A lot has been made of the King Abdullah Scholarship Program (KASP) established in 2005 to encourage Saudi students to study abroad. It is a truly ambitious enterprise that has propelled 150,000+ Saudi young people abroad with over 80,000 of them coming to the United States.

Stanford University and Saudi Arabia's KACST have launched a new six-year collaborative research partnership to establish a center to develop new liquid rocket fuels for satellite applications, according to the Northern California-based university.