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  • Jihadists in Syria
    Pro-al Qaeda Saudi ideologue criticizes jihadist leaders in Syria, calls for unity

    The Saudi sheikh, who relocated to Syria in 2013, is no fan of Baghdadi or the Islamic State, which he has criticized for following the "wrong" jihadist program. Muhaysini has been closely allied with the leaders of the Islamic State's jihadist opponents in Syria, including the Al Nusrah Front, which is al Qaeda's official branch in the country. But this hasn't stopped Muhaysini from publicly criticizing those same leaders for failing to prevent the "youth" from falling under the Islamic State's sway.

  • Arabs in Israel
    Israel considers first ever “Arab city”

    Except for some random Bedouin villages in the Negev region, Israel has not built any city or village for the Arab population in Israel since the country's creation in 1948. There are around 1.6 million Arabs in Israel, accounting for around 20 percent of the country's population.

  • Extremism
    Education plays key role in fight against extremism

    An overhaul of the educational system has become necessary amid reports that some deviant ideology is being taught in public schools, where books with objectionable content have been prescribed. This syllabus should also meet the needs of the Saudi markets in terms of providing decent jobs to young Saudis.

  • Healthcare
    Rise in MERS cases prompts Saudi warning to residents

    Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry on Monday urged residents of the world's top oil exporter to renew precautions against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) after a rise in new cases of the disease since early September.

  • Christians in Iraq
    Christians of Mosul Find Haven in Jordan

    Their flight is part of a larger exodus of Christians leaving those Arab lands where religious intolerance is on the rise, a trend that has caused concern among Christians outside the region — including the pope.

  • Saudi Tourism
    Average Saudi tourist spends $11,450 on foreign holidays

    A report that compared spending habits of citizens of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries — Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar — on foreign tourism showed that Bahrainis topped the list with an average Bahraini tourist spending SR45,000 on foreign holidays. The Saudis came in a close second at SR43,000, followed by Emiratis (SR39,000), Kuwaitis (SR35,000), Omanis (SR34,000) and Qataris (SR25,000). Sixty-one percent of Saudis tourists said they prefer to travel with their families, while 37 percent said they prefer to travel alone and the remaining 2 percent preferred large groups. The average Saudi tourist spends SR21,000 on domestic holidays.

  • Petrochemicals
    Saudi’s SABIC, Shell shelve petchem plant expansion in Jubail

    Saudi Basic Industries Corp and Royal Dutch Shell have shelved plans to expand an existing petrochemical joint venture in Saudi Arabia as the results of feasibility studies were not encouraging.

  • Syrian Opposition Forces
    Syrians to be trained to defend territory, not take ground from jihadists, officials say

    Although moderate Syrian fighters are deemed essential to defeating the Islamic State under the Obama administration’s strategy, officials do not believe the newly assembled units will be capable of capturing key towns from militants without the help of forward-deployed U.S. combat teams, which President Obama has so far ruled out. The Syrian rebel force will be tasked instead with trying to prevent the Islamic State from extending its reach beyond the large stretches of territory it already controls.

  • ISIS Media
    The Islamic State’s media warfare

    “The Islamic State believes that media warfare is equal in importance to military warfare,” Marwan Shehade, a Jordanian expert on Islamic movements, told Al-Monitor. “The media is essential when it comes to any of IS' activities; besides, they have been working on boosting their talents, especially with all the financial and human resources they acquired from around the Arab and Muslim world,” he said. According to Shehade, IS had the chance to equip itself with cutting-edge technology. “Analyzing the latest videos broadcast by the group shows that they have cutting-edge tools and professional operators. I have to say that they are generous when it comes to their media machine, and they pay good money to professionals.”

  • 1970s Saudi Arabia
    The Burgundy Bonneville

    In the first few years after the 1973 oil boom, hundreds of European and American technocrats, construction superintendents, management experts and outright speculators had come and gone. An odd consequence of this phenomenon was that many of them left their dogs behind. I went to the Riyadh Zoo in 1974, and one of the enclosures displayed a pair of Great Danes, given to the zoo by some departing Scandinavian dignitary. So, I’m more than willing to believe the legend of the Dog Gang known to all in the expatriate community.