MUST-READS

• Global Oil Markets
  How Long Does A ‘Typical’ Oil Downcycle Last?

  BP highlights the fact that it has historically taken up to 2 years for prices to complete a deep decline and then undergo a recovery.

  • Quartz - The real question about oil: What, exactly, is going to blow up?
  • Newsweek - Cheap Oil Puts Russia's Economy in Tailspin
  • Reuters - Supply the key commodity driver as demand takes a back seat: Russell
• Iranian Politics
  Nuclear Negotiations Highlight Iran’s Internal Tensions

  From the political point of view, the Iranian government has so far paid a very high price for their nuclear ambitions. Various power centres within the Iranian political system have openly criticized the country’s nuclear strategy at various periods.

• Labor
  Shortage of Saudi women for textiles, tailoring job

  The Ministry of Labor faces a shortage of qualified Saudi women to replace expatriates in the textiles and tailoring industries, al-Watan reported.

• Women Driving
  Saudi extends detention of women drivers

  Two Saudi women detained nearly a week ago for violating the kingdom's female driving ban were ordered held for 25 more days on Sunday, a relative told The Associated Press.

• Internet Media
  7 ways Saudi Arabia is silencing people online

  Raif Badawi is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Saudi Arabia, mainly for setting up a website. We talk to another local blogger – who has to remain anonymous for their own safety – about different tactics the authorities use to silence people online.

• U.S. Energy
  Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General

  The email exchange from October 2011, obtained through an open-records request, offers a hint of the unprecedented, secretive alliance that Mr. Pruitt and other Republican attorneys general have formed with some of the nation’s top energy producers to push back against the Obama regulatory agenda, an investigation by The New York Times has found.

• Family Owned Companies
  A Blow to Saudi Arabia’s Family Firms

  Family-owned companies are among the most significant pillars for the development of the Saudi economy. They account for a significant proportion of the Kingdom’s large and medium-sized enterprises. In previous years, these family-owned businesses have made striking improvements in the way they are managed following a wave of problems, failures and bankruptcies that hit some of them as a result of disputes over inheritance after the death of their founders.

• Education
  UC Berkeley professor criticizies Saudi university’s recruitment process of world’s top researchers

  It was enough to inspire Pachter to conduct his own review of the newly minted rankings. His inquiry revealed that KAU had aggressively recruited professors from a list of top scientists with the most frequently referenced papers, often referred to as highly cited researchers.

• U.S. Secretary of Defense
  Obama to nominate next secretary of defense tomorrow

  Current and former officials say that Obama will nominate Ashton B. Carter, a physicist and former academic who previously served as the Pentagon’s second highest ranking official, for the job.

  • Defense One - Hagel Says the Decision To Leave the Pentagon Was Mutual
• Pakistani Taliban
  Pakistani Taliban squeezed by Afghan revolt, U.S. drone strikes

  Pakistani Taliban militants holed up in Afghanistan are being squeezed by U.S. drone strikes and a revolt against them, a trend that could disrupt the insurgents' capability to strike in Pakistan. For years, Pakistani Taliban commanders fighting the Pakistani state have been hiding in remote areas of east Afghanistan, plotting attacks and recruiting.

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