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Arab states are banking on Saudi Arabia to use its relationship with Trump and political heft in the region to act as a check on his Middle East policies amid fears that he will pursue a staunchly pro-Israel agenda.
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“You can talk about your work as your work. It’s your newsletter, or your email, or your blog. Or just your writing. But it sure as hell isn’t ‘your Substack’.”
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🚨 FT Scoop: UK PM Keir Starmer to visit Saudi Arabia and UAE next month in bid to boost investment.
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Japan really only has one rule: Don’t inconvenience others.
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Iran’s deputy FM tells FT that his country remains open to negotiations with Trump but warns that any attempt to reimpose “maximum pressure” would fail to extract concessions.
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Saudi coffee chain Kyan opens a branch.. in the Bronx, under a franchise agreement.
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🚨 FT Exclusive: Former CEO of PIF-backed developer Roshn is suing the company for more than $100 million in unpaid bonuses and other compensation.
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Here’s my latest story: Gulf states wary of return to Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” against Iran
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Two Saudi officers killed and one wounded in “lone wolf” attack at training camp for Yemeni government forces in Hadhramaut.
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“In the end, Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric about invading immigrant hordes, his macho posturing against a female opponent, and his promise to boost an inflation-battered U.S. economy simply resonated more than all the lectures about his many deficiencies as a person and a would-be President.”
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American Strongman Returns to Power As Divided Nation Ponders Future
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Cory Doctorow: “…to resist enshittification, you have to impose switching costs on yourself.”
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My story from last week’s Saudi investment conference: the PIF plans to further scale back the share of its international investment, drawing a line under a multibillion-dollar global spending spree as it refocuses on the domestic economy.
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Elon Musk is in early talks with Saudi Arabia and Qatar about backing xAI, could roughly double the company’s valuation to $45 billion.
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My latest story examines how Saudi reforms led to a surge in female labour force participation from 16.4% in 2015 to 35.8% this year.
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“If you are guaranteed to be competitive in every national election, even if you nominate a twice-impeached felon, why mend your ways? A major party in 21st-century America is never truly out of power.” —Janan Ganesh
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My latest: Saudi regulator to investigate media giant MBC over report calling Sinwar a “new face of terrorism” as Iraq moves to suspend the channel’s licence after protesters attacked its offices in Baghdad.
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Cory Doctorow: “You can single-handedly disenshittify your experience of virtually the entire web, just by switching to RSS…”
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Obituary of pioneering Saudi female artist Safeya Binzagr.
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Our big read on the Saudi economy: After eight years of whirlwind construction activity and unprecedented spending, the kingdom’s new watchword is prudence.
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“With a web flooded with AI generated slop and the platforms themselves encouraging it, the role of curators is gonna become more and more important. Who knows, maybe with a digital world filled with low-quality garbage we’ll find refuge in old-school printed magazines.”
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KAUST president pledges to stop any AI collaboration with China that could jeopardise the Saudi university’s access to US-made chips.
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“There is no love lost between Hizbollah and Saudi, but Lebanon is a sovereign state and this is a very dangerous precedent that the Israelis are setting. They are making it complicated for everybody,” a Saudi official said.
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Dave Winer, one of the people who inspired me to blog, celebrates 30 years of blogging today: “Every time you post something you’re proud of on a social media site, how about taking a moment and posting it to your blog too.”
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My latest: Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal resumes work on the Jeddah Tower project, which is set to surpass Dubai’s Burj Khalifa as the world’s tallest building when completed in 2028
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