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• soudi Arabia
  All about the unwanted, rewrapped gift | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  Whenever, I read in the classifieds column of someone wanting to hock an unwanted gift I think of the poor sod who gave it. There he is wrapping it up in colored paper and sticking a card to it with best wishes and all that and what does the recipient do, he puts an ad in the papers looking for buyers. Here is an unwanted gift, any bids please. Imagine the giver picking up the paper with the coffee in the morning and yawning back to bed. He scans the columns and his eye alights upon this legend: For quick sale, an ormolu clock with filigree work and silver etchings, unwanted gift, good as new. So, he shakes awake his wife. Look at this, he says, there is an ad for a clock just like the one we gave the Shankars, what a coincidence, maybe we could alert them and then they can have a pair of ormolus.

• Memoirs of a Saudi Ph.D. student: At a loss for words | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  THE complexities of the English language never cease to amaze me. When I was applying for my Master’s degree in 2008, I was confident that I would not need any additional English language course prior to starting my Master’s program. According to my own “biased judgment,” I thought I was proficient enough to easily get enrolled in the degree program. I was confident that I would easily achieve the IELTS score (band 7) in the very first attempt.

• Will Friends of Yemen follow through? | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  As the “Friends of Yemen” meet in London on April 29 to coordinate international support for Yemen’s transition, the question many Yemenis have is “Will they actually follow through?”

• The elephant in the room | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  Poor old Tony Blair is condemned to spend the rest of his life trying to justify his decision to help George Bush invade Iraq. He was at it again recently, insisting that the threat of Islamist extremism is the great problem of the 21st Century. Western countries, he said, must put aside their differences with Russia and China in order to “cooperate” in the fight against radical Islam

• Marrying a non-Saudi | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  the first case, the Saudi husband gets legal authorization to marry a non-Saudi wife. He gets married, has children, obtains for his wife a Saudi nationality and he lives happily ever afte

• Health Ministry needs overhaul | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  Health Ministry needs overhaul

• Preparations for Haj to begin early

  Haj Minister Bandar Hajjar announced Wednesday that his ministry would begin allocating spaces for pilgrims at the holy sites of Mina and Arafat among the Tawafa organizations next week. “The move...

• EGYPT
  Sisi, Sabbahi, and the Future of Egypt’s Economy

  At the end of March, Egypt’s high electoral commission  announced the dates of Egypt’s presidential elections. As expected former Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced his candidacy joining long time activist Hamdeen Sabbahi in the race for the presidency.

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  SUSTG – The Saudi-US Trade Group | Your front page for all things Saudi.

  At the recent Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Moscow, Princess Loulwa al-Faisal, Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees & General Supervisor of Effat University in Saudi Arabia provided the following written statement on the progress that ... Continue Reading

• BrycieHarps
  Nationals star Bryce Harper works hard to take care of his body

  VIERA, Fla. — Bryce Harper’s diet veers between world-class athlete and overgrown kid, which makes sense because that’s what he is. Harper pours glutamine powder into yogurt-and-fruit shakes and drops amino vitamins into homemade organic juice. He also scarfs his mom’s made-from-scratch cooking. He sneaks Klondike Bars, Starbucks pumpkin spice lattes and Double Stuff Oreos

  • IMF ‘strongly’ welcomes ECB interest rate cuts
  • Saudi Investment Bank sells SR2 billion sukuk
  • Alhokair signs SR1bn loan deal
  • Gulf region ‘poised for new era of travel’
  • Fakeih: 80% drop in MERS infections
  • SR1bn loan deal
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