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  • Video Released by King Abdulaziz Center for National Dialogue Asks Youth to Rethink Biases
     

    A powerful video campaign released by the King Abdulaziz Center for National Dialogue asks Saudi youth to rethink their biases. Joseph Braude at the Foreign Policy Research Institute shares the video with English subtitles, which has garnered 150,000 views in 48 hours and sparked a discussion in the kingdom about how to stem sectarian conflict. As Braude […]

     
  • SACM Career Fair and Graduation Ceremony Begins Tomorrow as Saudi Students Converge in D.C.
     

    This weekend, thousands of Saudi students and their families will converge in the Washington, D.C. area at the Gaylord National Harbour hotel for the 2015 SACM Career Fair and Graduation ceremony, a unique and impressive celebration of the accomplishments of Saudi Arabia’s future workforce. Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Scholarship Program (KASP) sends over 100,000 Saudi […]

     
  • Why California Can Learn from Saudi Arabia’s Water Challenges
     

    California has serious water challenges as Governor Jerry Brown issued a mandatory restriction on usage for the first time. Writing on revealnews.com in an excellent in-depth examination between the two countries, Nathan Halverson notes that Saudi Arabia’s challenges with water present lessons for the largest state in the U.S. Halverson dives into the history of […]

     
  • Saudi Arabia’s Brig. Gen. Ahmad Asseri Puts Daily Face on Saudi Strikes into Yemen
     

    As Saudi Arabia’s airstrikes into Yemen extend into a third week, the government’s daily face of the campaign is Brig. Gen. Ahmad Asseri, who gives a daily press briefing featuring photos, videos and other images highlighting the Saudi strikes into Yemen. These photos and videos have been released and disseminated to Saudi media and are circulated […]

     
  • Saudi Arabia’s Golden Opportunity to Reform Energy Subsidies
     

    With low oil prices, Saudi Arabia and other energy producers that subsidize domestic prices have a golden opportunity to reform those schemes. Will they? According to an IMF official in remarks made last year, Gulf states spent an average of 10% of GDP subsidies in 2013, a total of $160 billion annually. As a whole, the Middle East and North Africa region accounts for nearly […]

     
  • Spain’s Abengoa and AWT to Develop the World’s First Solar-Powered Desalination Plant in Saudi Arabia
     

    [Press Release] Spain’s Abengoa (MCE: ABG.B/P SM /NASDAQ: ABGB), the international company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainability in the energy and environment sectors, has been selected by Advanced Water Technology (AWT) to jointly develop the world’s first large-scale desalination plant to be powered by solar energy, in Saudi Arabia. AWT is a newly formed company […]

     
  • John Kerry’s Remarks at U.S. Chamber of Commerce Middle East Commercial Center Leadership Dinner
     

    In an energetic and wide-ranging speech delivered to guests attending the Middle East Commercial Center Leadership Dinner on Monday night at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Secretary of State John Kerry praised the work of the Center and the development of business relationships between the United States and the Middle East region.  Secretary Kerry shared […]

     
  • Google on a Camel
     

    Google’s Street View has provided 360-degree views of locations around the globe since 2007.   Street View cameras have been deployed on boats, underwater and now, Raffia, a 10-year old camel. Writing for The National, Lindsay Carroll reports on Raffia’s walk in the desert around the Liwa Oasis carrying a specialized camera. The Liwa Desert […]

     
  • Saudi Aramco: Not Your Ordinary NOC
     

    Last month Saudi Aramco opened a 50,000 square foot, state-of-the-art research center in Houston that Saudi Aramco President and CEO, Khalid Al-Falih called, “an upstream research center like no other.”  It will be an extension of Saudi Aramco’s Exploration and Petroleum Engineering Center’s Advanced Research Center (EXPEC ARC) and it’s Research and Development Center both […]

     
  • At C3 US-Arab Business Summit in New York, Experts Discuss Opportunities
     

    On Monday, business and government officials gathered in New York City for the C3 U.S.-Arab Business Summit to discuss opportunities and key issues to the region. In his Keynote address, UAE Businessman Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor, Chairman of the Al Habtoor Group, discussed his path to success and how he built his business empire over […]

     

MUST-READS

  • New $5 million fines for polluting Saudi waters

    The list of offenses includes oil pollution and spills of hazardous material, leaks and loss of naval cargo in the Kingdom’s internal waters, territorial waters and the region adjacent to it, the exclusive economic zone or the continental shelf. The new rules ban the removal of rocks, pebbles, beach sand and marine sediment.

