MUST-READS

• Meet the young Saudi Arabian filmmaker who made a road-trip movie: ‘We broke a barrier’

  Anas Alhumaid’s debut short, Oudah, is very much a road-trip film, complete with the genre’s winding dramas, but it's one that tells a contemporary Saudi Arabian story and you’ve probably seen nothing like it before.

• Saudi side Al Taawoun name Frenchman Carteron as head coach

  The 50-year-old won the CAF Champions League crown in 2015 with Congolese side TP Mazembe and also has prior experience in Saudi soccer with a stint at Al Nassr in 2017.

• Saudi workers to get digital skills upgrade

  The move is part of a Ministry of Communications and Information Technology “Future Skills” program, which aims to provide intensive training in digital domains, including data science, information security, communications and technology projects management, web development, artificial intelligence, information technology engineering and blockchain.

• OPEC meeting: Saudi, Russia review oil output cuts amid demand concerns

  Analysts do not anticipate OPEC+ to announce further output cuts on Thursday, though the issue of compliance is likely to resurface amid signs some exporters may have reneged on their commitments.

  • Reuters - OPEC+ panel to meet amid oil price decline, worry of virus impact
  • Reuters - OPEC+ to complete compensations before year-end: Saudi
  • Bloomberg - Saudi Arabia Delivers Public Dressing-Down to OPEC+
• Fitch Assigns Saudi Electricity Company’s Green Sukuk Final Rating of ‘A-‘

  Proceeds from the sukuk certificates will finance and/or refinance in whole or in part green projects focused on procurement and installation of smart meters as well as construction and operation of infrastructure for connecting renewable energy sources to the grid, as further described in SEC's Green Sukuk Framework.

• Sovereign Wealth Funds Bought the Dip in 1H 2020, Shied from Real Estate

  From a low in the first half of 2019, US$ 24.2 billion in direct investments by sovereign funds was tallied in the transaction database versus momentum totals of US$ 84.098 billion in the second half of 2019 and US$ 98.465 billion in the first half of 2020.

• Israel Seeks $8B Arms Deal At White House: F-35s, V-22s, KC-46s

  The new weapons are meant to keep Israel's qualitative edge after President Trump agreed to sell the F-35 to the UAE and Teheran rattles its homemade swords, furious about the new era between Israel and some Gulf states.

• Iran warns US against ‘strategic mistake’ after Trump’s threat

  Trump on Monday promised any attack by Iran would be met with a response "1,000 times greater in magnitude," after reports said Tehran planned to avenge Soleimani's killing in a US drone attack in January near Baghdad's airport.

• In break with past, UAE and Bahrain forge ties with Israel at White House

  In front of a crowd of several hundred people on the White House lawn, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed accords with Emirati Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan and Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al Zayani.

• Saudi designer Princess Nourah Al-Faisal details discrimination by French newspaper

  “I highlighted this incident because we can’t fight these behaviors by keeping quiet and silent. Rasicm and discrimination is everywhere around the world. It’s something we must address… as a society, we have to keep talking about it.”

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