Jadwa notes that the “healthy underlying economic momentum remains in place.” Below is a snapshot of […]

     
  • Shoura Council to appoint 30 women
     

    Saudi Arabia is expected to appoint 30 women on the Shoura Council before the consultative body begins its next annual session. “The expectations are that up to 30 women will be appointed to the Shoura,” sources close to the council told Al-Sharq Arabic daily. The newspaper said that talks have already begun with several institutions […]

     
  • The Island of the Arabs
     

    So in 1954 when Aramco’s New York office decided to produce a feature film about Saudi Arabia and the company’s role in the kingdom, they chose Dick Lyford to direct it. The film called Island of the Arabs begins with the early geologists landing in Jubail and then exploring in the desert. While sitting around […]

     
  • Saudis gear up for new academic year
     

    Saudi students, parents and educators are preparing for the new academic year, which begins September 1st. Shaher al-Jeddawi, programme director at a public school in Jeddah, said introducing English language courses in fourth grade is a major step “towards raising the level of education in general”. “The project this year applies to 4,200 schools out […]

     

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  • Swedish firm to build 2,174 apartments for Saudi’s Neom

    Modular housebuilder Scandinavian Industrialised Building System (SIBS) has won a contract to assemble 35 apartment blocks at Saudi Arabia’s huge new economic zone, Neom. The Stockholm company was awarded an engineered-equipment supply contract for 2,174 homes for people working on the planning, engineering, and construction of the 26,500-sq-km zone.

  • Women’s football in Saudi Arabia continuing to flourish

    Saudi Arabia Football Federation (SAFF) Women’s Football Director Aalia Al Rachid has witnessed the phenomenal growth of women’s football first hand. Not only has there been the establishment of the national team, but since 2019, a Premier League and First Division have both launched, along with a league involving 50,000 girls, and approximately 3,600 participating schools.

  • Women’s football in Saudi Arabia continuing to flourish

    The women’s national team hit a landmark moment in March this year when they entered the FIFA/Coca-Cola ranking in 171st place. Almost immediately the challenge was set to successfully qualify for a FIFA Women’s World Cup™.

  • BRICS ministers meet in push to establish group as counterweight to West

    Foreign ministers from the BRICS countries are meeting in South Africa from Thursday as the five-nation bloc seeks to forge itself into a counterweight to Western geopolitical dominance in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The talks are a prelude to an August summit in Johannesburg that has already created controversy because of the possible attendance of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the target of an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant.

  • Türkiye becomes part of Saudi Arabia’s Makkah Route Initiative

    The Makkah Route Initiative, which began in 2019 as part of the "Guests of God Service Program," one of many initiatives in Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, has now reached out to include Türkiye. This initiative is being carried out in Morocco, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Ivory Coast, as well as Türkiye, according to the Saudi Interior Ministry.

  • Saudi citizen’s kidnapping adds new chapter to Lebanon’s chronicle of crime and impunity

    Mashari Al-Mutairi, an employee of Saudi Arabia’s Saudia airlines who lived in the Beirut suburb of Aramoun, was abducted at about 3 a.m. on Sunday. The Lebanese Army’s intelligence directorate found and freed him after a security operation on the border with Syria. He was received at the Saudi Embassy in Beirut by Ambassador Walid Bukhari, who said in a statement: “The released Saudi citizen is in good health, and we thank the army and internal security forces. The security efforts confirm the Lebanese authorities’ keenness to secure tourism security.”

  • Erdogan Overcomes Opposition – and Economy – to Prevail in Presidential Runoff

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has proved he can win a national election without a successful economy; however, he cannot begin to achieve his vision of Turkish greatness without economic greatness as well.

  • BRICS Bank to Expand Membership as Saudi Arabia Looks to Join

    The New Development Bank, the lender created by the BRICS group of nations, will widen its membership as it seeks to boost its capital and counter the influence of Western-dominated multilateral banks. The lender — formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — will look at increasing the diversity of its members in terms of geography, development stages and on the size of the countries, Dilma Rousseff, the bank’s president, said at its annual meeting in Shanghai on Tuesday.

  • The Slowing Down of Israel-Arab Relations Under the Netanyahu Government

    During the Netanyahu government’s first five months, Israel-Arab ties have slowed down and tensions with the Palestinians have increased.

  • US envoy expresses renewed interest in diplomacy to curb Iran nuclear advances: ‘Our goal is to reach a diplomatic outcome with Iran’

    “Our goal is to reach a diplomatic outcome with Iran that would verifiably ensure that Iran can’t acquire a nuclear weapon,” Malley told National Public Radio’s Mary Louise Kelly in an interview broadcast on Tuesday (May 30). “We are not there yet, of course,” Malley continued, adding that it was Iran last August that “turned its back on a very realistic deal.” “We hope that we can resolve this through diplomatic means, and we’re prepared to go down that path,” he said.