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  • Erdogan Visit Underscores UAE-Turkey Rapprochement is at the Heart of Regional De-escalation

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi February 14 for a state visit that would have been hard to imagine for most of the past decade. Turkey and the UAE were at odds in a range of regional conflicts, notably in Libya, and in a protracted ideational and ideological struggle, along with Qatar, over the political legitimacy of Islamism and the role and future of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Arab world.

  • Smart apps: Saudi Arabia outshines top countries in pandemic management

    I recently returned from New York City, arguably one of the most “time is money” places in the US. While roaming the streets of Manhattan, what struck me was that everyone took out flimsy pieces of paper to show proof of vaccination, a rule imposed for indoor dining at restaurants. While everyone scrambled to dig into their bags to take out that piece of paper, I quickly took out my phone and showed them my Tawakkalna app, where the dates of my vaccination were clearly visible on the screen. Every barista I talked to told me how impressed they were with the “Saudi app,” which they said was among one of the best they’d seen.

  • Smart apps: Saudi Arabia outshines top countries in pandemic management

    I recently returned from New York City, arguably one of the most “time is money” places in the US. While roaming the streets of Manhattan, what struck me was that everyone took out flimsy pieces of paper to show proof of vaccination, a rule imposed for indoor dining at restaurants. While everyone scrambled to dig into their bags to take out that piece of paper, I quickly took out my phone and showed them my Tawakkalna app, where the dates of my vaccination were clearly visible on the screen. Every barista I talked to told me how impressed they were with the “Saudi app,” which they said was among one of the best they’d seen.

  • Neom and MBC partner to establish AAA games development studio in Saudi Arabia

    AAA is a classification within the gaming industry that label games produced and distributed by midsized or big publishers that usually have higher budgets. “We know there is a growing convergence between gaming and the media sector more broadly, so by building one, we are helping the other grow,” Neom’s chief executive Nadhmi Al Nasr said.

  • More than 6,000 athletes to participate in 2022 Saudi Games

    The chosen sports are archery, athletics, badminton, 5x5 and 3x3 basketball, beach volleyball, billiards, bowling, boxing, camel racing, chess, road cycling, equestrian (in the form of endurance jumping), electronic games, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, handball, rowing, judo, jiu-jitsu, karate, kickboxing, muaythai, shooting, sports climbing, skateboarding, squash, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting, wrestling, paddling, karting, sambo, aikido, wushu and balut, a traditional card game.

  • UK Culture secretary Nadine Dorries signs arts agreement with Saudi Arabia

    The UK government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Saudi Arabian state designed to strengthen cultural links between the two countries. Nadine Dorries, the UK Culture Secretary, participated in the signing ceremony at the Diriyah Biennale in the Jax district on the outskirts of Riyadh.

  • Saudi Arabia’s flag will be raised tomorrow as the only GCC member participating in 2022 Beijing Olympics

    Abdi will be the only Saudi Winter Olympian to go and will be competing in the alpine skiing Giant Slalom category. The Saudi skier arrived in the Chinese capital on Thursday in preparation for his historic participation on Feb. 13. Two other Saudis — skiers Salman Al-Howaish and Rakan Alireza — earned enough qualifying points to be eligible to compete in Beijing but Saudi Arabia was only allocated one place at the games.

  • India emerges as Saudi Arabia’s second-largest trading partner

    India’s Department of Commerce found that for the current financial year (April-November), trade between the two countries was $24.9 billion, an increase of 94 percent over the same period last year. It is especially heartening to note that current trends suggest that bilateral trade will surpass pre-pandemic levels.

  • Lebanon’s Hariri expected to announce election boycott, party members say

    Lebanon's leading Sunni Muslim politician Saad al-Hariri is expected to announce on Monday he will not run in a May election that his movement may boycott, party members said, a potential political earthquake during a national financial collapse. Hariri has served as prime minister three times since inheriting the political mantle of his father, Rafik al-Hariri, after his assassination in 2005. But while he remains the leading Sunni, his political fortunes have waned in recent years, with his position weakened by the loss of Saudi support.

  • Blinken to meet Russian counterpart as White House warns Moscow could attack Ukraine ‘at any point’

    Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Geneva on Friday in an effort to resolve the standoff over Ukraine, with U.S. officials warning that a Russian invasion could be imminent. The meeting will follow a week of intense diplomacy as the top U.S. diplomat heads to Ukraine and Germany for discussions on the crisis, the State Department said. Adding urgency to Blinken’s talks is Russia’s fresh deployment of troops to Belarus to conduct major military exercises that will further strengthen the number of Russian forces along Ukraine’s border.