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  • Can Saudi Arabia enter billion dollar female gaming market?

    Female gamers often resort to hiding or ‘anonymizing’ their identity due to the threat of online abuse and other dangers in the male-dominated online gaming realm. Reach3, the global market research firm, surveyed 900 women gamers in the U.S., China, and Germany about the issues they face, and 59 percent reported that they hide their gender when playing video games.

  • Which LIV golfer is most likely to win the PGA Championship?

    The PGA Championship has traditionally been the fourth of four majors, going through a prolonged period earlier this millennium with surprise winners for whom a major win represented the height of their careers. But over the past six years, we’ve seen Justin Thomas and Brooks Koepka win twice each, while Phil Mickelson and Collin Morikawa have each won once. The golf has been very good, and that includes the champions.

  • Deep Dive: How do Turks in the GCC states vote?

    The May 14 elections were the sixth time that Turks living abroad have been able to cast their vote. Although expatriate ballots do not significantly alter election outcomes, they tell a lot about what Turkish citizens residing abroad think about their country’s politics. The results of the recent polls indicate a clear variation in the voting tendencies of expats living in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states, as their voting preferences were divided between the ruling People’s Alliance and the opposition Nation Alliance.

  • How Much Air Conditioning Will It Take to Cool the World?

    A warming world is making the need to stay cool more pressing. Hot countries are getting hotter, tipping normal summer temperatures into dangerous territory more frequently. Temperate countries are experiencing heat waves that were once unthinkable. Globally, an estimated 1.2 billion rural and urban poor are at risk because they currently lack access to cooling, including refrigeration and air conditioning, according to a 2022 report by the research group Sustainable Energy for All. Meanwhile, 2.4 billion middle-class people are “on the brink” of buying the most affordable cooling appliance available to them, the report found, regardless of its efficiency.

  • Opinion: KSA’s silent revolution – is MBS an ‘Arab Deng Xiaoping’?

    The Saudi Silent Revolution augurs well for the Muslim World as most Muslims take their cue from the guardian of the Holy Places, on what kind of society to build and how to place Islam in the quest for modernisation in the 21st Century. MBS has set an excellent example by squarely presenting the two as compatible in building a better and progressive tomorrow for their people.

  • Factbox: What are the deals on Ukraine, Russia grain exports?

    The extension of a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain and fertilizers beyond May 18 hangs in the balance after Russia issued a list of demands linked to a related agreement on its own such exports.

  • Will Kuwait’s third elections in three years break political deadlock?

    Kuwait is gearing up to hold early parliamentary elections next month. While the country held legislative polls last September, the judiciary in March ruled to annul that vote, reinstating the 2020 parliament. The fresh elections have been triggered by the crown prince’s intervention earlier this month to dissolve the 2020 National Assembly. With registration closing, less candidates have signed up compared to the prior two polls.

  • Seventy-Five Years after the Nakba: What Does the Future Hold?

    As Israel celebrates the 75th anniversary of its founding in 1948, the Palestinians commemorate the same number of years since the Nakba, the catastrophe, that caused the displacement and expulsion of hundreds of thousands of people who fled Palestine or were forcibly displaced to neighboring countries. Today, Palestinians living both inside historic Palestine and scattered across the region and the world number more than 14 million.

  • Why Are Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman So Popular in the Middle East?

    According to the well-respected Arab Barometer, in Jordan, Saudi Arabia ranks second only to Turkey in the public’s approval. Nearly half of Tunisians view Saudi Arabia—along with France and Turkey—favorably. Iraqis favor Saudi Arabia more than any country except China, and Mohammed bin Salman is their favorite leader only after the United Arab Emirates’ president, Mohammed bin Zayed.

  • Why Are Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman So Popular in the Middle East?

    Overall, it seems that as Saudi Arabia pursues a foreign policy independent of Washington, people in the region see the country as an engine of prosperity and a regional stabilizer. It is almost the exact mirror image of how the kingdom is perceived in the West. It would behoove U.S. officials and policymakers to take the polls and the reasons—however anecdotal they may be—for the kingdom’s popularity seriously.