Echoes Of Arab Spring In Pakistan – OpEd
By Aijaz Zaka Syed In the run-up to what is being viewed as Pakistan’s truly historic elections, an old Pakistani reader of mine from Saudi Arabia wrote in, twice, to…
OPEC’s Renewed Challenge – OpEd
By Alsir Sidahmed The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting later this month could represent a landmark in terms of how the group will prepare to handle difficulties ahead.…
Can Nawaz Sharif Steer Pakistan Out Of Crisis? – OpEd
By Gwynne Dyer The first time Nawaz Sharif became prime minister of Pakistan was almost a quarter-century ago. His second term was ended 14 years ago by a military coup…
Pakistan Elections: Imran Khan Lost The Plot – OpEd
By Nadeem M. Qureshi What happened? This is the question on the lips of the many shocked supporters of Imran Khan leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) a day after…
Saudi Arabia Keen On Fully Using WTO Deals
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Commerce and Industry Tawfiq Al-Rabiah yesterday stressed the Kingdom’s keenness to take full advantage of regional and international agreements under the framework of the World Trade…
Saudi Arabia: Hundreds Of Filipinos Camping Outside Jeddah Consulate
By Irfan Mohammed About 2,000 Filipino workers are still camped outside the Philippine Consulate here under difficult conditions as they wait for their emergency travel documents to go home or…
Saudi Arabia Says Coronavirus Not Spreading
By MD Rasooldeen The Ministry of Health said yesterday that it had stopped the spread of coronavirus from Al-Ahsa in the Eastern Province to other parts of the Kingdom. The…
Benghazi Talking Points Emerge From Bureaucratic Battles? – OpEd
By Glenn Kessler There have been many questions raised about the development of the administration’s talking points in the aftermath of the attack on Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans…
Saudi Arabia Says Zero Tolerance For Unregistered Mobile SIMs
By Saeed Al-Abyad and Hussain Al-Saqqaf Unregistered SIM cards are still being sold locally despite a ban by Saudi Arabia’s Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC), the country’s telecommunications regulatory…
Russia’s FM Lavrov Drags Middle East Into Abyss – OpEd
By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed There is a big difference between fearing for the unity of Syria and threatening to disassemble it. And this is not the first time that Russia’s…
A New Twist In Syrian Conflict – OpEd
By Osama Al Sharif If the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria was a “game-changer” in the view of US President Barack Obama, then this week’s Israeli bombardment of…
Attitudes Of World Muslims – OpEd
By Alsir Sidahmed The respected US Pew Research Center released its findings about Muslims and their aspirations around the world last month. The survey is an interesting one, given its…
If You Can’t Bring Them To Gitmo, Drone Them To Death – OpEd
By Gwynne Dyer John Bellinger is the last person in Washington you’d expect to criticize President Barack Obama for making too many drone strikes. It was he who drafted the…
Saudi Arabia Releases 166 ‘Reformed’ Militants
Saudi Arabia released yesterday 166 former Al-Qaeda members and repentant militants after they underwent a long-term state-sponsored counseling program (Munasaha) aimed at reintegrating them into society, said Gen. Mansour Al-Turki,…
Syria, Lebanon And Iraq: The Dangers Of Sectarian Conflict – OpEd
By Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg Was it a coincidence that the Syrian regime, the Iraqi prime minister and Hezbollah’s chief all went on the offensive this week simultaneously? Were their actions…
Assad Carries Out Carnage In Banias – OpEd
By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed Banias is a Syrian seaside small town. About 50,000 people of various ethnic backgrounds live in the town. There are Sunnis, Alawites and Christians. Banias grabbed…
Kerry Puts Best Foot Forward To Revive Mideast Peace Talks – OpEd
By Jo Biddle US Secretary of State John Kerry is moving cautiously and smartly toward fresh Middle East peace talks, but deep distrust between all sides means success is far…
Obama Red-Faced Over Syria ‘Red Line’ – OpEd
By Stephen Collinson The Buck Stops here,” said the famous sign on Harry S Truman’s desk, encapsulating the lonely dilemmas power presents to US presidents, one of which now confronts…
The Rise Of The African Continent – OpEd
By Alsir Sidahmed Something is happening in nearby Africa that the Middle East region, currently at a crossroads, needs to take note of it. A combination of improved political and…
Boston Marathon Bombings Triggered By Extremism, Not Politics – OpEd
By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed A lot has been said and written about the Boston bombings, analyzing all aspects of the incident. Racism and political hostility have also been discussed. But…
Sudden Drop In Gold Prices Hurts Investor Confidence
Investors in gold have lost confidence in the yellow metal in the wake of swift and sudden decline in price to $ 300 per ounce within three days, experts said.…
Saudi Arabia Promises To Ensure Oil Market Stability
Saudi Arabia has reiterated its commitment to the stability of the international oil market. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is committed to maintaining the stability of oil market, and striving…
Friedman, The World Is Flatter Than I Thought – OpEd
By Abdulateef Al-Mulhim Every week when my regular Saturday column is published, I start thinking of the next topic I want to write about for the next week. But last…
Al-Maliki: A Dictator In The Making – OpEd
By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed The most prominent candidate from the Iraqiya List — the opposition bloc against Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki’s list — was killed few days ago in east…
The Influence Of Art On Our Psyche – OpEd
By Saad Al-Dosari It is in the harmony of sounds and melodies, in the mixture of colors, of shapes, and brush strokes. It is in the embrace between light and…
Claims Rohingyas Using Fake Passports To Reach Saudi Arabia
By MD Rasooldeen Some of the Muslim Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh come to the Kingdom for employment with fake Bangladeshi passports, a senior Dhaka government official claimed. Information Minister Hasanul…
