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Work hard, play hard: Tough Saudi Arabia energy drink market could reap rewards
The biggest challenges for Western energy drink manufacturers are coping with marketing bans, and ensuring ingredients are halal, Sherif added.
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Opinion: The Growing Danger of Mission Creep against the Islamic State
The shield between 400 American trainers and IS forces is composed of Iraqi police and troops, both with an iffy track record against determined IS assaults. The fall of the nearby town of al-Baghdadi and a direct IS assault on al-Asad late last week were hardly surprising given the isolation of these somewhat weakly held locales.
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Opinion: Five myths about violent extremism
Nor does the answer lie in the realm of faith. Many volunteers for terrorist groups have little knowledge of religion. Indeed, their lack of religious knowledge makes them easy prey for recruiters who don the mantle of religious authority. The two British Muslims who bought “Islam for Dummies” before heading to Syria are more the rule than the exception.
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Opinion: A perfect storm brews in the Middle East
An initial report Sunday by Israel’s Channel 2 news that the administration had cut all communications with Israel about the Iran talks was denied by White House spokesman Alistair Baskey. Sources here said that Philip Gordon, the Middle East director for President Obama’s National Security Council, would see Israeli national security adviser Yossi Cohen and other senior officials on Monday. The discussion would include Iran policy, but U.S. officials aren’t likely to share the latest information about U.S. strategy in the talks.
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Opinion: Why did we fail in the Afghan war? Because we didn’t understand the place
What began as a punitive expedition became instead an enterprise to remodel Afghanistan into something safe to us, but entirely foreign to Afghans.
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AlJazira Capital top brokerage firm in the Kingdom for 2014
AlJazira Capital ranked first among 30 brokerage firms in the Saudi capital market in 2014, by acquiring 17.29 percent of the total number of trades in the market. The total traded value of AlJazira Capital reached SR742,425 billion in 2014, representing almost a 50 percent increase from the SR494,645 billion traded in 2013.
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Saudis on a mission
One such group is the Roads Knights, which is made up of more than 300 Saudi guys from all over Saudi Arabia. Their mission is to hit the highways and provide repair services to vehicles that break down in the middle of nowhere. This is not new. Abdul Raouf Nasher, the group’s founder, originated the idea in Riyadh last year and has since spread to many of the metropolitan areas of the Kingdom. More recently, however, the Roads Knights are serving the highway between Jeddah and Makkah, a particularly grueling drive where vehicles often break down or accidents occur due to sleepy or inattentive drivers.
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In Pictures: 10 Saudi Arabian Megaprojects
More than 80 megaprojects, each worth at least $1 billion, are under way or planned for completion by 2030 in Saudi Arabia making it the Middle East’s largest construction and build market by a huge margin. Here are The Big 5 Hub’s selection of 10 of the most exciting.
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Political Cartoonists Face Threats Worldwide
The merciless probing and caustic scrutiny of the cartoon antagonizes politicians across cultural and geographic lines. And while the savage killings of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists in Paris last month and Saturday’s shooting attack at a Copenhagen event featuring Swedish artist Lars Vilks — known for controversial cartooning — shocked the world, the struggle faced by cartoonists internationally is as old as the medium itself.
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Iran Ayatollah Khamenei Sent Obama Secret Letter: WSJ
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has responded to overtures from U.S. President Barack Obama amid nuclear talks by sending him a secret letter, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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