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The Price of Oil: Saudi Hypocrisy, Our Gullibility

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Oil, Oil Speculation, Opec Secretary General El-Badri, Opec, International Energy Agency, Saudi Oil Minister Al Naimi, Saudi King Abdullah, Business News

One is compelled to pull out that old chestnut, "There he goes again." The personage of a Saudi oil spokesman entertaining us to one of his seminal dissertations, expounding on Saudi Arabia's concerns for the well being of all mankind.

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Saudi Arabia Builds Stadium to Accommodate Women

James Dorsey | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Saudi Women, Saudi Arabia Human Rights, Saudi King Abdullah, Women's Rights Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia Football, Saudi Arabia Soccer, Saudi Arabia Women, World News

Saudi Arabia is building its first stadium especially designed to allow women who are currently barred from attending soccer matches because of the kingdom's strict public gender segregation to watch games.

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King Abdullah, Why Isn't the OPEC Cabal Responding?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Energy, Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi, World, Shale Gas, Compressed Natural Gas, US-Naval-Task-Force, Strait of Hormuz, Saudi King Abdullah, Oil, Iran, Oil Shale, Saudi Arabia, Business News

Your Highness, just in case you have not been doing Your sums consider the following: where natural gas and crude oil were traditionally priced in tandem almost step by step, with the vast new supplies of natural gas here, that relationship has now changed dramatically.

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The Transitioning Saudi Leadership

Toni Johnson | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Arab Protests, Arab Spring, Bahrain Protests, War With Iran, Saudi King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia, Oil Prices, Prince-Nayef, Saudi Arabia Human Rights, World News

Some analysts say the succession of Nayef, less than a decade younger than the reigning eighty-seven-year-old King Abdullah and much more conservative, could be the harbinger of insecurity

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Saudi Arabia At A Dangerous Crossroads?

Stephen Schwartz | Posted 11.03.2011

Read More: Saudi Arabia, Saudi Women, Islam, Religion in Saudi Arabia, Saudi King Abdullah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian Monarchy, Saudi Arabia Human Rights, Crown Prince Nayef, Saudi Arabia Crown Prince, Religion News

The future of the Saudi rulers, who represent the most prestigious institution of power in the Muslim lands, is unpredictable. The "unity" of the opposed King and new Crown Prince could turn into open conflict.

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Saudi Succession Committee Under the Spotlight as Country Mourns Crown Prince

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: King Abdullah, Crown-Prince-Sultan-Bin-Abdel-Aziz, Succession, ?Al-Yamama?, Prince-Nayef, Saudi Arabia, Saudi King Abdullah, Riyadh, World News

It was business as unusual on the first day of the week in Saudi Arabia, as millions of Saudis woke to the disturbing news of the passing of Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz, long-time Defense Minister and heir to the throne since 2005.

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Saudi King To Undergo Back Surgery

AP | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Saudi King, Saudi King Abdullah Back Surgery, Saudi King Abdullah, King Abdullah Back Surgery, Saudi Arabia, World News

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- The official Saudi news agency says the kingdom's aging ruler will undergo back surgery in the U.S. for the third time in a ye...

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Saudi Women Owe Voting Rights to Arab Spring

Sabria Jawhar | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Saudi Women, Islam, Conservatives, Shoura Council, Saudi King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia, Muslims, Saudi Elections, World News

To say that Saudi King Abdullah's decree to give women the right to vote and become Shoura Council members is a historic moment would be an understatement. The women's suffrage movement is only part of the story.

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Saudi Arabia's Biggest Challenge Doesn't Come from Abroad

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Oil, Atomic Energy, Petroleum, Middle East, Saudi King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia, World News

When it comes to Saudi Arabia, it seems that this oil-rich kingdom is defying any sense of trepidation, as more ambitious projects and construction contracts are announced.

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TIME Talks With A Saudi Woman Behind The Wheel

TIME | Aryn Baker | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Saudi Women, Women's Rights, Saudi Women's Rights, Middle East, Saudi King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Driving Ban, Saudi Arabia Human Rights, World News, World News

Maha al Qatani settles herself in the driver's seat, adjusts her headscarf, and with a quick prayer turns the key in the ignition. “I'm not nervous,...

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Saudi Women Begin Challenge To Driving Ban

AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Saudi Women, Saudi Driving Ban, Saudi King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia Human Rights, Saudi Arabia, World News

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Saudi woman defiantly drove through the nation's capital Friday while others brazenly cruised by police patrols ...

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Obama To Give Major Address On U.S. Middle East Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Middle East, President Barack Obama, Saudi King Abdullah, Obama Middle East, Elections 2012, U.S Policy in Middle East, Obama Middle East Speech, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Policy, Obama Middle East Address, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will give a major address on U.S. policy on the Middle East in the “relatively near future,” White House Pres...

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Saudi Prince's Beverly Hills Compound Downsized

AP | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: La Real Estate, Saudi Prince Benedict Canyon, Saudi Prince Los Angeles, Saudi Prince LA Real Estate, Saudi Real Estate, Saudi King Abdullah, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES -- A Saudi prince who raised the ire of his wealthy neighbors by proposing to build a mega-mansion in an exclusive Los Angeles neighborhoo...

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Saudi King Approves Billions In Handouts After Protests

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Middle-East-Protests-2011, Middle East Protests, Saudi Arabia Protests, Saudi Arabia, Saudi King Abdullah, World News

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi King Abdullah announced on Friday billions of dollars in handouts for his people and boosted his security apparatus in a re...

