MUST-READS

• Saudi’s first female GM: “It’s my aim to make a difference”

  In recent years, the Arab nation has been pushing hard into Saudisation in its hospitality sector, announcing last summer that it plans to reach 100 percent Saudisation in hotels, banning expats from holding managerial roles in the process.

• Dr. Khaled Al-Yahya, secretary-general of the Council of Saudi Chambers

  Al-Yahya has served as deputy secretary-general of the Saudi Secretariat of the G20 since 2018. He has been a board member of the National Center for Strategic Development in Saudi Arabia since 2017. He is also a member of the Riyadh Economic Forum.

• Egypt cuts highways across pyramids plateau, alarming conservationists

  Egypt is building two highways across the pyramids plateau outside Cairo, reviving and expanding a project that was suspended in the 1990s after an international outcry. The Great Pyramids, Egypt’s top tourist destination, are the sole survivor of the seven wonders of the ancient world and the plateau is a UNESCO world heritage site.

• 23 soldiers, 31 militants killed in clashes in Afghanistan: officials

  At least 23 Afghan soldiers and 31 militants were killed and several fighters wounded in separate clashes in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar and western Badghis provinces during Wednesday night, as peace efforts being made, provincial officials confirmed on Thursday. In Nangarhar province, 20 soldiers and 29 militants were killed and 15 security forces and 20 militants were wounded when security forces repelled militants' attacks in Khogiani, Shirzad and Hesarak districts, provincial government spokesman Attaullah Khogiani told Xinhua.

  • Brookings - The fate of women’s rights in Afghanistan
• Why ‘Kafala’ Labor Rules Are an Issue in the Gulf

  For decades, Gulf Arab states have attracted scrutiny for migrant sponsorship rules widely criticized as abusive to the foreigners who make up large parts of their labor forces. Governments have taken gradual steps to reduce the scope for exploitation under the so-called kafala system, and in August, Qatar became the first to guarantee foreigners a minimum wage regardless of nationality.

• Saudi Arabia to host first Mideast regional office of UN’s global tourism body

  The office will cover 13 countries within the region, and will serve as a platform to build long-term growth in the travel and tourism sector of the Middle East

• GCC small business ‘boom’ to drive post-COVID economy

  Experts are predicting a GCC “SME boom” as a new wave of regional entrepreneurs emerge out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Commercial registrations have seen triple-digit increases in recent months with tender boards across the region awarding tens of millions of dollars in contracts to these enterprises.

• Opinion: Israel’s Peace Deals With UAE and Bahrain Are a Strategic Nightmare for Iran

  In point of fact, ever since the 1979 revolution that gave birth to the Islamic Republic, Arab-Israeli schism over Palestine has supplied the Iranian revolutionary establishment with political ammunition in its ideological campaign against the “cancerous tumor” of Israel as well as the “global arrogance” of its allied “Great Satan.”

  • Defense News - Opinion: The Abraham Accords: Who Benefits?
• Saudi Arabia looks to close gender pay gap

  The ministry said that “the employer is prohibited from distinguishing between their workers, whether during the performance of work or when hiring or advertising it, such as sex, disability, age, or any other form of discrimination.”

• Gaza violence flares after Israel signs deals with Gulf states

  Militants fired two rockets into Israel on Tuesday night. One hit the coastal city of Ashdod, wounding two men. Another barrage of 13 rockets was launched before dawn on Wednesday. In retaliation, the Israeli military bombed sites in Gaza it said belonged to the Palestinian group Hamas.

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