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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 […]

   
• 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 […]

   
• 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 […]

   
• Arab States Offer Willingness to Conduct Air Strikes on Islamic State as CENTCOM Chief Visits Riyadh
  • September 15,2014

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  The U.S. has received offers from “several” Gulf allies to aid in airstrikes against the Islamic State, according to the New York Times and several other news outlets as US CENTCOM chief Lloyd James Austin III met with Crown Prince Salman in Riyadh today.  Following President Obama’s announcement that he would drastically increase strikes against Islamic State positions in Iraq, Secretary of […]

   
• 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 […]

   
• John Kerry in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to Coordinate with Allies in Upcoming Battle Against the Islamic State
  • September 11,2014

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  • SUSTG Team
   

  Secretary of State John Kerry is in Jeddah today for talks with the Saudi Arabian government and other allies as the U.S. seeks a broad, cooperative effort in defeating the Islamic State. Saudi Arabia has agreed to provide bases for the training of moderate Syrian rebels who are battling the Sunni militants and the Assad […]

   
• 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 […]

   
• At Dinner with Foreign Policy Experts, Obama Previews Plans to Escalate Attacks on IS Without Congressional Approval
  • September 9,2014

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  When President Obama announced that he would not strike Syria without Congressional approval in 2013 following a chemical attack by Syria’s President Assad, Gulf allies of the U.S. determined to see Assad overthrown were put off at the unwillingness of a U.S. President to follow through on a previously set “red line.” “While I believe […]

   
• Higher Education in Saudi Arabia: ‘The Easiest Part is the Buildings, the Hardest Part is What is Behind the Walls’
  • September 9,2014

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  • SUSTG Team
   

  The 150,000 Saudi students studying overseas and 83,000 in the United States are just one part of Saudi Arabia’s higher education plans, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia James B. Smith said in a recent FocusKSA video with SUSRIS Editor-in-Chief Patrick Ryan.     Saudi Arabia has invested big in infrastructure for higher education, Smith said, and […]

   
• 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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