MUST-READS

• How Al-Ula aims to be year-round hotspot as Saudi Arabia reopens to the world

  The Royal Commission for Al Ula (RCU) has appointed an agency to develop the historic tourism destination as a year-round holiday option for domestic and Gulf travellers as part of ambitious plans to attract 2 million tourists annually by 2035. The commission has appointed Aviareps as the destination’s travel trade marketing and communications representative in Saudi Arabia, as well as Bahrain, Kuwait and the UAE with immediate effect.

• West urges Saudi Arabia to release women activists, prosecute Khashoggi killers

  Denmark’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Morten Jespersen, read out a joint statement on behalf of 29 countries -- including Australia, Britain and Canada -- urging the kingdom to “release all political detainees” and voicing concern at the detention of “at least five women activists”.

  • Guardian - G20 leaders urged to act over Saudi detentions as summit approaches
• Saudi Arabia’s Atomic Ambition Is Being Fueled by a UN Watchdog

  Grossi said his agency had offered only limited advice on how to make fuel from uranium, and was “in dialog” with Saudi authorities over granting inspectors access to more people, places and data so they can monitor how uranium potentially produced in the kingdom is used.

• Saudi Arabia pushes soft power by launching new teamLab digital art museum in Jeddah

  The Japanese multimedia collective teamLab will launch a new digital art museum in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by 2023 called teamLab Borderless Jeddah. The Tokyo-based technology group, known for producing crowdpleasing immersive experiences awash with virtual waterfalls and flowers, has entered into a ten-year agreement with the Saudi Ministry of Culture to develop works for the planned museum.

  • The National - TeamLab Borderless: a new digital-art museum is coming to Jeddah in 2023
• Kholoud Attar On Being The First Saudi Businesswoman To Acquire A Film Distribution License

  In honour of Saudi National Day on September 23 Bazaar chats with the founder of Jeddah-based Design Magazine, KAAPH Media – and the first Saudi businesswoman to acquire a film distribution license

• UN passes Saudi resolution to tackle Covid-19

    A Saudi draft resolution calling for a co-ordinated global response to Covid-19 was adopted at the UN General Assembly in New York on Saturday, the Saudi Press Agency said. Presenting the draft, Abdallah Al Mouallimi, the kingdom’s ambassador to the UN in New York, said that the pandemic, “has ravaged our world and resulted in around 1 million deaths in 9 months, and infected 28 million people around the world”.

• Saudi Arabia grants 71 new industrial licenses in August with $426.5mln investment

  The total number of existing and under construction industrial facilities reached 9,350 in August 2020

• Palestinian leadership to reconsider relations with Arab League

  Arab countries had long called for Israel's withdrawal from already illegally occupied land, a just solution for Palestinian refugees and a settlement that leads to the establishment of a viable, independent Palestinian state in exchange for establishing ties with it.

  • Washington Post - Perspective: The Arab tide turns against the Palestinians
  • Washington Post - Opinion: The Middle East is changing. Will Palestinians be left behind?
• The 75th Session of the U.N. General Assembly Opens With a Focus on Renewing Multilateralism

  Efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic will form a key part of next week’s proceedings as global cases continue to rise. On Friday, the General Assembly passed a sweeping resolution calling for “intensified international cooperation and solidarity to contain, mitigate and overcome the pandemic and its consequences.”

  • NPR - Experts Say The U.S. Appears Isolated At The U.N. General Assembly This Year
• Officials: Iran weighing plot to kill U.S. ambassador to South Africa

  News of the plot comes as Iran continues to seek ways to retaliate for President Donald Trump’s decision to kill a powerful Iranian general earlier this year, the officials said. If carried out, it could dramatically ratchet up already serious tensions between the U.S. and Iran and create enormous pressure on Trump to strike back — possibly in the middle of a tense election season.

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