Editors Choice

Our favorites selections from the week’s most read and discussed news items.



The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Wednesday, 23 Nov, 2011
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Saudi Arabia Inflation Report

Today Riyadh-based Jadwa Investment circulated its monthly Inflation Report which noted the October year-on-year rate of inflation dipped to 5.2 percent in October from 5.3 percent in September. Jadwa said the decrease could be attributed to lower food price inflation in Saudi Arabia which reflected the global year-on-year rate dropping from 33 percent in July to 6 percent in October, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. The short term variations are not necessarily ...

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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Thursday, 17 Nov, 2011
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Taking Stock of Conditions: Prince Turki Al-Faisal

Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, updated the frame of reference for understanding the challenges, opportunities and conditions Saudi Arabia confronts in a speech hosted by the Washington, D.C. World Affairs Council yesterday. The former ambassador to the United States and chief of Saudi Arabia’s General Intelligence Directorate, built upon a tour d’horizon construct, a 360 degree assessment of the “weather” facing the...

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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Thursday, 10 Nov, 2011
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Saudi Petrochemical Industry Growth

The strength and growth of the Saudi petrochemical industry in the third quarter was the headline in the latest Jadwa Monthly Bulletin. The report noted the sector's earnings ...

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David Long
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on : Monday, 7 Nov, 2011
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An Obligation

For the duration of the Hajj and the traditional visit to al-Madinah afterward, the Saudi government must insure that the Hajjis are provided with adequate housing (mainly in t...

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Steve Clemons
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on : Wednesday, 2 Nov, 2011
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Palestine Moves In

Earlier this week, Palestine played a shrewd diplomatic hand and shook up global affairs while Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas joined Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya...

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Adel Al Toraifi
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on : Friday, 14 Oct, 2011
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The Illusion of Peaceful Revolutions

There are numerous illusions about the "Arab Spring", some of which are apparent and clear to any observer, whilst others may require years or even decades for us to uncove...

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Adel Al Toraifi
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on : Thursday, 6 Oct, 2011
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The “Arab Spring” Countries: Religious and Civil Debates

In the winter of 1992, Cairo’s International Book Fair held a famous debate entitled “Egypt between a religious and civil state”. It was attended by sheikhs of Islamic ...

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Adel Al Toraifi
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on : Wednesday, 7 Sep, 2011
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Qadhafi and the CIA

In early 1970, the US Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] asked a number of psychoanalysts to draw up a profile of Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi, who was thirty years of age at t...

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Adel Al Toraifi
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on : Thursday, 12 May, 2011
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The Immoderate Brothers

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt recently announced that it had established an independent political party-the Freedom and Justice Party-to represent the group in the next e...

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