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  • Women in Sports
    Basketball more than just a game for Saudi women

    Almaeena says basketball is becoming popular among Saudi girls because it offers the camaraderie of a team sport. Basketball is also seen as more societally acceptable since girls can practice in loose, conservative clothes, and the sport can be played indoors and outdoors. From its humble beginning at Jiddah United, the sport has grown into a network of teams in different cities. No formal league exists but women's teams play in privately organized tournaments against a handful of other private schools, universities and club teams across the kingdom.

  • Saudi-Kuwait
    Kuwait Said to Deny Work Permits for Saudi Chevron Staff

    Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members face increasing pressure to scale back oil output as a supply glut from the U.S. and other countries and slower demand growth have pushed down the price for Brent crude, a global benchmark, by more than 20 percent this year. Asia’s market is becoming flooded as the U.S. imports less oil.

  • Jihadists in Syria
    Pro-al Qaeda Saudi ideologue criticizes jihadist leaders in Syria, calls for unity

    The Saudi sheikh, who relocated to Syria in 2013, is no fan of Baghdadi or the Islamic State, which he has criticized for following the "wrong" jihadist program. Muhaysini has been closely allied with the leaders of the Islamic State's jihadist opponents in Syria, including the Al Nusrah Front, which is al Qaeda's official branch in the country. But this hasn't stopped Muhaysini from publicly criticizing those same leaders for failing to prevent the "youth" from falling under the Islamic State's sway.

  • Arabs in Israel
    Israel considers first ever “Arab city”

    Except for some random Bedouin villages in the Negev region, Israel has not built any city or village for the Arab population in Israel since the country's creation in 1948. There are around 1.6 million Arabs in Israel, accounting for around 20 percent of the country's population.

  • Extremism
    Education plays key role in fight against extremism

    An overhaul of the educational system has become necessary amid reports that some deviant ideology is being taught in public schools, where books with objectionable content have been prescribed. This syllabus should also meet the needs of the Saudi markets in terms of providing decent jobs to young Saudis.

  • Healthcare
    Rise in MERS cases prompts Saudi warning to residents

    Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry on Monday urged residents of the world's top oil exporter to renew precautions against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) after a rise in new cases of the disease since early September.

  • Christians in Iraq
    Christians of Mosul Find Haven in Jordan

    Their flight is part of a larger exodus of Christians leaving those Arab lands where religious intolerance is on the rise, a trend that has caused concern among Christians outside the region — including the pope.

  • Saudi Tourism
    Average Saudi tourist spends $11,450 on foreign holidays

    A report that compared spending habits of citizens of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries — Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar — on foreign tourism showed that Bahrainis topped the list with an average Bahraini tourist spending SR45,000 on foreign holidays. The Saudis came in a close second at SR43,000, followed by Emiratis (SR39,000), Kuwaitis (SR35,000), Omanis (SR34,000) and Qataris (SR25,000). Sixty-one percent of Saudis tourists said they prefer to travel with their families, while 37 percent said they prefer to travel alone and the remaining 2 percent preferred large groups. The average Saudi tourist spends SR21,000 on domestic holidays.

  • Petrochemicals
    Saudi’s SABIC, Shell shelve petchem plant expansion in Jubail

    Saudi Basic Industries Corp and Royal Dutch Shell have shelved plans to expand an existing petrochemical joint venture in Saudi Arabia as the results of feasibility studies were not encouraging.

  • Syrian Opposition Forces
    Syrians to be trained to defend territory, not take ground from jihadists, officials say

    Although moderate Syrian fighters are deemed essential to defeating the Islamic State under the Obama administration’s strategy, officials do not believe the newly assembled units will be capable of capturing key towns from militants without the help of forward-deployed U.S. combat teams, which President Obama has so far ruled out. The Syrian rebel force will be tasked instead with trying to prevent the Islamic State from extending its reach beyond the large stretches of territory it already controls.