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IMF Director: Saudi Reforms Support Slowdown of Economic Growth

by Heba El Koudsy | Jan 24, 2016 | Business

Washington- Masood Ahmed, Director of International Monetary Fund of the Middle East and Central Asia Department, has welcomed the economic reform and structuring Saudi Arabia has carried out, clarifying that it has contributed to supporting the economic situation,...

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Opinion: Belt-Tightening or a Change in Approach?

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Dec 30, 2015 | Opinion

I do not think that the pricing decisions announced by the Saudi government is a case of belt tightening as some have said. They say that these decisions are temporary and a response to the terrible decline in oil prices that aim to reimburse huge losses suffered by...

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Aerial view of Algeria’s traffic and houses is pictured through the window of an airplane. (Reuters)

Opinion: Algeria’s Historic Opportunity for Reform

by Masood Ahmed | Feb 23, 2015 | Opinion

Following the sudden collapse in oil prices over the last six months, Algeria is facing its greatest economic challenge since the 1990s, when it was torn apart by civil war. How the country responds in the coming months will be watched closely by other countries in...

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In this photo taken on Friday, May 10, 2013, pro-reform former Iranian Vice-President Mohammad Reza Aref, waves to media during his press conference, after registering his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo)

Iran: Reformist candidate Aref to establish own political party

by Ali M. Pedram | Jun 30, 2013 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Mohammad-Reza Aref, the reformist presidential candidate who withdrew from the race to consolidate the reformist–moderate front culminating in Hassan Rouhani’s victory at the polls, revealed that he is considering establishing an...

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King Abdullah II of Jordan gestures as he speaks to Asharq Al-Awsat editor-in-chief Dr. Adel Al-Toraifi. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

King Abdullah II: The View from Amman

by Adel Al Toraifi | Jun 26, 2013 | Interviews

Amman, Asharq Al-Awsat—Since taking the throne after the death of his father in 1999, Jordan’s King Abdullah II has seen the outbreak of the second Intifada in the Occupied Territories; the attacks of September 11, 2001; the invasion of Iraq; the toppling of Mubarak,...