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Education
Saudi minister’s selfie goes viral
Saudi Arabia’s new minister of education has remarkably broken protocol and allowed the ministry staff and visitors to take selfie pictures with him.
Saudi-India
India, Saudi Arabia ink Haj agreement for 2015
The Haj quota for India for the year would be 136,020 and 100,020 pilgrims would come through Haj Committee of India, while the remaining 36,000 would come through Private Tour Operators.
Saudi-Jordan
$176 million Saudi grant to finance five health projects
The government and the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) on Tuesday signed five grant agreements worth $176 million (around JD125 million), as part of Saudi Arabia’s contribution to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) grant to the Kingdom.
Subsidies
Reform of Saudi subsidies imminent: source
Saudi Arabia is looking to overhaul its costly subsidies system, an informed source told Asharq Al-Awsat on Sunday, at the same time that the governor of the Kingdom’s central bank said the system was “distorting and inefficient” and needed to be reformed.
Pace of Reform
Saudi university backs slow road to modernization
Researchers at top science institute say education will have more effect than vocal opposition.
Tadawul
Saudi petchem stocks extend gains as TASI rises
Rallying oil prices and positive corporate news boosted Gulf equity markets on Tuesday, although consumer stocks in Saudi Arabia pulled back after gaining strongly earlier in the week.
- Reuters - Saudi's Kingdom Holding says sells 5.6 pct stake in News Corp
Geopolitics
Saudi Oil Is Seen as Lever to Pry Russian Support From Syria’s Assad
Saudi Arabia has been trying to pressure President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to abandon his support for President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, using its dominance of the global oil markets at a time when the Russian government is reeling from the effects of plummeting oil prices.
Israel-Palestine
Head of U.N. inquiry into Gaza conflict to quit over Israeli bias claim
Schabas' departure highlights the sensitivity of the U.N. investigation just weeks after prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in The Hague said they had started a preliminary inquiry into alleged atrocities in the Palestinian territories.
- NYT (paywall) - U.N. Names U.S. Judge to Lead Gaza War Crimes Inquiry
Car Culture
The Western world has turned its back on car culture
The majority of the world’s population now lives in cities. And young people are increasingly willing to stay there, unlike their parents, who flocked to the suburbs as their families grew. Nearly two-thirds of American “millennials,” or people born after 1984, live in cities today and some 40% say they’re not leaving. For them, “cars are not as relevant as a status symbol, and getting a license is no longer a ‘rite of passage’ in the way it once was,” writes Davidson.
King Salman's Governance
Sovereign Transition in Saudi Arabia: A Conversation with Dr. Theodore Karasik [Part 1]
I think that the government shuffle is extraordinary for Saudi Arabia at this juncture. Not only did you have twelve governing bodies attached to the Saudi Council of Ministers dissolved but also as you rightly pointed out you had at least ten new people appointed in to the cabinet itself. The most important point here in dissolving of the government bodies is the creation of new councils – two of them.
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