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After eight days of violence in Gaza between Israel and Palestinian groups, US President Joe Biden expressed his support for the truce. However, Washington once again has blocked a UN Security Council resolution to end the violence. Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US was trying to…
Generally, the Middle East and North Africa are seen as one of the world’s least stable regions. In their annual Global Peace Index, the Institute for Economics and Peace ranks it as the most violent region. That’s not surprising, given the civil wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen, as…
Taha Sakr Saudi Arabia stressed recently that Palestinian crisis was and will remain its first case until the Palestinian people attain all their rights that include the establishment of an independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital. According to the Saudi Official News Agency (SPA), the Saudi ambassador to…
MENA The US dollar exchange rate was stable during Sunday’s transactions at Egypt’s major banks. The dollar value versus the pound has dropped by more than EGP 1.75 since the start of 2019. At the National Bank of Egypt and Banque Misr, the dollar rate has been stable, recording EGP…
With the start of this week, people of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its residents celebrated the fifth anniversary of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman’s accession to the throne as King of Saudi Arabia. During the last five years, the kingdom witnessed radical changes and unprecedented…
Historically, Saudi Arabia has been targeted by “jihadist” terrorist organizations more than most other countries. Official estimates say that between 1979 and 2017 there were more than 840 terrorist attacks targeting the kingdom. As a result, the country has accumulated a certain degree of know-how in how to combat violent…
A new report: “Trends in Middle East and North Africa Employee Engagement” by Aon, a leading professional services firm,says employee engagement in the Middle East and North Africa stands at 69 percent, four percentage points above the global average of 65 percent and a five-point increase on 2017. The GCC…
According to a recent report: “Saudi Arabia Hotel Construction Overview” by TopHotel Projects almost 60 percent of Saudi Arabia’s current construction pipeline of 143 hotels is forecast to open in 2018. Released ahead of the Hotel Show Saudi Arabia last April, the report revealed that 84 hotels comprising 27,281 rooms…
After meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington D.C. on March 19, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammad bin Salman’s two-week tour of the United States took him to New York, Boston Houston, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles meeting along the way with some of the top political and…
According to one of the most salient findings of a recent study by Siemens and the Ponemon Institute, three out of four organisations in the oil and natural gas industry in the Middle East have experienced a security compromise in the past 12 months that resulted in the loss of…
