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Opinion: What is Happening in Saudi Arabia?

by Hussein Shobokshi | Mar 15, 2016 | Opinion

What is happening in Saudi Arabia? This is a question that is repeated by many observers of Saudi affairs around the world due to the new and different developments there that are atypical of Saudi policy. For decades, Saudi Arabia has been known to manage crises...

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Opinion: The New Saudi Budget

by Hussein Shobokshi | Dec 30, 2015 | Opinion

The most important event these days in Saudi Arabia, the most important country economically in the Middle East, is the announcement of the general budget for the new financial year. Saudis receive news of the new budget whilst knowing that the economic situation of...

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Members of the Shura Council attending the inauguration ceremony headed by King Abdullah at his palace in Riyadh in a February 19, 2013 handout image from the Saudi Press Agency. (AFP PHOTO/HO/SPA)

Opinion: The Saudi Shura Council should give a better image of the Kingdom

by Hussein Shobokshi | Jun 27, 2015 | Opinion

Amid the turmoil in the region and the growing sectarian Sunni–Shi’ite clashes whose signs are becoming evident in several countries, as well as tensions among tribes, it seems pretty obvious that citizenship, in its broad sense, should act as a lifeline in the face...

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US President Barack Obama speaks during the State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI)

Opinion: Obama’s Legacy and the Future of the White House

by Hussein Shobokshi | May 12, 2015 | Opinion

After a long flight, I always rush to purchase a newspaper or two to check out what has been happening in my absence, and to take a look at the more local news at my destination. This is precisely what I did on my arrival in New York a few days ago. The US newspapers...

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Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is seen during the filming of an interview with the BBC, in Damascus February 9, 2015. Assad said third parties including Iraq were conveying information to Damascus about a U.S.-led campaign of air strikes against the Islamic State militant group in Syria. In an interview with the BBC broadcast on Tuesday […]

Opinion: Assad is no better than Saddam

by Hussein Shobokshi | Feb 12, 2015 | Opinion

The Syrian people are being oppressed, humiliated and killed by a criminal and tyrannical regime. This is the only view that any rational, objective and just person can have of the Syrian revolution, and this is the right view. Syria is being ruled by a criminal gang...