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  • As Fasting Ends, the Lessons of Ramadan Linger
     

    Before we began our three-day Eid al-Fitr holiday, marking the end of Ramadan, I came across an article in a Saudi newspaper with a checklist of what makes a successful Ramadan. First on the list: Recognizing that one can change for the better and acquiring patience and strong will. This month my deficiencies have shone […]

     
  • What Islamic Advertising in Saudi Arabia Looks Like
     

    This image of McDonald’s famous Golden Arches — the ne plus ultra of a Western brand — looks jarring in Arabic script. But in the Middle East and parts of Asia, that’s McDonald’s all-American brand.

     
  • Saudis Back Syria Rebels, Mindful of Past
     

    Overcome by the suffering of civilians in warring Syria, a professor in Saudi Arabia’s capital strips off his watch on live television to give as aid. A Saudi bride on her wedding night offers up her entire dowry of $13,000. Parents bring their children to donation centers set up around the Saudi kingdom, watching proudly […]

     
  • Saudi: strongest passenger growth in a decade as market expands
     

    After several years of sagging performance, Saudi Arabia’s aviation market reported its strongest growth in passenger traffic in more than a decade in 2011, even against the background of the Middle East’s regional social unrest. Despite the Arab Spring uprisings in North Africa and some of the Gulf states, Saudi Arabian passenger traffic boomed in […]

     
  • Top 10 salaries in Saudi Arabia
     

    Banking is one of the only sectors in Saudi Arabia to see a dip in compensation in 2012 Salary Survey. Construction project managers now earn the highest monthly salary.

     
  • Seasonality and the Saudi Stock Market
     

    A recently released note by Jadwa Investment discusses the effect that seasonal trends have on the Saudi economy, noting that while all economies have seasonal trends, “for Saudi Arabia these trends are more pronounced than for most other global economies…The slowdown in activity in the third quarter due to the long hot summer is a key driver […]

     
  • Saudi construction sector to gather steam in H2 2012
     

    The Saudi construction sector will further gather steam in the second half of 2012, the National Commercial Bank “Construction Contracts Index” for the second quarter of this year released Saturday indicated. NCB Construction Contracts Index reached 309.12 points by the end of the second quarter of 2012, with the total value of awarded contracts reaching […]

     
  • Saudi Athletes in London
     

    London 2012 was historic for both Saudi Arabia and the Olympic games. Saudi Arabia sent its first female athletes ever to the Olympics, completing a strong talking point for the games’ organizers: London 2012 was the first time every country competing in the Olympics sent at least one woman. Sarah Attar (800m) and Wojdan Shahrkhani (Judo) […]

     
  • Saudi success in show jumping underscores shift in equestrian order, helps its Olympic future
     

    Saudi Arabia appeared on the equestrian show jumping map in at the Sydney Games in 2000 when Khaled Al Eid won an individual bronze. He qualified for London but had to withdraw in July after his horse, Presley Boy, developed laminitis, a painful inflammation of the hoof. Some had considered the Sydney medal a blip, […]

     
  • Many in GCC Prefer to Get Medical Treatment Abroad
     

    While Gallup surveys show that most GCC residents are satisfied with the availability of quality healthcare in their area, outbound medical care remains an expensive problem for Gulf governments, with the UAE alone spending $2 billion per year to send its residents abroad for treatments. Patients may choose to travel abroad because of poor quality […]

     

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  • BNY Mellon plans campaigns to woo investors into Saudi Arabia

    American investment company BNY Mellon is organizing a series of international campaigns to attract and facilitate investments in Saudi Arabia, according to a top official. The company has collaborated with SNB Capital Co., the Saudi Ministry of Investment and Tadawul to put the Kingdom on the global financial map.

  • U.S. Army conduct medical training with Royal Saudi Land Force partners

    U.S. Soldiers with Task Force Hurricane from the 1st Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment, and Royal Saudi Land Force Soldiers conduct a nine-line medical evacuation onto a U.S. Army HH-60M MedEvac Black Hawk helicopter assigned to Task Force Longhorn, at Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, May 25, 2022. Tactical combat casualty care and medical evacuation training are essential skills for the U.S. Army and our allies in order to maintain joint mission readiness and interoperability.

  • Qatar Airways’ Boeing 737 deal has lapsed, UK court told

    Qatar Airways has indicated that a provisional agreement to buy up to 50 Boeing 737 MAX jets has lapsed, Boeing's rival Airbus said in a court document released on Thursday. The deal, signed in Washington in January, is part of a series of inter-locking agreements caught up in a London court dispute between Airbus and the Gulf carrier over a larger jet.

  • Syria: Russian UN veto could threaten aid deliveries to 3m people

    Russia has threatened to veto a UN Security Council resolution reauthorizing cross-border deliveries of vital aid into opposition-held north-western Syria. The closure of the last route from Turkey would immediately put more than 3 million people at risk of starvation. The BBC's Anna Foster has been following one of the last UN aid convoys that could be allowed into the country.

  • United Arab Emirates set to run Kabul airport in deal with Taliban, sources say

    The Taliban and the United Arab Emirates are poised to strike a deal for the Gulf nation to run Kabul airport and several others in Afghanistan that could be announced within weeks, according to sources familiar with the negotiations. An agreement would help the Islamist militants ease their isolation from the outside world as they govern an impoverished country beset by drought, widespread hunger and economic crisis.

  • Amira Al Zuhair, the Saudi model ruling Paris’s haute couture catwalks

    Al Zuhair, 22, is signed to Elite Model Management. In the first days of couture week, she clocked up an impressive four runway appearances for some of the most prestigious houses in the world. Scroll through the gallery above to see Al Zuhair on the Paris Haute Couture Week catwalk

  • US Antisemitism Envoy Claims ‘Middle East Antisemitism Declining’ After Visit to Saudi Arabia

    "For too many decades, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was a great exporter of Jew-hatred, but what I found is something quite different, something that has changed there dramatically in the last few years," said Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt on Tuesday at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Lipstadt gave her remarks at a forum titled "New Tools in Combating Contemporary Antisemitism." The forum was held jointly by the Hebrew University, the U.S. Embassy in Israel, and Israel's ministries of foreign affairs and diaspora affairs. Also a historian and professor, Lipstadt assumed her role as special envoy on anti-Semitism in April 2022.

  • Saudi’s Haramain high-speed train ready to start operations

    The Saudi Arabia Railways (SAR) has completed the preparatory operation for the Haramain High-speed Train before operations, which will start next Thursday, with the start of transporting pilgrims from Mina to Arafat. During the recent months, SAR has carried out maintenance and testing operations for the readiness of trains and stations in line with the highest standards of safety and quality to ensure the operation of the train among nine stations in the holy sites, reported Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

  • Opinion: China-Saudi Arabia Ties Threaten America. Biden Must Reverse Beijing’s Gains.

    When U.S. President Joe Biden visits Saudi Arabia next week, China should be on his mind. His agenda will, of course, include other important matters: recent Saudi commitments to increase oil production, a cease-fire with the Houthis in Yemen, and progress in Saudi normalization with Israel. But the president should also use this trip to argue that deeper ties with China are not in the kingdom’s long-term interest and to show that the United States wants to return to its traditional position as Saudi Arabia’s partner of choice.

  • Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian in West Bank arrest raid

    Israeli forces shot dead a wanted Palestinian suspect and arrested two dozen in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the military said, as tensions simmered ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden's visit to the region next week. Palestinian officials identified the man killed as Rafiq Ghannam, 20, shot by soldiers in the town Jaba near Jenin, where Israeli forces have stepped up raids in recent months after men from the area carried out deadly street attacks in Israel.