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  • Social Media in Saudi Arabia
    Social prompts culture change in Saudi Arabia

    In March, as more than 33,000 people milled around Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest Interactive, one campaign stood out among the startups, apps, and brands vying for attention. Called 10KSA, the initiative was launched by Saudi Arabia’s Princess Reema Bint Bandar Al-Saud and the Zahra Breast Cancer Association with the goal of raising breast cancer awareness. In her keynote, Princess Reema asked attendees to take their photo in front of a set of neon pink wings and share it on social media with the hashtag #10KSA.

  • Climate Change
    5 Ways Climate Change Will Impact The US Military

    “You are part of the first generation of officers to begin your service in a world where the effects of climate change are so clearly upon us,” Obama said. On a deceptively beautiful day on the New London, Connecticut, campus, the president went on to highlight several ways global climate change will impact America’s military in the coming years.

  • Climate Change
    Obama: Climate change a national security issue

    President Barack Obama will use his commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy on Wednesday to label climate change as a threat to military readiness and infrastructure, not merely an environmental danger.

  • Tadawul Opening
    Saudi privatisations may accelerate, stock exchange chief says

    A new government policy-making council in Saudi Arabia may accelerate privatisations of state-owned companies, Saudi Stock Exchange chief executive Adel al-Ghamdi said on Tuesday.

  • Succession
    King’s changes make Saudi policy less predictable

    Changes in Saudi Arabia's leadership have concentrated power in an inner circle of the Al Saud dynasty, removing constraints on the monarch and making the conservative kingdom's strategic positions less predictable.

  • Iranian Foreign Policy
    Opinion: Iran changes its tune on peace talks

    It’s probably no coincidence that Iran’s new interest in regional diplomacy comes as its proxies have faced tougher opposition on the battlefields in Yemen and Syria. In effect, Iran’s Sunni adversaries, led by the Saudis and Emiratis, have decided to push back hard against Iranian-supported forces, by intervening militarily in Yemen and working with Turkey and Jordan to mobilize rebels in Syria. For the first time in many years, Iran seems to be on the back foot in the regional proxy wars.

  • Women
    Powerful domestic abuse ad changed woman’s rights forever in Saudi Arabia

    The first domestic abuse ad ever to run in Saudi Arabia was a watershed moment for woman's rights in a country with a history of gender inequality.

  • Climate Change: Syria
    Study: Climate change helped spark Syrian civil war.

    We know the basic story in Syria by now: From 2006-2010, an unprecedented drought forced the country from a groundwater-intensive breadbasket of the region to a net food importer. Farmers abandoned their homes—school enrollment in some areas plummeted 80 percent—and flooded Syria’s cities, which were already struggling to sustain an influx of more than 1 million refugees from the conflict in neighboring Iraq. The Syrian government largely ignored these warning signs, helping sow discontent that ultimately spawned violent protests. The link from drought to war was prominently featured in a Showtime documentary last year. A preventable drought-triggered humanitarian crisis sparked the 2011 civil war, and eventually, ISIS.  

  • Global Oil Markets
    Game Change: U.S. Oil Revolution Has Torn Up the Rule Book

    In its annual five-year oil market outlook, the IEA, which is the energy agency of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), said that the rise of the United States as a heavyweight crude producer, OPEC’s abdication of its historical role as the arbiter of world oil supply, and sluggish oil demand growth worldwide will have big implications for oil producing and consuming countries alike.

  • US-Saudi
    Donation to CU Denver expands Saudi Arabia-Colorado exchange program

    A University of Colorado Denver program that sends architectural and engineering students to study in Saudi Arabia will expand after receiving a $2 million donation.