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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 […]

     
  • 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 […]

     
  • 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 […]

     
  • 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 […]

     
  • 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 […]

     
  • 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 […]

     
  • Social Media’s Arab Future
     

    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 […]

     
  • President Obama, Biden, Kerry Meet with Washington’s Foreign Policy Elite for Strategic Dinner
     

    U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden hosted a dinner meeting at the White House with several of Washington’s top foreign policy experts on Monday, according to reports. The timing of the meeting yesterday with bipartisan guests “seemed more for Mr. Obama to give his guests, several of whom are fixtures on television […]

     
  • Saudi Arabia Fast-Tracks Nuclear Power to Meet Soaring Domestic Demand
     

    In an excellent round-up of the shifting energy sector in Saudi Arabia, James Conca in Forbes discusses Saudi Arabia’s embrace of nuclear and renewable energy sources to meet demand – an important initiative for the increasingly energy-hungry Saudi society. “Saudi Arabia burns almost a billion barrels of oil a year to produce electricity, this change […]

     
  • Saudi Arabian Northern Border Security Project Breaks Ground
     

    Saudi Arabia has begun the first phase of a new border security project along its northern borders, according to the Saudi Press Agency. Phase 1 of the “Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques project for border security” was kicked off at a ceremony in Jeddah with a visiting delegation from neighboring Bahrain. Crown Prince Salman, […]

     

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