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  • Twitter in KSA
    Saudi mufti blasts Twitter as evil

    “It is very unfortunate that people are asking one another about what had been posted as if it was a reliable and credible source of information when it fact it is a source of lies and misinformation,” he said, local daily Al Eqtisadiya reported on Tuesday. Al Shaikh has in the past blasted Twitter, one of the world’s fastest-growing social media platforms, as a source of misleading information and abuses.

  • Houthis and Yemen
    Beyond the Houthi Takeover of Yemen

    For now, the Houthis’ main opposition is Al Qaeda. What began as a tribal quarrel for revenge and the return of ideology, has quickly gained sectarian elements. On Oct. 9, Al Qaeda detonated a suicide bomb just before a Houthi rally in Tahrir Square, at the very center of Sana’a. The explosion killed 47 people and injured hundreds more. In their statement that claimed responsibility for the attack, Al Qaeda leaders promised “hundreds more bombs” in the future.

  • Saudia
    Saudi Arabian Airlines Plans IPOs of Three Service Units

    Saudi Arabian Airlines plans to raise at least 10 billion riyals ($2.7 billion) through the sale of shares in its ground-handling, cargo and maintenance units.

  • Israeli Public Opinion
    Three-quarters of Israeli Jews oppose detail of Palestinian state, poll shows

    The survey, conducted by a rightwing thinktank headed by a political ally of the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, makes for stark reading, contradicting previous polls showing up to 60% of Israelis in favour of a two-state solution. However, the poll confirms the argument that Israeli support for a Palestinian state is dramatically lower when they are presented with specific details rather than being asked to support the basic idea.

  • Retail Sector
    Saudi Retailer Jarir To Invest $293m In Doubling Stores Over Five Years

    Jarir is one of the stock market’s most direct plays on Saudi Arabia’s rapid population growth and rising incomes, which is why its shares are up 75 per cent since end-2012 compared to a 40 per cent gain for the main market index.

    The company, which sells books, office and art supplies, computers and some other electronics, has grown from a single store in a Riyadh street in 1979 into a chain with 36 stores. Thirty-one of them are inside Saudi Arabia with the remainder in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

  • Oil
    The Energy Revolution’s Impacts on the Arab World

    Turmoil in the world’s hydrocarbon heartland is not good news for anyone, including the United States. Oil has been a fungible commodity for decades and gas increasingly so as a result of the rising share of LNG in the global gas market. Major disruptions to supply from the Arab world would have negative economic consequences even for an energy independent America.

  • Khafji Oil Field
    Saudi, Kuwait Seen Curbing Oil Output at ’Opportune Time’

    Saudi Arabia and Kuwait halted production at a jointly run oil field late this week, a move that could help ease a supply glut that has pushed global prices down 25 percent. The 300,000-barrel-a-day Khafji field, located in the neutral zone between the two countries, was being shut because of environmental concerns, a person familiar with Saudi Arabian oil policy said yesterday, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public. The shutdown comes as Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members face increasing pressure to scale back production while supply expands from the U.S. and other countries and demand growth slows. Asia’s oil market has become particularly flooded as the U.S. imports fewer cargoes.

  • ISIS in the Polls
    ISIS Is Unpopular in the Middle East, but Still Has Some Support

    While the Islamic State is ramping up recruitment around the world, the public is against them in key "coalition" countries, which include Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. A survey—conducted by a commercial firm for The Washington Institute of Near East Policy—polled 1,000 residents of each of those three nations. The interviews were conducted face-to-face by "experienced local professionals."

  • Extremism
    Afghanistan arrests son of Haqqani militant network’s founder

    Afghan forces have arrested the son of the feared Haqqani network's founder along with a militant commander in charge of suicide attacks, a blow to the Taliban-linked Islamist group, Afghanistan's intelligence service said Thursday.

  • US-Arab Military Cooperation
    Serious disagreements remain in U.S.-led coalition battling the Islamic State

    The question is whether such a diverse coalition, whose members have differing objectives, can be herded into agreement on a coherent strategy.