In episode 43, the U.S. State Department's Joshua Yaphe joins The 966 to discuss his book, "Saudi Arabia and Iraq as Friends and Enemies: Borders, Tribes and a Shared History." Yaphe is a foreign affairs officer with the U.S. Department of State.
Saudi Arabia is planning to offer several projects to the private sector to tap its massive mineral wealth with a value of more than 40 billion Saudi riyals ($10.6 billion), Zawya reports, citing a local newspaper.
Saudi Arabia's benchmark index, the Tadawul All Share Index (TASI), is the sixth best performing globally "and gains may not be over yet," analysts and fund managers believe, according to Bloomberg.
Episode 35 of The 966 includes a terrific conversation with author, thought leader, and emerging markets expert Afshin Molavi, Senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and founder and editor of the Emerging World n
The U.S. Navy on Wednesday said it was establishing a new multinational task force that would target arms and other smuggling in the waters around Yemen, in a show of support for Saudi Arabia and the UAE with American power after persistent Houthi attacks.
According to a report from the Okaz/Saudi Gazette, the ownership of foreign investors in the Saudi stock market jumped to SR404.26 billion ($107.8 billion), or 3.36 percent of the total market value of the listed companies.
Mae Al-Mozaini, Founder and CEO of the Arab Institute for Women’s Empowerment (Nusf) and former Aramco executive talks with The 966 about her experiences growing up in Saudi Arabia, working with Aramco, and the positive impact Nusf is having by empowering future female Saudi leaders.
Nahdi Medical Co, Saudi Arabia's market leader in retail pharmacies, "aims to raise up to 5.11 billion riyals ($1.36 billion) in the country's biggest initial public offering since Saudi Aramco's listing in 2019," Reuters reports.
Khaled Al-Maeena, Saudi journalist, commentator, businessman and the former editor-in-chief of the Saudi Gazette and Arab News joins The 966 for Episode 28 to talk about Saudi Arabia's role in energy markets, the war in Ukraine, and much more.
