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Google’s Saudi National Day Doodle
On the occasion of the Saudi National Day Google featured a distinctive ‘doodle’ that recognized the celebration. The doodle was inspired by the annual Jenadriyah festival which celebrates Saudi Arabia’s culture and heritage. The Saudi National Day doodle appears when Internet users in Saudi Arabia land on the Google home page.
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Marking Saudi National Day Celebration, U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom Congratulates Saudis on Modernization
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia marks its 84th National Day today, a celebrating 84 years as a unified Kingdom and marking the anniversary of the formation of Saudi Arabia by the late King Abdulaziz. Establishments across Saudi Arabia’s cities were turning green in celebration and local municipalities were preparing events for Saudi citizens today, Arab News reports. […]
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Long Taboo, Cinema to Return to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia will relax its ban on cinema and film-related activities in the Kingdom, according to reports. The change didn’t come with an announcement, but rather, with an adjustment to a feature on the Ministry of Labor’s web portal for entrepreneurs, according to Arab News. Information on how to register for cinema licenses is now […]
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Saudi Arabia’s Labor Ministry Launches Web Site to Handle Complaints, Educate Workers
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Labor has launched the online web portal www.laboreducation.gov.sa to educate expatriate workers on their rights and handle complaints systematically, Arab News reports. Launched on Tuesday, the site “aims to boost awareness about workers’ rights and the rules that regulate the relationship between the employee and employer in the Kingdom,” but the […]
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Fahad Nazer in ‘Foreign Affairs’: Renewing Vows With Saudi Arabia
The U.S. and Saudi Arabia “are ready to let bygones be bygones” as the two nations seek to coordinate in their efforts to fight the Islamic State, but “much will depend on the Obama administration’s ability to articulate a clear long-term strategy for the Middle East — and specifically for the two countries where ISIS […]
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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
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 […]
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SUSRIS: The Emergence of the GCC+4 Against ISIS
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 […]
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Female Saudi Student Abroad: ‘I can confidently claim that being able to drive has transformed my daily life’
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 […]
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Analysis: Threat of ISIS, U.S. Diplomacy Help Re-build Tested U.S.-Saudi Ties
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 […]
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Nitaqat Three Years On: A Summer 2014 Report Card
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 […]
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Saudi Arabia now hiring female domestic workers from 33 countries
The number of countries from which female domestic workers can now be recruited in Saudi Arabia has surged to 33 after several countries have recently been added to the hire list in the kingdom, thus expanding options for employers.The latest additions included Ethiopia, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Gambia.
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Saudi Arabia’s air transport sector sees 26 percent passenger growth, exceeding 112 million in 2023
The air transport sector in Saudi Arabia achieved in 2023 remarkable growth, as announced by the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA). Passenger traffic reached a record-breaking 112 million, reflecting a significant 26 percent increase compared to 2022 and exceeding pre-pandemic levels (2019) by more than 8 percent. This robust performance underscores the successful recovery of the transportation sector from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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$410 billion in investments propel Saudi Arabia’s mining sector growth
Saudi Arabia’s mining sector is undergoing a significant transformation and is gearing up to become one of the key pillars of economic diversification efforts outlined in Vision 2030. The latest report from the National Industrial and Mining Information Center reveals that Saudi Arabia issued 152 industrial licenses in January alone, bringing the total number of operating and under-construction factories in the Kingdom to 11,672. These factories represent a combined investment of SAR1.539 trillion ($410.4 billion).
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Saudi Arabia plans to tap Islamic bond market to raise funding for Neom
Saudi Arabia is looking to raise over a billion dollars for the Neom megacity project from the sale of Islamic bonds, following reports that ambitions for the desert project have been scaled back. Neom is looking into a plan to raise as much as $1.3 billion from Islamic bonds, or sukuk, as it looks to shore up funding for the $1.5 trillion megacity project, according to a Bloomberg report.
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Saudi Arabia’s private sector workers grow to 11.2M in March
The total number of workers in the Saudi private sector reached 11.24 million in March 2024, the National Labor Observatory said. The total number of nationals working in private-sector entities stood at 2.37 million in the same month, of which male and female workers accounted for 1.39 million and 975,700, respectively. Meanwhile, the number of expats working in the private sector reached 8.87 million.
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Saudi Arabia’s Barn’s reaches 700 stores ahead of planned global expansion
Alongside further expansion in Saudi Arabia – the largest branded coffee shop market in the Middle East – Barn’s is also expected to open its first international store this year. In December 2023, a Barn’s official told World Coffee Portal that the chain would make its overseas debut in Bahrain during the first quarter of 2024.
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This Lava Tube in Saudi Arabia Has Been a Human Refuge for 7,000 Years
When ancient humans pushed into the Arabian Peninsula, they found a world marked by magma. Swaths of it once erupted from volcanoes, leaving a landscape of craters and frozen lava flows. Many of these seemingly otherworldly volcanic fields are adorned with archaeological remains — from small dwellings to colossal animal-corralling structures called kites — that date back millenniums. Little is known about the identities and lives of those humans. But a study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One has revealed that their occupation of this volcanic realm extended underground. Archaeologists at a site in northwestern Saudi Arabia have excavated a lava tube — the naturally hollowed-out subterranean remnant of a lava flow.
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An uneasy alliance of Arab states helped defend Israel from Iran. Their resolve may soon be tested.
“Those Arab countries are in a very critical situation,” said Oraib Al Rantawi, director of the Al Quds Center for Political Studies, a think tank based in Jordan’s capital, Amman. “There is no easy position to take for all of them, especially Jordan, which for geopolitical reasons has found itself trapped between two troublemakers — Iran and Israel.”
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Saudi Energy Giant ACWA Power Secures $80 Million Loan From Bank Of China For Uzbekistan Solar Drive
Saudi-based ACWA Power recognized as the world’s largest private water desalination company and a frontrunner in energy transition with a focus on green hydrogen, secured an equity bridge loan from the Bank of China amounting to $80 million to fund its Tashkent 200MW Solar PV and 500MWh BESS project in Uzbekistan.
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