GCC Concerned Of Radiation After Earthquake Near Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Plant
By Ghazanfar Ali Khan The GCC has expressed deep concerns over the possible radiation leaks following an earthquake in the area and called on the International Atomic Energy Agency to…
Did Saudi Arabia Send Al-Qaeda Prisoners To Syria? – OpEd
By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed It has become increasingly difficult to believe the news. Documents can easily be forged and approval stamps no longer mean anything thanks to photoshop. Piles of…
Kerry’s Peace Mission – OpEd
By Osama Al Sharif US Secretary of State John Kerry is trying to revive the peace process, suspended for over four years; a task that will prove to both difficult…
India Braces For Returnees From Saudi Arabia
Concerned over job losses to Indians in Saudi Arabia due to Nitaqat, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi yesterday asked nine states to prepare a rehabilitation program so that those…
Saudi Arabia New Auto Hub ‘Must Target Top Producer Status’
By Rodolfo C Estimo Jr. Saudi Arabia is fast emerging as a regional hub for the automobile industry. The signs are clear. Big and well-known players like Jaguar Land Rover…
Egypt, Brotherhood And US – OpEd
By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed The Egyptian government and its Freedom and Justice Party, and various Brotherhood groups condemned a statement supposedly made by the American Embassy against restrictions on freedom,…
Pakistan: Musharraf Faces Treason Trial, Barred From Kasur Constituency
Pakistan’s election board barred yesterday former President Pervez Musharraf from contesting polls in one constituency and the Supreme Court agreed to look into a treason complaint against him, hurting his…
M.J. Akbar: A Renowned Indian Journalist And Author – OpEd
By Farouk Luqman My first meeting with the famous Indian journalist and author, M.J. Akbar, took place during a so-called colloquium — seminar — at the American University in Cairo.…
Pakistan Bogus Degrees Scandal: Former Lawmakers Fall Like Ninepins
Different Pakistani courts have put big question marks over the political careers of several former lawmakers who had deceived the system by using fake educational certificates to fulfill electoral conditions.…
Insulting Religion Or Mursi? – OpEd
By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed Bassem Youssef, the satirist, appears once a week on the CBC channel in Cairo. But it seems this one time was enough to anger Egyptian President…
Saudi Arabia: Strain Of Uncertain Future Takes Toll On Foreigners
By Fouzia Khan The Ministry of Labor’s surprise checks of shops, institutions and businesses have wreaked havoc on the lives of many expatriates. Expat workers told Arab News of the…
Sudan’s Arab Spring? – OpEd
By Alsir Sidahmed Cynics have asserted that if the Arab Spring is to be characterized by forces of political Islam taking over power and mismanaging it, then Sudan had its…
Does Arab League Matter? – OpEd
By Osama Al Sharif Most Arabs will be the first to admit that the Arab League, the 68-year-old organization, is a dysfunctional body that has manifested Arab divisions and deep…
Should Egyptian TV Satirist Run For Office? – OpEd
By Linda Heard SINCE the early 20th century, the Arab world’s most populous country has been led by a succession of authoritarian ex-military figures and an engineer rooted in the…
CITC Warns Internet Apps To Follow Saudi Arabia’s Rules
Saudi Arabia’s Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) has warned of appropriate measures if providers of Internet messenger applications such as Skype, WhatsApp and Viber fail to comply with its…
Do Muslims Really Understand Islam? – OpEd
By Abdulateef Al-Mulhim The total number of the Muslim population is around 1.6 billion or about 25 percent of the world population. Generally speaking, most of the Arab population is…
Saudi Arabia Mulls Linking Twitter To IDs
By Shaja Al-Buqami Twitter users beware. Saudi Arabia’s Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) is currently studying the possibility of linking the access to the microblogging site with the personal…
Whither GCC-US Relations? – OpEd
By Dr. Abdulaziz Sager The US-GCC relationship appears to be at a crossroads. Despite a long history of relations and a clear common and mutual interest in the stability and…
Cut Undersea Cable Disrupts Internet Access In Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan And India
By Irfan Mohammed Millions of Internet users in the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and India had their services disrupted yesterday because three scuba divers cut an undersea Internet cable…
Foreigners Fight Alongside Syrian Revolutionaries – OpEd
By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed Moaz Al-Khatib, the head of the Syrian National Coalition, refuted allegations that the Syrian opposition is allowing foreign fighters in the conflict. He further asked why…
Saudi Arabia Says Detained Spy Ring Linked To Iran
Initial investigations with the 18 people accused of espionage revealed they have a connection to Iranian intelligence, Saudi’s interior ministry said Tuesday. An interior ministry spokesperson said last week that…
National Security No Reason To Ban ‘Jews Of Egypt’ Documentary – OpEd
By Linda Heard Cinema-goers in Egypt may or may not get the chance to see the award-winning documentary “Jews of Egypt” which was easily passed by the government censor and…
The Kerfuffle Over Wearing Foreign Clothing – OpEd
By Sabria S. Jawhar Last week President Barack Obama visited Israel’s Hall of Remembrance while on his Middle East tour. During his visit he wore the Jewish kippa on his…
Saudi Arabia Threatens To Ban Skype
By Rima Al-Mukhtar WhatsApp, Viber and Skype users in Saudi Arabia face the risk of being barred from these applications if the owners of these communication platforms do not provide…
Author: Arab News
Arab News is Saudi Arabia's first English-language newspaper. It was founded in 1975 by Hisham and Mohammed Ali Hafiz.
Today, it is one of 29 publications produced by Saudi Research & Publishing Company (SRPC), a subsidiary of Saudi Research & Marketing Group (SRMG).
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