MUST-READS

• Yemen in Crisis
  Saudi Arabia says talks to end Yemen crisis to be held in Riyadh

  Saudi Arabia said on Monday the Gulf Cooperation Council had agreed to host talks in Riyadh to end the Yemen crisis, the state news agency SPA said, quoting a statement by the Saudi King's office.

• Society and Daesh
  11 times the Middle East mocked the Islamic State

  It's a bad situation, but all across the Middle East, we've seen people respond to the threat posed by the Islamic State with jokes, satire and mockery – the name generally used to describe the group in the region is Daesh, for example, a label the group hates. Sometimes the mockery is crude, sometimes it gets lost in translation, but it's still remarkably impressive to see a whole variety of people standing up to a humorless enemy with humor.

• Saudi Energy Policy
  Analysis: Living the Saudi Dream

  Saudi Arabia wants it all: to salvage OPEC, achieve income diversification and industrialization, and preserve its market share in crude oil, petroleum products, petrochemicals, and natural gas liquids (NGLs). Whether the Saudis succeed will be determined largely by the shale-energy industry in the United States.

• Hillary Clinton
  State Department to Review Clinton’s Emails

  Secretary of State John Kerry says the State Department will move immediately to review emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote on her personal account when held his job.

• Nitaqat Regulations
  Saudi Arabia Clarifies Method for Calculating Saudization Percentage under the Nitaqat Programme

  However, the Nitaqat rating will be based on a moving average of this ‘Weekly Saudisation rate’ over the past 26 weeks, and accordingly the overall Nitaqat rating will take longer to improve. Conversely, a short-term reduction in Saudi national headcount of a company will not have a significant adverse impact on the overall Nitaqat rating of a company if it has maintained a healthy Saudisation rate in the past 26 weeks.

• Raif Badawi
  Members Of Congress Call On Saudi Arabia To Release Blogger Raif Badawi

  More than sixty members of Congress sent a bipartisan letter to the king of Saudi Arabia on Tuesday calling for the release of all prisoners of conscience imprisoned for exercising their basic right to freedom -- including blogger Raif Badawi and lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair.

• Saudi Executions
  Saudi executions set ‘unprecedented’ pace

  Saudi Arabia has beheaded dozens of convicts, including foreign drug traffickers, since the start of the year in what Amnesty International calls an unprecedented pace of executions.

  • Arabian Business - Saudi human rights head defends death penalty
• Mohammed bin Naif
  ‘Exceptional’ Royal amnesty for Qat-smuggling convicts in Jazan Province

  All prisoners arrested in Jazan for smuggling qat, a kind of narcotic leaf, into the Kingdom will be released under an amnesty declared by Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif, second deputy premier and minister of interior.

• Labor
  Expats have right to keep their passports in Saudi Arabia; “Anybody violating this rule will face serious penalties”

  As per Article 13 of the act, employers must notify the nearest police department as well as the Labor Office when a worker absconds so as to ensure there are no lawsuits or complaints against the employer.

• Saudi-Turkey
  Are Turkey, Saudi Arabia working together against Iran?

  Turkish and Saudi views on regional issues do not always coincide, both Ankara and Riyadh have kept their bilateral relations away from regional squabbles.

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