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  • Culture and Society
    The Saudi artists imagining Western pop icons in Bedouin style

    Clad in Bedouin attire from head to toe, "Sheikh" William of Arabia is smiling, seemingly content with having swapped Kensington Palace for a humble tent and camels.

  • Khalid Al-Falih
    Saudi’s New Top Oil Official Brings Fresh Style to OPEC

    For more than two decades, the people of Vienna have witnessed a peculiar ritual that’s been a firm fixture of OPEC’s regular gathering: the Saudi oil minister’s morning stroll. The walk-and-talk favored by Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s top oil official until last month, typically saw dozens of reporters turn out at dawn to accompany him down the city’s famous Ringstrasse. His utterances on oil policy often moved the market. But not this time.

  • Saudi Green Card
    How Saudi’s US-style green card system would work

    Saudi Arabia will introduce a "green card" system within five years to allow resident expatriates in the kingdom to have more rights in order to improve its investment climate, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Monday.

  • Society
    Love, Saudi Arabian style

    Although Saudis have long cautiously challenged their society’s rigid traditions by using the Internet to flirt and chat, many say social-media networks give them a relatively safe place to pursue flings and even find potential spouses.

  • Culture
    Love, Saudi Arabian style

    Although Saudis have long cautiously challenged their society’s rigid traditions by using the Internet to flirt and chat, many say social-media networks give them a relatively safe place to pursue flings and even find potential spouses.

  • U.S.-Saudi
    Saudi Arabia said to plan Fannie Mae-style mortgage company

    Saudi Arabia is working with the Boston Consulting Group to help start a state-owned mortgage firm similar to the US’s Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as it seeks to develop a secondary market for home loans, people with knowledge of the plans said.

  • Saudi Politics
    Commentary: All in the Family, Saudi Style

    Not since the royal power struggle of the 1950s have the rivalries and conflicts within the ruling family of Saudi Arabia burst into public view as they have in the past two weeks.

  • Health and Fitness
    Lifestyle puts 1 in 4 Saudis at heart attack risk, study says

    Social media are turning Saudis into "electronic potatoes" and contributing to unhealthy lifestyles which leave one in four at risk of suffering a heart attack over the next decade, experts said Friday.