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  • The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will participate for the first time in history of the Winter Olympics

    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be participating for the first time in history in the #WinterOlympics, Princess Reema bint Bandar confirmed on Twitter. China’s Xinhua news agency announced earlier in the day that Saudi Arabian alpine skiers Salman Al Howaish and Fayik Abdi had qualified to compete in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

  • Analysis: Shrink to fit: the year Big Oil starts to become Small Oil

    But unlike any other time in their history, BP, Royal Dutch Shell(RDSa.L), TotalEnergies , Equinor (EQNR.OL) and Italy's Eni are focusing on returning as much cash as possible to shareholders to keep them sweet as they begin a risky shift towards low-carbon and renewable energy.

  • Why the World Needs Partnership with Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia’s Global Humanitarian and Development Aid

    This paper will shed light on the Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to developing countries worldwide. The KSA has contributed significantly to the well-being of many developing countries. However, for quite some time, such valuable assistance was not publicized enough in the media nor reflected in international aid platforms.

  • Meet the Woman Helping to Restore Jeddah’s Historic Al-Balad Quarter

    “Your performance is low,” Dr. Rawaa Bakhsh tells me with a laugh, referring to the fact that we’ve hardly made a dent in the piles of food sitting in front of us. The table is groaning with breakfast dishes—three types of Egyptian foul bean stew, Indonesian martabak pancakes, Afghan tameez bread, pots of milky Adeni tea, and Royal Masoub, a Yemeni banana pudding made with bread, cashews, clotted cream, and honey, topped with grated cheddar cheese that I mishear as “Jeddah cheese.” It may as well be. “We love that stuff,” Bakhsh says. “We put it on everything.”

  • 2022 Look Ahead: Saudi Arabia’s booming entertainment sector is just getting started

    Five years on, the thirst for entertainment in Saudi Arabia is plain to see. In the space of just two months, up to 8 million people have taken part in Riyadh Season 2021 — a cultural extravaganza that was unheard of just half a decade ago.

  • Foreign Investment Into Saudi Arabia Falls Back To Earth

    The latest figures from the Saudi Central Bank (Sama), released this week, show inward foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country was $1.75 billion in the third quarter of 2021. That was a sharp fall from the record figure of $13.8 billion in the April-June quarter, which had been boosted by a deal for the pipeline network of energy giant Saudi Aramco.

  • Saudi and Israeli foreign ministers joined State Department virtual meeting on Omicron

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's virtual meeting with foreign ministers about the Omicron coronavirus variant last week included the ministers from both Saudi Arabia and Israel, a rare instance where the two countries who do not have formal diplomatic relations participated in the same call.

  • PIF’s $40bln investment plan to boost growth of startups in Saudi Arabia

    Saudi Arabia continues to focus on efforts to spur the growth of startups in the Kingdom to help boost the national economy, as is evident from the recently announced Saudi budget 2022. According to Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan, the MENA region’s largest economy is expected to post a surplus of SR27 billion in 2023 and SR42 billion in 2024.

  • Saudi Arabia’s First Contemporary Art Biennale Kicks Off Arts and Culture Programme

    As part of this partnership, DGDA will support on several aspects of the Biennale including the volunteer program, artwork commissions in At-Turaif, school trips to the Biennale and workshops. These elements are meticulously designed to invite both local communities and international cultural consumers to an inclusive experience.

  • Saudi artist Abdulrahman to perform his experimental project ‘The Hope Will Never End’ at Maraya in AlUla

    An improvisational composer, independent, experimental singer and musician, Abdulrahman Mohammed’s passion lies in creating Arabic improvisational composing, combining it with Western, Indian, Mediterranean musical types, such as acoustic, indie, folk, progressive, light jazz, and instrumental Arabic songs.