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  • Hajj 2014
    Saudia begins its massive operation to fly Hajis home

    Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) has begun operating more than 1,600 Haj return flights to all destinations from King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah and Prince Mohammed International Airport in Madinah following the end of the annual pilgrimage.

  • Education
    Changing the face of education in Saudi Arabia

    “There are almost no Saudi teachers,” he says. “The vast majority of teachers in Saudi Arabia are not Western expats like me, they’re Egyptians or Jordanians or Syrians or from Yemen. “A lot of them are great teachers, but they haven’t had the sort of grounding that we would have for example in a Master of Teaching program. They need a lot of professional development.

  • Israel-Palestine
    Palestinian Fishermen Face Borders, Bullets

    Under the Oslo accords of the 1990s, Palestinian fishermen are supposed to be able to fish 37 kilometers (20 nautical miles) off the coast of Gaza, but  Israel has tightened that limit to within 11 kilometers (six nautical miles) of the coast due to its security concerns.  Israel’s blockade is affecting the already weak economy in the Palestinian coastal enclave.

  • Non-oil private business activity
    Saudi private sector growth hits three-year high in September

    Non-oil private business activity in Saudi Arabia grew at the fastest pace in over three years last month, buoyed by strong expansions in new orders and employment, a survey showed on Tuesday.

  • Amnesty International
    Rights Group: Saudi Silencing Peaceful Activists

    Saudi Arabia is waging a "systematic and ruthless campaign of persecution" against peaceful activists in order to silence criticism of the state in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, Amnesty International said Friday.

  • Iran
    U.S. think-tank says it located possible blast at Iran military site

    The Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said it had obtained commercially available satellite imagery on which six buildings at Parchin appeared damaged or destroyed.

  • Cell Phone Market
    Saudi Arabia most competitive Arab cellular market for 4th year

    The Cellular Competition Intensity Index results for 2014 revealed that Saudi Arabia tops the score - as the most competitive Arab market - with a 75.86 mark. This is followed by Jordan (73.16 ), Palestine (71.28 ), Iraq (66.65 ), Egypt (63.80 ), Bahrain (62.17 ), Tunisia (60.33 ), Morocco (60.13), Oman (59.43 ), Algeria (58.44 ), Kuwait (56.68 ), Sudan (56.49 ), Yemen (56.01 ), Mauritania (55.97), Qatar (49.12 ), UAE (48.76 ), Lebanon (40.76 ), Syria (34.45 ) and Libya (31.12 ).

  • Egyptian Economy
    Egypt business activity grows at near-record pace in September: PMI

    Business activity in Egypt expanded at a near-record pace in September, a survey showed on Tuesday, with a nascent economic recovery encouraging companies to hire for the first time in nearly 2-1/2 years.

  • Turkey Today
    Essay: Thoroughly Modern Muslim Turkey

    Turks have always grasped better than most that modernity is something of a con game. Through hard experience -- spending decades, say, building what they thought were clean, cutting-edge, concrete apartment blocks only to be told by Europeans that a more modern government would have focused on historic preservation -- Turkish leaders discovered that the best thing about being a modern country is having the money and strength to decide what it means to be modern.

  • NCB IPO
    Jumbo $6 bln bank IPO shows Saudi too big to miss

    For everyone else, the listing is an example of the large opportunities that will soon be available in a fast-growing, relatively well-regulated emerging market that is more stable than most. Saudi Arabia plans to allow direct investment by foreign financial institutions by the end of the first half of 2015, using a framework similar to China’s quota-based system for international investors. With a combined capitalisation worth more than Russia’s main index and equivalent to 80 percent of Brazil’s Bovespa, Saudi Arabia is too big to ignore.