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  • Can The U.S. Afford A Conflict With Saudi Arabia?

    With US refineries running at 89% of capacity, up 5% compared to this time around last year, it will not be gasoline but diesel that would be under serious upward pressure over the upcoming weeks.

  • Opinion: Who Lost Saudi Arabia?

    All this has left the Saudis feeling unappreciated. They believe that they have supported Western efforts to maintain regional stability, resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and fight terrorism. They continue to trade oil in dollars, which strengthens the U.S. currency and the Western financial order that relies on it. They resent politicians who condemn their production cuts without ever noting their equally frequent production increases.

  • Opinion: Who Lost Saudi Arabia?

    All this has left the Saudis feeling unappreciated. They believe that they have supported Western efforts to maintain regional stability, resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and fight terrorism. They continue to trade oil in dollars, which strengthens the U.S. currency and the Western financial order that relies on it. They resent politicians who condemn their production cuts without ever noting their equally frequent production increases.

  • Are Saudi Workplaces Working for the Kingdom’s Vision 2030?

    Six years later, the Kingdom's Vision 2030 is central to the Saudi experience today: A significant majority of three in four employees (76%) strongly agree that they feel enthusiastic about Vision 2030, according to a 2022 Gallup survey. But although Saudi workers support the program generally, they are less confident about the role of their own organization within that broader vision. Significantly fewer employees (60%) strongly agree that their company is well-positioned to contribute to the vision.

  • Will rich countries pay climate reparations at COP27?

    A bill for climate change is coming due: $4.3 trillion. That’s the sum the US and other major carbon polluters will face at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt next month. It’s the estimated total cost of adapting to climate impacts and transitioning to clean energy as proposed in every countries’ national climate plans under the Paris agreement, according to an Oct. 19 analysis by the World Resources Institute. 89 countries globally requested climate finance, of which most are vulnerable, lower-income countries.

  • The UN Resolution Against Russia’s Ukraine Annexations: How Did the Middle East Vote?

    Most of the region supported the measure, with one nay vote, a pair of notable changes since the March resolution, and several strong statements in support of territorial integrity.

  • Will the Saudis and Donald Trump Save Golf—or Wreck It?

    The enormous sums had a way of revealing priorities even to the players themselves. Johnson told friends he had rebuffed liv offers until he couldn’t anymore. “A lot of guys say D.J. isn’t smart—he’s street smart,” the golfer Davis Love III said. “He told me, ‘I got to a number where I’m willing to take the consequences.’ ” One day at East Lake, while practicing his chipping, Max Homa, a firm Tour loyalist, said that his strategy was to avoid temptation entirely. “I got an e-mail,” he told me. He didn’t read it. “I don’t want to know. My wife told me if I got offered x she’d kill me if I said no.”

  • Kurdistan’s Gas Exports: Reality or Mirage?

    There are a host of serious internal political conflicts as well as legal, financial, and geopolitical hurdles to increasing Kurdish gas exports, prompting questions regarding whether such aspirations are realistic.

  • Iran Protests: Reform, Revolution, or Status Quo?

    The slogans of countrywide protests that began in Iran in September following the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody suggest that Iranians are not demanding reform but a complete change of the country’s faith-based and fundamentalist political system. Amini was reportedly arrested and detained by the morality police for “wearing tight trousers.” Government officials deny any form of violence was used by the forces during her arrest and while she was in custody, but brain scans taken at the hospital raised suspicions that she was severely beaten and died because of multiple brain fractures and internal bleeding.

  • Who are the top 50 developers in the GCC?

    Ranked based on the value of projects, size of land bank, value of new projects launched, and value of new contracts, we run down the top 50 developers in the region