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  • Saudi Arabia’s flag carrier Saudia restarts flights to Istanbul

    Saudi Arabia’s flag carrier Saudia on Saturday resumed flights to Istanbul after a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. A flight operated by the airline landed at Istanbul Airport on Saturday from Jeddah with 130 passengers on board.

  • To see Saudi Arabia, start with this ‘magical’ gateway to Mecca

    Along with its vast deserts and remarkable archaeological ruins, Saudi Arabia has Jeddah—the maritime gateway to the country’s sacred sites—to show off. In all, 650 18th- and 19th-century white-plastered, coral stone buildings. in Al-Balad (Old Jeddah), a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2014. Now is the time to visit, during a magical interlude after it has been refurbished but before the holiday hordes arrive.

  • U.S.-Saudi Relations Finally Start to Thaw

    President Biden and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may not like each other, but they desperately need each other—and time for rapprochement is running out. Imagine for a moment that Saudi oil suddenly disappears from world markets—or its supply is severely curbed. The immediate effects would be massively higher prices at the pump, further collapse of the Democrats’ bleak prospects at the polls, disruption of the crown prince’s modernization agenda, and a greatly emboldened axis of Russia, China and Iran. Both Iran and Russia, with China their silent partner, have strong incentives—and real capabilities—to make this scenario a reality and force the world to lift embargoes against their oil sales.

  • Saudi Economy Grows by 9.6% in 1st Quarter of 2022, its Highest Since 2011

    The figures reveal that the GDP has made the highest growth rate in 10 years, achieving a growth of 9.6% during the first quarter of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021. This was driven by a significant increase in oil activities by 20.4%, in addition to an increase in non-oil activities by 3.7% and an increase in government services activities by 2.4%

  • Digital art museum opens in Saudi Arabia

    The museum, launched by the Tokyo-based art collective teamLab, comprises over 50 artworks spreading across its expansive and labyrinthine spaces, including "Borderless World," "Athletics Forest" and "Future Park."

  • Saudi Arabia witnesses spike in women in tech startup than Europe: Report

    This came in a report released by Endeavor Insight. The report also found that the percentage of women in tech is higher than that of men. According to reports, the participation rate of women in the tech sector stood at 28 percent in the third quarter of 2021, above the European average rate of 17.5 percent.

  • Endeavor launches report on state of Saudi startup ecosystem

    Endeavor Saudi Arabia in collaboration with Endeavor Insight launched its latest research project that studies, analyses, and maps the activity and connections in the entrepreneurial tech ecosystem in Riyadh for the past 20 years.

  • Endeavor launches report on state of Saudi startup ecosystem

    Endeavor Saudi Arabia in collaboration with Endeavor Insight launched its latest research project that studies, analyses, and maps the activity and connections in the entrepreneurial tech ecosystem in Riyadh for the past 20 years.

  • From Resalaty to Unifonic, tracing the Saudi startup’s journey

    It is difficult to recall a time when messaging large numbers of people was impossible, but that was the reality for brothers Ahmed and Hassan Hamdan, who wanted to message the members of a student club at their university in Saudi Arabia. This was back in 2006, when Whatsapp did not exist, Facebook had yet to make it to the Middle East and BlackBerry Messenger had a limit on the number of people one could message in one go. The only alternative was sending emails, but few people had mobile internet connectivity and the way most people kept in touch was via SMS.

  • Desert X Saudi Arabia Asks Viewers to Separate Politics and Art

    Susan Davis, founder and president of Desert X, says the Saudi iteration came about through person-to-person diplomacy, rather than any international intrigue. The connector was Los Angeles–based artist, collector, and Saudi royal Sultan Bin Fahad, whose work “Desert Kite” appears in this year’s show.