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• Dollar Watch: Middle East Gulf Exporters Create Their Own “Petro-Currency”

  
  InsightAnalytical -- Watching Our World — Authority: 111
  ~~By InsightAnalytical-GRL Oops.  Looks like some more movement in the “let’s-dump-the-dollar” game. Seems like the oil-producing states of the Middle East have made some moves. According to the Telegraph (U.K.): Gulf petro-powers to launch currency in latest threat to dollar hegemony “The Gulf ...
  5 days ago

• Saudi builds war refugee homes

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 545
  King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has ordered the construction of 10,000 new housing units for nationals who fled a border conflict in the south-west of the kingdom. According to the SPA news agency on Thursday, the announcement came as the king visited front-line troops in the southern province of Jizan, where ...
  2 weeks ago

• Al Qaeda on Arabian Peninsula’s mufti t…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 494
  Al Qaeda on Arabian Peninsula’s mufti tees off on new King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. (More on the opening of the university here ) In early November, [Ibrahim Suleiman al] Rubaish questioned Saudi King Abdullah’s decision to allow men and women to jointly attend the new King Abdullah ...
  2 weeks ago

• Royal Reaction

  
  Saudi Jeans — Authority: 450
  While the sky keeps raining dogs on Jeddah, we finally have an official reaction to the disaster. On Monday, King Abdullah ordered the setting up of a high-level committee that will study the extent of the damage due to the calamity. It will also study the causes of the crisis and recommend ways to make ensure that it ...
  3 weeks ago

• Soggy KAUST

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 476
  I find it interesting how this Arab News piece, highlighting the flooding problems at KAUST, reference only foreign bloggers talking about their experiences. I guess there were no Saudi bloggers at the university writing it up! In any event, construction of the university student housing seems to have been ‘less ...
  3 weeks ago

• King Orders Investigation into Jeddah Floods

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 476
  It is unfortunately the case in Saudi Arabia that those responsible for serious problems frequently escape culpability because of their connections, wasta . Usually it’s family connection, often connections through marriage, but sometimes through tribal origins, business relations, or simple friendship. The lack of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Insights into moving tourism forward in Jordan

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 556
  HE Senator Akel Biltaji is Special Advisor to His Majesty King Abdullah II of Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. read more
  3 weeks ago

• Obamas "Christian" grandmother in Mecca for Hajj...

  
  Jewish Internet Defense Force — Authority: 541
   Obama with his grandmother (credit:  Al Arabiya)  In March, 2008, AP reported: "In the world of today, children have different religions from their parents," she said. She, too, is a Christian. Today, we read in AKI : The grandmother of US president Barack Obama has arrived in Saudi Arabia for the Hajj or ...
  3 weeks ago

• ‘Islam Has No Justification For Terrorism’, Said Saudi Arabian Envoy Faisal Hassan Trad

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 545
  The "anti-Islam" remarks by former law minister Ram Jethmalani who linked Wahhabis, a conservative Muslim sect, with terrorism, is a closed chapter for him, but Saudi envoy to India Faisal Hassan Trad says Muslims have a long way to go and work hard to rid their faith of the Islamic terror stigma. "Despite ...
  4 weeks ago

• Inside Saudi Succession: Succession and the U.S.-Saudi Relationship, Arab Peace Initiative Still On The Table

  
  51 Reasons To Say No To Global Governance — Authority: 112
  Simon Henderson November 23rd 2009 From The Washington Institute Given Saudi Arabias strategic position and its leadership roles in both Islam and international energy markets, the close relationship between Riyadh and Washington is crucial to a range of U.S. policy concerns: Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Saudi King: ‘Confront Deviant Ideology’

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 476
  Saudi King Abdullah is perfectly clear when he warns of the danger of extremist Islam. I might argue that ‘devious politicized doctrine’ didn’t ’sneak in’, but was allowed in through inattention and assuming that those who wear the cloak of religion are worthy of respect purely for their costumes. There are ...
  4 weeks ago

• Guantanamos Evil Twin, Facing Divorce with Pakistan, King Abdullah To The Rescue

  
  Notes From a Grumpy Old Man — Authority: 127
  William Greider Kathleen Parker Heather Sharp "Members of Congress who bailed out the bankers with public money are quite terrified of voter retribution in the next election."   - William Greider "And were supposed to defend/feel sorry for/protect Sarah from . . . what? Wild success, popularity and ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Hidden ‘Arrogance’ Behind Obama’s Royal Bow: Global Geographic Times, China

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 679
  What is the significance of President Obama’s habit of bowing to foreign royalty? Continuing with our coverage of China’s reaction to president Obama’s Asia tour, Diguo Zhunjiang for China’s state-controlled Global Geographic Times asserts that while this results in a great loss of face for the United ...
  4 weeks ago

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