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Starting a Saudi Revolution Without Revolutionaries

Sabria Jawhar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Day of Rage, Social Welfare, Egypt. Tunisia, Saudi King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia, Reform, Government Corruption, Bahrain, Facebook, World News

Sometimes people are so hopeful about the prospect of more bloodshed spilled in the Middle East that they resort to stretching the truth to further their agenda.

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Saudi Royal Welfare Program REVEALED

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wikileaks Saudi Arabia, Saudi Prince, Wikileaks, Saudi King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Welfare, Saudi Family, World News

LONDON (Reuters) - When Saudi King Abdullah arrived home last week, he came bearing gifts: handouts worth $37 billion, apparently intended to placate...

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Oscar Nod Should Go to Saudi King Abdullah

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Prices, Continental Energy Plan, King Abdullah, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, Academy Awards, Saudi Arabia, Opec, Saudi King Abdullah, Oil, Hosni Mubarak, National Post, Ben Ali, World News

The script that should be paid attention to is that Saudi's King will run the oil world until Middle East tumult threatens his family's power.

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Egypt, 'Ummah Duniyah', Roars: Hear Me Muslim Arabs, We Are All Qahirene!

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Articulate, erudite Egyptians in well cut suits assure us that Islamist democracy or fundamentalist Islam could not happen in their country, but hey, that's what we thought at the birth of Jinnah's Pakistan and look where that got us.

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WikiLeaks Expose Cracks in Islamic Unity

Terry Kelhawk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Koran, Islam, Islamic Republic of Iran, Middle East, Islamic Sects, Saudi King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia, Sunni, Twelvers, Iran, Wikileaks, Shiites, World News

Interactions with Iranians and Arabs underscore the impression that America is "damned if we do, and damned if we don't" interfere in the Middle East. WikiLeaks now support this impression.

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Hezbollah and Iran: the New Masters of Lebanon?

Haggai Carmon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hezbollah, Iran, Lebanon, Hariri, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hezbollah Lebanon, Saad Hariri, Rafik Hariri, Saudi King Abdullah, World News

Hezbollah conducted a simulation of the zero hour to demonstrate its ability to maintain a security and military grip on Lebanon, thereby giving its Iranian master the coveted reins over Lebanon.

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The French Connection and Middle East Talks

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, Catherine Ashton, Jean-David Levitte, Benjamin Netanyahu, Quartet, Middle East, Saudi King Abdullah, Tony Blair, Middle East Peace Talks, Hamas, Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, World News

Absent at the Middle East stakeholders dinner hosted by Obama was France. When there is a chance of securing a new equilibrium in the Middle East, France should be a core partner.

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Trapped in the Other Gulf Oil Slick -- Saudi Women Tell Mr. President: Set Us Free!

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Manhattan, Baluchistan, Mecca, Jeddah-Saudi Arabia, Saudi King Abdullah, Makkah, President Obama, Bono, King-Abdullah-University-of-Science-and-Technology, Wajeha Al-Huwaider, Gulf Oil Spill, New York City, Darfur, Female Genital Mutilation, U2, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Empire State of Mind, North West Frontier, Ummah, Benjamin Netanyahu, Somalia, Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Muslim, Elevation, World News

It's time that Saudi Arabia antes up and empowers its women to show the world they fear not the choice of powerful women.

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Prince Abdullah Bin Meteb, Saudi Royalty, Stars In TV Commerical

Reuters | Souhail Karam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prince Abdullah Bin Meteb, Riyadh, Saudi Royalty, Saudi King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah, Saudi Prince, World News

RIYADH (Reuters) - The appearance of a young Saudi prince, a grandson of the king, in a television commercial may have raised eyebrows in his country,...

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Global Health Diplomacy and the Muslim World: How Haiti Will Heal Us

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Global Health, Muslim Americans, Kaust, Swine Flu Pandemic, Global War on Terror, Prophet Mohamad, Saudi Arabian National Guard Health Affairs, Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health, Rashad Hussain, Haiti Earthquake, Tommy Thompson, Mass Gathering, Custodian of the Two Holy Cities, Saudi Arabia, Hajj, Special Representative for Global Partnerships, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Human Services, Broader Engagement, Medicine, Dr. Scott McNabb, Obama Muslim World, Senator John Kerry, Meningitis, USS Comfort, Madinah, Physicians, 20th Century, Afghanistan, Saudi King Abdullah, Makkah, King-Abdullah-University-of-Science-and-Technology, H1N1 Influenza, Hajj Pilgrimage, Public Health, Dr. Ziad Memish, Idf, US-Islamic World Forum, Farah Pandith, Kingdom-of-Saudi-Arabia, Sars, Muslim World, Afghanistan War, Zakat, Elizabeth Bagley, Disaster Relief, King Abdul Aziz Medical Center, CDC Global Health Division, State-Department-Special-Representative-to-Muslim-Communities, Post 9/11, Global Health Diplomacy, Hillary Clinton, Doha, Haiti Aid, Obama Cairo Speech, Politics News

Collaborative work is emblematic of the increasingly important field of global health diplomacy and the Muslim world has an enormous role to play in this new conversation.

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Saudi Arabian Woman Driven to Succeed

Sally Thorner | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Saudi Women, Women's Rights, Saudi King Abdullah, Healthy Living News

It's not about abayas. It's not about education. It's not about employment. It's not even about voting... The women I talked with in Riyadh last wee...

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