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KAFD: Saudi Arabia’s ‘City Within a City’ Slated for Soft Opening as Kingdom Gears Up To Be Financial Hub of the Gulf
- September 17,2014
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- Lucien Zeigler
A date has been set for a “soft opening” of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Financial District, a mega project in Saudi Arabia’s capital city that has been under construction for years. Situated on the outskirts of Riyadh, the new development bears the name of a King who has steered a nation through a period of […]
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SUSRIS: The Emergence of the GCC+4 Against ISIS
- September 16,2014
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- SUSTG Team
SUSRIS.com shares an assessment of the surge in recent diplomatic activity from Gulf expert Theodore Karasik, Director of Research and Development at the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis (INEGMA) in Dubai. “A day before the meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia agreed to an American request to provide a base to train moderate […]
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Female Saudi Student Abroad: ‘I can confidently claim that being able to drive has transformed my daily life’
- September 15,2014
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- SUSTG Team
In an op-ed published by the Riyadh-based english daily Arab News, PhD student Hatoon Kadi writes that being able to drive while abroad in the U.K. “has transformed my daily life.” The post, entitled “Memoirs of a Saudi Ph.D. student: Convenience of owning a car,” was published in Monday’s edition of the newspaper. It is the latest […]
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Analysis: Threat of ISIS, U.S. Diplomacy Help Re-build Tested U.S.-Saudi Ties
- September 12,2014
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- Lucien Zeigler
For the U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relationship, what a difference 9 months makes. Less than a year ago, a flood of analysts and commentators were debating whether the U.S.-Saudi alliance would survive what some were calling the lowest point in that relationship in decades. But just 9 months later, with Secretary Kerry in Jeddah for talks on […]
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Nitaqat Three Years On: A Summer 2014 Report Card
- September 11,2014
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- Nathan Field
Four years into the Arab Spring, Saudi Arabia has been an oasis of relative calm and stability in an otherwise tumultuous Middle East region. This is partially because the perceived social, economic and political dysfunction resulting from Arab Spring reform movements has had a sobering effect on Saudi perceptions. In fact, many Saudis consider the […]
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Social Media’s Arab Future
- September 9,2014
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- Richard Wilson
One could argue that of all the repercussions from the Arab Spring in 2011 none will be more consequential than the kickstart of a period of phenomenal growth of social media in the Arab World. The pace is astonishing. Apart from the numbers, what does it actually mean if Saudi Arabia has the highest per-capita […]
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President Obama, Biden, Kerry Meet with Washington’s Foreign Policy Elite for Strategic Dinner
- September 9,2014
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- Lucien Zeigler
U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden hosted a dinner meeting at the White House with several of Washington’s top foreign policy experts on Monday, according to reports. The timing of the meeting yesterday with bipartisan guests “seemed more for Mr. Obama to give his guests, several of whom are fixtures on television […]
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Saudi Arabia Fast-Tracks Nuclear Power to Meet Soaring Domestic Demand
- September 9,2014
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- SUSTG Team
In an excellent round-up of the shifting energy sector in Saudi Arabia, James Conca in Forbes discusses Saudi Arabia’s embrace of nuclear and renewable energy sources to meet demand – an important initiative for the increasingly energy-hungry Saudi society. “Saudi Arabia burns almost a billion barrels of oil a year to produce electricity, this change […]
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Saudi Arabian Northern Border Security Project Breaks Ground
- September 7,2014
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- Lucien Zeigler
Saudi Arabia has begun the first phase of a new border security project along its northern borders, according to the Saudi Press Agency. Phase 1 of the “Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques project for border security” was kicked off at a ceremony in Jeddah with a visiting delegation from neighboring Bahrain. Crown Prince Salman, […]
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‘Changing Tack’: Saudi Arabia Cushions Labor Reform with New Hours, Subsidies
- September 5,2014
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- SUSTG Team
A new draft labor law in Saudi Arabia “would limit working hours at companies to entice new employees” and includes adjustments to recent rules, according to a Reuters report. That report, a thorough look at Nitaqat reform in the Kingdom, found that reforms have had mixed results: [Read the full report from Reuters]
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Asfan Smart CityNew smart industrial city coming up in Asfan
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Russia, Iran and Turkey have started the process of finding a political solution to the conflict in Syria, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said at a meeting of the three countries' foreign ministers in Moscow on Tuesday.
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Trump AdministrationTransactional Partnerships To Define Foreign and Economic Policy in the Gulf
The new Trump administration will likely offer a more transactional view of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, and specifically toward the Gulf states.
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U.S. EnergyAnalysis: U.S. Energy Department unfairly criticised over spending, forecasts
The U.S. Department of Energy has become a lightning rod for criticism in parts of the Republican Party and the fossil fuels industry unhappy about the Obama administration's energy and climate policies.
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BoeingBoeing Defense Headquarters Moving to DC
Leadership of Boeing’s Defense, Space & Security (BDS) unit will be leaving St. Louis, Missouri, for the Washington, DC, area at the start of 2017, although the vast majority of St. Louis employees will be staying at their current location.
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21,39 JeddahSaudi Art Council Announces Details for Fourth Edition of 21,39 Jeddah Arts Initiative
The Saudi Art Council has announced details for the fourth edition of 21,39 Jeddah Arts, an annual program of special exhibitions,
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2017 BudgetSaudis to claim partial victory in taming huge deficit with 2017 budget
Saudi Arabia's 2017 state budget is likely to show Riyadh has shrunk a huge deficit caused by cheap oil faster than expected, which may let it spend more to bolster a shaky economy This year was one of the most painful for the Saudi economy in decades. Growth slowed sharply and speculators bet against the Saudi currency as the government fought to curb a deficit that totalled a record 367 billion riyals ($98 billion) in 2015.
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EgyptEgypt-GCC Partnership: Bedrock of Regional Security Despite Fissures
Whatever their quiet reservations, the Gulf countries will almost certainly continue to regard Egypt as essentially “too big to fail” and Egypt will continue to regard the Gulf countries as indispensable partners in securing the regional status quo and combating religious and political extremism.
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