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King Abdullah’s Legacy: Championing Higher Education in Saudi Arabia

MENASource
Oct 20, 2025

Will the US achieve a ‘big, beautiful’ Iran deal or stall in homeostasis?

The Gaza cease-fire showcased how when the US president gets personally involved, the seemingly impossible can become possible.

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King Abdullah’s Legacy: Championing Higher Education in Saudi Arabia

MENASource
Oct 16, 2025

After the Gaza cease-fire, what’s next for the Houthis?

By
Osamah Al Rawhani

Will the Houthis cease their regional hostilities? The brief response is yes—but likely, only for the time being.

Maritime Security
Middle East

King Abdullah’s Legacy: Championing Higher Education in Saudi Arabia

MENASource
Oct 7, 2025

The SpaceBelt KSA-iRocket deal marks Saudi Arabia’s next leap into space

By
Manal Fatima

The SpaceBelt KSA case offers insights for other foreign aerospace and tech firms considering partnerships in the Gulf.

Security & Defense
Space

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Jan 23, 2015

King Abdullah’s Legacy: Championing Higher Education in Saudi Arabia

By Stefanie A. Hausheer

As the moment has arrived to mourn the passing of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, my own experience with Saudis leads me to believe that the king’s greatest legacy to his own people—and to Saudi-US relations—will prove to be his pioneering of higher education initiatives.

Saudi Arabia

MENASource

Jan 23, 2015

EconSource: IMF revises upward its 2015 GDP Growth Forecast for Egypt to 3.8 Percent

By EconSource

In its regional economic outlook update,  the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised its 2015 GDP growth forecast for Egypt 30 bps to 3.8 percent from the 3.5 percent announced in October. The reassessment is due to the sharp drop in oil prices reducing energy import bills for oil importers in the MENA region. According […]

MENASource

Jan 23, 2015

Yemen’s Coup in All But Name

By Danya Greenfield

Less than 48 hours had passed after the latest agreement between the Houthi rebel movement and the Yemeni government, and the ground had shifted once again.

Yemen

MENASource

Jan 22, 2015

Top News: Rebels and Yemen’s president reach deal to end standoff

By MENASource

Yemen’s President Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi expressed readiness on Wednesday to accept demands for constitutional change and power sharing with Houthi rebels. The late-night agreement left unclear who really controls the country.

MENASource

Jan 22, 2015

Top News: Egypt Court Orders Release of Mubarak’s Sons Pending Retrial

By EgyptSource

A lawyer for the sons of Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak said a court ordered their release on Thursday pending retrial in a corruption case, but judicial sources said they would not be freed until prosecutors review other legal cases against them. Their lawyer, Farid al-Deeb, however, said his defendants are expected to leave prison […]

MENASource

Jan 22, 2015

Anniversary of Egypt’s January 25 Revolution Overshadowed by War on Terror

By Khaled Dawoud

A few days ahead of the anniversary of the January 25, 2011 Revolution, all the well known, so-called “revolutionary youth groups” have yet to announce any major events marking the occasion. The Muslim Brotherhood, on the other hand, has repeated its regular, largely ignored, call to protest over the past nineteen months.

North Africa

MENASource

Jan 22, 2015

EconSource: Oil Export Losses to Reach $300 Billion in Middle East

By EconSource

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), losses from lower oil exports should sap up to $300 billion from economies in the Middle East and Central Asia this year, as countries in the region adjust to falling crude prices. An updated outlook on the region predicted that economies particularly dependent on oil exports, including Qatar, […]

MENASource

Jan 21, 2015

The Libya Conundrum

By Karim Mezran and Tarek Radwan

What is happening in Libya? And how will Egypt react? Libya today has devolved into a violent political struggle between two major blocs: the internationally recognized, Tobruk-based parliament versus Tripoli’s parliament and administration.

Libya North Africa

MENASource

Jan 21, 2015

Syria: The Policy Cul-De-Sac

By Frederic C. Hof

US policy toward Syria is stalled in a cul-de-sac. It occupies the strategic low ground between an August 2011 presidential call for Bashar al-Assad to step aside, the June 2014 eruption of the Assad-conjured Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) into Iraq from Syria, and the administration’s resolute reluctance to act in accordance with a fundamental […]

Syria

MENASource

Jan 21, 2015

Top News: Houthi leader gives list of demands in televised speech

By MENASource

Sheikh Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi spoke hours after fighters from the Houthi group battled guards at President Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi’s private home. Calling his measures “open-ended,” he laid out four demands.

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