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The Rest Of The Oil Fields In Saudi Arabia Are Pretty Disappointing
[This post by Heading Out was published at The Oil Drum.] From the viewpoint of those who suggest that there is no problem, the discussion that swirls over the future of global oil supplies often...
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Saudi Arabia Is Planning All-Female Cities So Women Can Work
Are radical feminist separatists infiltrating Saudi Arabia's ruling elite? Have the women of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia undergone a wild revolution, read Love Your Enemy? and decided to eschew all...
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French Mother In Custody Battle With Saudi Prince Mysteriously Falls To Her...
Police are still investigating what caused the death of Candice Cohen-Ahnine, 35, who fell from her Paris apartment window on Thursday night. Investigators reportedly had been leaning towards an...
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Egyptian Designer Sentenced to 500 Lashes After Crossing Saudi Princess
Human rights activists are pushing for the release of Nagla Wafa, a 39-year-old Egyptian wedding planner, designer, and mother of twin teenagers who was arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2009, the Los...
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The Real War In Syria Is Between Saudi Arabia And Iran
Saudi Arabia has gone on the offensive against Iran to protect its interests. Their involvement in Syria is the first battle in what is going to be a long bloody conflict that will know no frontiers...
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Saudi Arabia May Run Out Of Oil To Export By 2030
A report by Citigroup has warned that Saudi Arabia could run out of oil to export by 2030, raising fears that oil prices may rise significantly in coming years. A report by Citigroup has warned that...
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A SARS-like Virus Has Been Detected In The Middle East
Health experts are monitoring a SARS-like virus that has killed one individual and hospitalized another in the Middle East. The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that the 49-year-old...
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Saudi Arabia Expels Female Visitors From Nigeria Because They Don't Have Male...
Saudi Arabian officials have deported 241 Nigerian women from the annual hajj pilgrimage, and are threatening to send back hundreds of others said to be traveling without male chaperones, sparking a...
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Personal Relationships Don't Explain Our Problems With Middle Eastern Countries
Should President Obama hold Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah's hand like George W. Bush did? A reference to “personal” relationship appears five times in the headline story “In Arab Spring, Obama Finds a...
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Ikea Airbrushed Women From Its Saudi Catalogue [PHOTOS]
Ikea has apologized for airbrushing women from its Saudi Catalogue, according to the AP. The scandal was broken by Sweden's Metro earlier today. We compared the Saudi catalogue to the US catalogue,...
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A Rare Occurrence In The Saudi Currency Market Tells You That Trouble Is...
An important shift is developing in Saudi Arabian currency derivatives markets as Iran becomes engulfed in populist protests amid hyperinflationary pressures and armed conflict breaks out between...
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Saudi Arabia Is Using Your Gas Dollars To Fund Solar Energy
Renewable energy, especially solar, is making inroads into the U.S. power grid, but it's a very slow process. And especially in the wake of the Solyndra collapse, it's one fraught with political...
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This Horse Is Worth More Than $160 Million
As Frankel faces his final race, Brian Viner talks to his trainer, Sir Henry Cecil, and others who know the world's greatest racehorse best. Frankel. It is not a name that rolls off the tongue, like...
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An Anonymous Twitter Account May Be Starting A Quiet Revolution In Saudi Arabia
Mujtahidd, an anonymous Twitter user from Saudi Arabia, has been called the "gutter of the press." A Saudi prince called him a "slanderer" and a "hired tool." Some say the whistle-blower, who is now a...
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We Talk To The Mysterious Person Behind Saudi Arabia's Most Infamous...
Saudi Arabia's most famous dissident is quietly starting a revolution in the Twittersphere.No one knows who runs the @mujtahiddTwitter handle (roughly translated, mujtahid means 'studious'). But it has...
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By One Measure, America Has Already Surpassed Saudi Arabia As The World's Top...
America may already be a bigger player in oil than Saudi Arabia, argues one analyst.According to Brain Wang at NextBigFuture (via Platts), the U.S. is producing more fossil fuel than Saudi Arabia,...
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Minister's Gaffe Cuts Right To The Heart Of Saudi Arabia's Labor Crisis
EventIn the wake of growing disquiet over the government's increasingly punitive attempts to force companies to hire Saudis, the labour minister, Adel Fakieh, has admitted that 86% of the jobs...
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Here Are The Craziest Details About The Tricked-Out A380 A Saudi Prince Is...
Earlier this year, Dealbook revealed that billionaire Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud (of dwarf-tossing fame) was spending some $500 million on a fully customized A380 from Airbus, the most...
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Police Arrested 41 People In Saudi Arabia For 'Plotting To Celebrate Christmas'
The next time you complain about having to get together with your “crazy” family for Christmas, remember this story.Forty-one apparent Christians and two Saudi Arabian and Egyptian Muslims were...
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US Reported To Be Fighting 'Secret War' In Yemen With Help Of Saudi Arabia
The United States is aiding local troops in a fight against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen, the Times of London reports.The British newspaper calls it "the secret war", with the...
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