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• Ease of doing business: Saudi Arabia Drops 4 Slots to 26th Overall in World Bank Ranking for 2014
  • October 29,2013

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  Saudi Arabia is second in the Middle East in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business report and 26th overall, according to the recently released 2014 report. The placement represents an overall drop of 4 slots in the coveted ranking since 2013, when the Kingdom was ranked 22nd overall. 

   
• SUSRIS Interviews Prince Turki Al Faisal on Recent Developments in the U.S.-Saudi Relationship
  • October 26,2013

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  Following his candor at the National Council on US-Arab Relations’ Policymakers Conference in Washington, our partner site SUSRIS features an exclusive interview with Prince Turki al Faisal.

   
• Meet Joseph W. Westphal, the U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
  • October 22,2013

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  Army Under Secretary Joseph W. Westphal, the second-highest ranking Army civilian, is the front-runner to be the next U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, according to a report. Al Kamen, who last week reported that outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia James. B. Smith is slated to join the Cohen Group, confirms in the Washington Post that Westphal is […]

   
• The Remarkable Photos of SUSTG Student Ambassador Khalid Habash Show A Unique Perspective of the U.S.-Saudi Forum
  • October 20,2013

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  An ‘original’ student volunteer from the first U.S.-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum in Chicago in 2010, Khalid Habash is a master with the camera, an excellent communicator and always willing to help. So, when SUSTG began its selection process to identify 15 top-flight Saudi students to be founding members of our Student Ambassadors Program, Khalid was […]

   
• The Staying Power of Gulf Monarchies: Why the Middle East’s Monarchies Survived the Arab Spring
  • October 17,2013

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  In a report for the Brookings Center in Doha, F. Gregory Gause tackles the question: why have Gulf Monarchies showed staying power during the Arab Spring? The Gulf monarchies that “have been written off for decades as anachronisms” have outlasted many of their republican neighbors, Gause argues, because a combination of “hydrocarbon wealth and coalitions of […]

   
• UPDATE: Saudi Arabia Declines Seat on the U.N. Security Council for Two Year Term
  • October 17,2013

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  Saudi Arabia has been elected to the United Nations Security Council as a non permanent member, a seat the Kingdom will hold for two years. However, a Foreign Ministry statement said that it would decline to take the seat. Reuters reports that a “decision of such magnitude would have to have been taken by King Abdullah […]

   
• RUH -> LAX: Saudia Expands Nonstop Portfolio to Los Angeles, California
  • October 10,2013

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  Saudia, formerly known as Saudi Arabian Airlines, announced recently that it would begin nonstop flights from Los Angeles, California to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, starting in April 2014. The announcement was advertised to attendees of the U.S.-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum in Los Angeles, where Saudia had a physical presence to make the attendees aware of the […]

   
• Social Media: Connecting U.S.-Saudi Forum Attendees, Speakers, and Followers Around the World
  • October 2,2013

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  Social media played a key role in connecting the speakers, attendees, and followers worldwide during the U.S.-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum presented in Los Angeles September 16-18, 2013. The Saudi-US Trade Group (SUSTG), in coordination with the top-flight Saudi members of the SUSTG’s Student Ambassador Program, organized this social media effort across all major platforms, including […]

   
• U.S. Commerce Secretary: Saudi Economy at an ‘Exciting moment as it moves to a more knowledge-based economy’ – VIDEO
  • September 23,2013

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  In her keynote address to the U.S.-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum in Los Angeles, the Honorable Penny Pritzker, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, noted that the United States and Saudi Arabia have a strong trade and investment relationship which has tripled in the last decade. The more than 1,100 private sector and government leaders from both the […]

   
• How stable is Saudi Arabia? Five experts consider the question.
  • August 20,2013

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  • Richard Wilson
   

  Sada, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s online journal focusing on the Middle East, poses the question, Is Saudi Arabia Stable?, to five experts.  The responses look closely at trends that could threaten Saudi stability.  Though occasionally dire, they are generally thoughtful and the points of emphasis are varied.  They are also short and to the […]

   
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