MUST-READS

• Haia
  Briton Man and Saudi Wife Scuffle with Religious Police

  Eyewitnesses told Al-Hayat that the victim named Peter Haworth was in one of the malls with his wife when several members of the religious police started pursuing him till the cashier’s counter, which was manned by a Saudi woman.

• Saudi-France
  Saudi Crown Prince holds talks with Hollande

  Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz held talks in Paris on Monday with President Francois Hollande on bilateral cooperation in various areas, including combating the rise of terrorism in the Middle East region.

• Islam
  Proposal to move Mohamed’s tomb in Saudi Arabia sparks debate

  The controversial proposals are part of a consultation document by a leading Saudi academic which has been circulated among the supervisors of al-Masjid al-Nabawi mosque in Medina, where the remains of the Prophet are housed under the Green Dome, visited by millions of pilgrims and venerated as Islam’s second-holiest site.

• Ebola
  Saudi suspends labour visas for nations worst-hit by Ebola

  Saudi Arabia has stopped granting visas to workers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the countries worst-hit by the deadly Ebola virus, the labour ministry announced Monday.

• Aramco
  Saudi Aramco seeks interest for work on unconventional gas-sources

  The search for gas has been a priority for Saudi Arabia as it struggles to keep pace with rapidly rising domestic demand. Aramco plans to produce as much as 200 million cubic feet per day of unconventional natural gas by 2018 to supply the Waad al-Shamal project and a power plant. Inspired by a shale gas surge in the United States, which has transformed it from the world's largest gas importer to an exporter, Saudi has begun investigating its large unconventional gas reserves.

• Hajj
  Saudi Arabia begins to receive pilgrims for this year’s Hajj

  The first batches of a total of 235,000 pilgrims from India and Bangladesh arrived on Wednesday in the Kingdom for this year’s. An Air India flight carrying 235 pilgrims from Kolkata arrived at Madinah’s Prince Muhammad International Airport at 12.00 p.m. while 419 Bangladesh pilgrims landed at the Hajj terminal of King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah.

  • The National - Woven with devotion: the sacred Islamic textiles of the Kaaba
  • Saudi Gazette - Elegant and Exquisite — Lebanese, Saudi, Emirati clock towers among the world’s 17 most beautiful
• Labor
  Saudi Arabia denies axing shorter work week plan

  Saudi Arabia’s Labour Ministry has denied reports it has axed plans to reduce the working week from 48 to 40 hours and introduce a two-day weekend, according to local media.

• MERS
  Study finds little spread of MERS-CoV in Saudi households

  The standard thinking on MERS-CoV is that it doesn't spread very easily, other than in healthcare settings with weak infection control precautions. A new study looking for transmission of the virus in the households of Saudi Arabian patients in 2013 seems to fit well with that view, though it has some limitations.

• Oil
  Saudi crude exports fall in June as domestic demand rises

  Saudi crude exports fell in June to their lowest levels in almost three years as oil use in the country’s power sector rose and local refineries processed high volumes, official data showed.

• ISIS
  Iraq and Syria pose Saudi dilemma – failed states or Iran proxies

  What the Al Saud dynasty most wants in both countries is a stable government with strong Sunni representation that could act as a bulwark both against what they see as Iranian expansionism and a Sunni militant ideology that threatens their own rule.

  • Washington Post - Fareed Zakaria: A second Sunni Awakening?
  • Washington Post - Ignatius: Can Saudi Arabia help combat the Islamic State?
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