  • The Taliban’s return has plunged the Middle East into uncharted waters

    Both routes -- military polarization and increased diplomacy -- are already being trial ballooned. When Israel and the UAE made their covert relationship official last year, they embarked on a whirlwind honeymoon that blindsided most observers. The agreement has seen them cooperate broadly and apparently intensively on technology and, potentially, on security.

  • Generation Start-up: how this Saudi company is helping farmers cut water use

    For a company that started out as a way for two researchers from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or Kaust, to apply their research, Red Sea Farms has come a long way. Earlier this month, the Saudi Arabia-based agriculture technology start-up raised a total of $16 million from an enviable roster of investors. But ask its chief executive Ryan Lefers and he admits that it was not always easy for him and his co-founder Mark Tester to approach investors with their basic premise – to use salt water in agriculture.

  • Saudi Arabia starts tendering process for second water transmission pipeline PPP

    Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC) issused on Wednesday an Expression of Interest (EOI) notice for the Rayis – Rabigh Independent Water Transmission Pipeline (IWTP) project with a transmission capacity of 900,000 cubic metres per day (m3/day). The 100-kilometre long water pipeline project is the second IWTP project to be tendered by SWPC after the 400,000 m3/day Ras Mohaisan–Baha-Makkah IWTP.

  • PROJECTS: Saudi Arabia announces preferred bidders for three wastewater PPP projects | ZAWYA MENA Edition

    Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC), the principal offtaker for water and wastewater projects in Saudi Arabia, announced on Wednesday the preferred bidders for three wastewater public-private partnership (PPP) projects. In statements posted on its website, SWPC said the consortium of Acciona Agua, International Water Distribution Company (Tawzea) and Tamasuk Company has been selected as the preferred bidder for Madinah 3, Buraydah 2 and Tabuk 2 Independent Sewage Treatment Plant (ISTP) projects.

  • The Middle East Is Draining Its Water Supply

    A combination of climate change and unilateral initiatives by three of the region’s governments has dramatically lessened the supply of water. If these challenges are not addressed, the results will be devastating to the livelihood and survival of hundreds of millions of people and other living beings, and the resultant tensions have the potential to fuel even greater conflicts than we see at present.

  • Saudi’s SWPC issues prequalification tender for Ras Mohaisen – Baha – Makkah water transmission pipeline

    Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC), the principal offtaker for water and wastewater projects in Saudi Arabia, announced last week that it has issued Request for Qualification (RFQ) for Ras Mohaisen – Baha – Makkah Independent Water Transmission Pipeline Project (IWTP) to interested companies.

  • In bid to boost water security, Saudi Arabia to begin cloud seeding project in Asir, Baha

    Jalal stressed that by using the low-cost technology, the Kingdom will be able to increase the water reserves in the dams and the aquifer reserves as well to enhance its water security. The project seeks to enhance the Kingdom’s water reserves in light of the scarcity of rainfall, which does not exceed 100 milliliters annually and will contribute significantly to increasing the rainfall rate from 5 to 20 percent over the coming years.

  • Saudi Arabia Halts Sale of One of World’s Biggest Water Plants

    Saudi Arabia has halted the sale of one of the world’s biggest desalination plants citing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the deal, which had attracted interest from investors including France’s Engie SA and Riyadh-based Acwa Power. The Ras Al Khair desalination and power plant, on Saudi Arabia’s east coast, had cost more than $7 billion to build. The suspension is a setback for the kingdom’s privatization plans, which the government had been hoping to accelerate this year.

  • Lebanon’s water system on brink of total collapse, says UN

    Lebanon's water supply system is on the verge of total collapse, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), in what would mark the latest development in the eastern Mediterranean country's slide into chaos. More than 71 percent of the country's population — over 4 million people including 1 million refugees — are at immediate risk of losing access to safe water, UNICEF said on Friday.