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  • Where are U.S. Airstrikes Bombing Islamic State Locations in Iraq From?
     

    Craig Whitlock in the Washington Post reports that recent U.S. airstrikes into Iraq on Islamic State targets are taking off from bases in Qatar and the UAE in addition to aircraft carriers in the Arabian Gulf, but neither government is directly admitting it at this time. That the U.S. is using Gulf allies as their […]

     
  • How Chairman and Owner of the Atlantic David Bradley Played a Key Role in Journalist’s Release
     

    Adam Goldman and Karen DeYoung detail in the Washington Post the role of David Bradley, Chairman and Owner of the Atlantic Media Group, and how the executive worked with an unnamed FBI Agent and Ghanim Khalifa al-Kubaisi, the chief of Qatar’s intelligence service, to free Peter Theo Curtis from captivity in Syria. The article draws […]

     
  • The Good Stuff
     

    So, Walid, this Saudi student at the University of Southern California was in Pennsylvania talking with some Amish farmers about their camels… A lot has been made of the King Abdullah Scholarship Program (KASP) established in 2005 to encourage Saudi students to study abroad. It is a truly ambitious enterprise that has propelled 150,000+ Saudi […]

     
  • Sfakianakis: ‘The great giant of the emerging markets has finally awakened’
     

    Saudi Arabia’s stability in contrast to many of its neighbors in the Middle East region is a cause for optimism for the Kingdom’s economy and future, writes John Sfakianakis in the Financial Times’ Beyond Brics blog. Noting that those who argue that the Kingdom is the next destination for turmoil have “been thinking that for […]

     
  • Stanford, KACST Team Up for Six Year Collaborative Partnership on Aerospace Research
     

    Stanford University and Saudi Arabia’s KACST have launched a new six-year collaborative research partnership to establish a center to develop new liquid rocket fuels for satellite applications, according to the Northern California-based university.

     
  • 35 percent of hotel rooms in Dubai occupied by Saudi Citizens on Summer Vacation
     

    Saudis are escaping the heat in the Kingdom by flocking to destinations abroad, but many aren’t making it far – a recent report in the Saudi Gazette finds that many are flocking to neighboring Dubai, a popular vacation spot for Saudis during the summer months. The Saudi Gazette reports that the high rates of Saudis […]

     
  • Europe’s Role in Bankrolling Terror Groups Around the World
     

    European governments that bargain with Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations for kidnapped citizens are inadvertently filling the coffers of those organizations, according to this report by Rukmini Callimachi in the New York Times. Collectively, these countries are “underwriting jihad,” providing extremist groups with “at least $125 million in revenue from kidnappings since 2008, of […]

     
  • Strike hits shelter in Gaza
     

    He tweeted that coordinates of the shelter in Beit Hanoun had been provided to the Israeli army before the strike as a precaution, an effort to prevent a strike on it. The shelter is in an area in northern Gaza that has been the scene of tremendous violence recently.

     
  • The Saudi Stock Exchange is Opening Up to Foreign Investment
     

    The Saudi Stock Market, also known as the Tadawul All-Share Index or TASI, will open up to foreign investment to money managers outside the GCC for the first time, Bloomberg reports citing the official Saudi Press Agency. “The oil-rich kingdom’s cabinet authorized the Capital Market Authority to allow overseas financial institutions to buy and sell […]

     
  • IP in Saudi Arabia: Why does Saudi society ‘prefer to buy pirated material’?
     

    A guest contributor to the Saudi Gazette lamented the Kingdom’s inability to stop pirating, saying “because of our negligence and violation of intellectual property rights, we have been prevented from buying electronic books from the world’s major providers of such material.” Abdullah Azzam noted that he was unable to purchase ebooks through Google Play because […]

     

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