Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a More »
Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity
:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz More »
Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism
:: Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ahmed Hafez, slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements at the UN General Assembly this week where he urged the UN to “handle the suspicious death of More »
Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Wednesday that the attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities are a test of international resolve in the face of destructive acts that More »
Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the recent attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities represented a “dangerous escalation not only toward the Kingdom but also the entire world.” The Crown More »
Category Archives: Columns
Binary relationship brings Trump to Saudi Arabia
By : Dr. Theodore Karasik :: Yesterday’s White House announcement that US President Donald Trump will make his first visit abroad as America’s 45th president to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is activating a new level of cooperation unseen between
New era of cooperation between Germany, Saudi Arabia
By : Gunter Mulack :: Last week’s visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Saudi Arabia, and her talks with King Salman and the crown prince as well as several ministers, illustrated new avenues of cooperation between the two nations
The confirmation of Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia
By : Abdulrahman al-Rashed :: The announcement of the White House that President Donald Trump’s first stop on his first foreign visit will be Saudi Arabia, is a message that reflects the interests and priorities of the US foreign policy
No more cries in the Islamic world
By : Harun Yahya :: Wherever we turn our attention it is almost inevitable that at some point we come face to face with some form of conflict in the Middle East. Even Turkey, which had adopted the policy of
Erdogan’s engagement with India
By : Talmiz Ahmad :: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to Delhi on April 30, just after victory in a national referendum that confers fresh powers upon a leader who is already being described as “sultan” or “caliph” in
Netanyahu is breaking the truth
By : Yossi Mekelberg :: There is an obsessiveness in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s and his political associates’ relentless campaign against human rights organizations in Israel. In their preoccupation with these organizations they are ready to compromise the country’s
The prince’s interview with the Post
By : Hussein Shobokshi :: In the world of American journalism there are the two media giants — The New York Times and The Washington Post — which cannot be ignored. The former is a heavyweight known for its various
Preemptive hate and the Arab-American relationship
By : Dr. Amal Mudallali :: Upon reviewing the results of the Arab News/YouGov poll “The Arab Image in the US” in which 2,057 US citizens were surveyed, I recalled something that happened to me when I was a student
We need to start telling our own stories
By : Muddassar Ahmed :: The Arab News/YouGov poll on US attitudes toward the Arab world confirms a suspicion that I have harbored for a very long time: When it comes to issues pertaining to Islam and the Middle East,
All former US presidents failed with Iran
By : Dr. Majid Rafizadeh :: We have heard it for almost four decades. Everyone thought it would work. Six US presidents tried it and failed repeatedly. What is it? Addressing Iran by engaging with or appeasing it one way
The moral imperative to support Macron
By : Guy Verhofstadt :: As the two names on the French presidential election’s second-round ballot make clear, a political paradigm shift is underway in Europe. Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen represent alternative worldviews that depart from, and transcend,
Electing Kingdom to UN commission good for Saudi women
By : Maha Akeel :: Western human rights groups have harshly criticized the election of Saudi Arabia to the UN Commission on the Status of Women. They point to the male guardian system that controls women’s lives, gender segregation in
A deep and dangerous knowledge gap
By : Ray Hanania :: Americans are the most educated people in the world but the least educated about the world. The American education gap widens when it comes to topics of the Middle East, an area they should be
Religion and people’s exhaustion
By : Turki Aldakhil :: What was significant during the seminar, organized by Riyadh newspaper two days ago, was the statements made by officials at the Ministry of Islamic Affairs. The officials included Dr. Tawfiq al-Sudairi, Sheikh Saad al-Yahya, Sheikh
Gap in understanding means that fake news thrives
By : Faisal J. Abbas :: Is it a surprise that there is a lack of knowledge about the Arab world in the US? Perhaps not, but just how pronounced this awareness gap is — as revealed by a recent
100 days of President Trump: Flip flops or pragmatic realism?
By : Dr. Mohamed A. Ramady :: Just like pundits were split on President Trump’s election success and the reasons behind it, we are now again witnessing many acres of print in assessing the presidential first 100 days. They are
President Abbas goes to Washington
By : Osama Al-Sharif :: For Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, arriving in Washington this week will almost certainly summon a somber sense of deja vu. Donald Trump will be the third US president that the 82-year-old Palestinian leader has met
Polarized media a challenge to US perceptions of Arab world
By : Stephan Shakespeare :: We are living at a time of rising global tensions, with fears of new wars and even nuclear conflict becoming more real than at any moment since the 1970s. America appears more isolationist since the
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