MUST-READS

• Saudi Viewpoint
  Opinion: The seven top Saudi priorities – Education, Health, Housing, Women, Media, Infrastructure, Diversity

• Women in Saudi Arabia
  Video: Saudi Arabia is undergoing a “huge transformation”

  Dean Malak Talal Al-Nory told us her students have futures their mothers could only dream of. "It has been a huge change, huge transformation, in almost every way," she told Williams. "It has been a change in the mentality, in the acceptance of women in the workplace."

• Boston Bombing
  Glenn Beck must face Saudi’s lawsuit over Boston Marathon bombing

  The conservative commentator Glenn Beck failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit by a Saudi Arabian student who Beck repeatedly accused of involvement in and being the "money man" behind the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

• Pakistani Nukes
  ′Pakistan could have 200 nuclear weapons by 2020′

  In report released by the US-based Council on Foreign Relations titled Strategic Stability in the Second Nuclear Age, author Gregory D. Koblentz, an expert on arms control and non-proliferation, identifies South Asia as the region "most at risk of a breakdown in strategic stability due to an explosive mixture of unresolved territorial disputes, cross-border terrorism, and growing nuclear arsenals." In this context, Pakistan has the fastest-growing nuclear program in the world. And as Koblentz says in a DW interview, by 2020, the Islamic Republic could have a stockpile of fissile material that, if weaponized, could produce as many as two hundred nuclear devices, roughly equivalent to the size of the United Kingdom's nuclear arsenal.

• Football and Nitaqat
  Angry football clubs claim they cannot meet Saudization targets

  Football clubs in Kingdom are angry at the Ministry of Labor’s decision to list them under the Nitaqat program that aims to improve Saudization levels in the country, Al-Sharq reported. They said the decision has left them struggling to ensure they are employing enough nationals. Football clubs said the ruling should not apply to them because they are not part of the private sector Nitaqat is targeting.

• Cyber Attacks
  Report: Iran Hackers Infiltrated Airlines, Energy, Defense Firms

  An Iranian hacker group has breached airlines, energy companies, defense firms and even the US Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, according to the US cyber security firm Cylance. The firm says these attacks — dubbed Operation Cleaver — showcase a dangerous leap forward in Tehran’s cyber skills as it seeks to retaliate against Western cyber attacks on its nuclear program. The goal of these attacks was apparently infiltration and information gathering, with motives beyond intellectual property theft.

• Women Driving
  Human Rights Watch urges Saudi to free women held in driving case

  During October, dozens of women drove in the kingdom and posted images of themselves doing so as part of an online campaign supporting the right to drive. In response, the interior ministry said it would "strictly implement" measures against anyone undermining "the social cohesion". Activists say it is not actually against the law for women to drive and that the ban is linked to tradition and custom in the kingdom.

  • Human Rights Watch - Saudi Arabia: Release Women Driving Activists
• Society
  Video: Behind-the-scenes look at life for Saudi women

  Saudi Arabia is clearly changing. There are now more women than men graduating from university, and the government is encouraging them to join the workforce. We met countless professional Saudi women who - despite a legal system that treats them as less-than-full citizens - occupy powerful positions in government and private companies.

• Bab Al-Mandeb
  Houthis’ advance threatens Red Sea countries

  Regarding the possibility of Egypt engaging in a war against the Houthis in the event that they pose a threat on the Red Sea region and the new Suez Canal project, security expert and founder of the International Terrorism Association, Gen. Rida Yacoub, told Al-Monitor, “This war may not be a direct military one, as is the case currently in the Sinai [Peninsula] between Egyptian forces and terrorist groups. It will be an indirect war between Egypt and the Houthis, through the support of the Yemeni army that will provide plans, ideas and intelligence data. It will also supply [Egypt] with the necessary equipment and techniques to get rid of the Houthis.”

• ISIS Origins
  The Islamic State: From al-Qaeda Affiliate to Caliphate

  There has been a scramble by policy makers, militaries, intelligence officials and journalists from around the globe to understand the ISIS phenomenon, resulting in a profusion of unverified and contradictory information.* This study, drawing from a multitude of open sources, seeks to provide a concise overview of the origins, ideology, goals and military operations of ISIS in Iraq and Syria from 2003 to the present in order to help governments understand and deal with this phenomenon.

  • Doha Brookings - Profiling the Islamic State
  • Lobelog - The ISIS Phenomenon: How Does It End?
• 10 of 57879 results<< 1 … 5,743 5,744 5,745 … 5,788 >>