MUST-READS

• Norway Model
  Opinion: Saudi energy experts, read my lips

  Oil and gas is very important for Saudi Arabia and now we are simply burning it to cool our homes and buildings and we subsidize many strategic commodities such as electricity, fuel at the pump and the highly expensive desalinated water. In Norway, they pay ten times what we pay at the gas pump. At the end, Saudi energy experts, please read my lips. Look at Norway and do it their way. Oil will not be here forever and we have future generations to look after.

• Raef Badawi
  Harsher sentence for held Saudi activist

  An appeals court in Saudi Arabia has upheld the conviction of a human rights activist for "insulting Islam", ordering him to be jailed for 10 years and be lashed 1,000 times.

• KSA and IS
  Viewing the Islamic State from Riyadh’s Perspective: A Conversation with Fahad Nazer

  I think that scholars who have carefully studied the process of radicalization and the history of militant Islamist movements are virtually all in agreement that no single factor accounts for the spread of militant groups across the globe. Rather, the “answers” lie in a a multilayered complex combining historical, political, cultural, social, psychological and economic factors and that ideology/religious indoctrination is only one component of an often lengthy process. Some have even suggested that ideology plays a relatively minor role.

• Afghanistan
  Afghanistan’s election stalemate casts shadow on NATO summit

  After nearly 13 years of war in Afghanistan, NATO leaders had hoped at this week’s summit in Wales to hail the first democratic transition of power in the country and to reaffirm a commitment of military and monetary support beyond the departure of international combat troops at the end of the year.

• Nitaqat
  Jobs for Saudis: Nitaqat rules tightened

  The Labor Ministry, which intends to tighten its noose on private firms that are reluctant to Saudize jobs, said newly employed Saudis should stay with a company for at least six months to be counted as a full Saudi worker under the Nitaqat program.

• FSA
  Tense relations between U.S. and anti-Assad Syrian rebels

  This should be the hour of coordination and brainstorming between the U.S.., its allies in Europe and the Middle East and the leadership of the appointed western-backed fighters. But according to Gen. Abdul-Ilah al Bashir, the FSA’s embittered chief of staff, they just aren’t talking.

• Islamic State
  Saudi court jails 17 for seeking to fight in Iraq

  A Saudi Arabian court jailed 17 men for up to 26 years on Monday for seeking to fight in Iraq and funding militants, official media reported, part of a security crackdown in which scores have been imprisoned in recent weeks.

• Public Health
  Ensuring Ebola-Free Haj

  During the Haj season, the Kingdom is faced with many challenges. These challenges can range from threats of terrorism to deadly accidental fires and from massive road accidents to deaths due to stampede. Now, the threat is in the form of diseases, such as Ebola. During the past month, Ebola broke out in many western African countries. The way its symptoms start is in itself misleading for doctors. It starts like flu with fever, headache and joint pains. But, a few days later the symptoms change dramatically to vomiting, diarrhea and bleeding from the gum, nose and gastrointestinal tract. After that, the patient would experience low blood pressure and drastic loss of fluid. Health experts say it is not transmitted through the air we breathe, rather it is transmitted through a patient’s fluids. During Haj we have around three million people in very limited space living side by side with each other for days. So, what can happen and what can be done?

• Arabic
  New modern Arabic-English dictionary launched

  Oxford University Press has announced the launch of a new Arabic-English dictionary which features more than 130,000 words and phrases.

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