The U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, James Smith, wrote in Al Arabiya today a congratulatory letter for the roughly 8,000 Saudi students who are graduating this week at the SACM Career Fair and Graduation Ceremony.
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young Saudis and their families have chosen to study in the United States. Their presence on our campuses has greatly increased mutual understanding and respect between our two countries," Smith wrote.
"Graduation is a time to celebrate achievement and look to the future. For Saudi students completing their studies this year, in the U.S., in the kingdom, or elsewhere, their future is full of opportunity. They are the entrepreneurs who will turn ideas into jobs. They are the professors and the teachers who will educate the next generation of Saudi citizens.They are the scientists and lawyers who will serve in government or the private sector fulfilling the needs of their fellow citizens. This is their time to forge ahead and make their most ambitious dreams a reality."
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The first woman from Saudi Arabia to scale Mount Everest said she doesn't intend to inspire a movement, but would be happy to change people's opinions of Saudi women and Saudi women's opinions of themselves.
Raha Mobarak told reporters in ... Continue Reading
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Saudi Arabian labor officials have accredited 10 "mega" recruitment agencies that can recruit and deploy overseas Filipino workers to Saudi Arabia "in bulk," the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said on Tuesday. The POEA said ... Continue Reading
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Saudi Arabia faces a possible inflation risk due to buoyant growth that may warrant policy action to prevent the economy from over-heating, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.
In a regular assessment of the oil-rich kingdom's ... Continue Reading
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The 2013 SACM Career Fair and Graduation Ceremony begins this week at the Gaylord National Harbor in the Washington, D.C. area. Thousands of Saudi students will descend on the nation's capital to participate in this impressive event, which ... Continue Reading
celebrates the achievements of Saudi students on the King Abdullah Scholarship Program and matches them with real job prospects and opportunities.
SUSTG has put together 5 things to know about the SACM Career Fair and Graduation Ceremony that begins this week in Washington.
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Saudi women have broken into yet another male-dominated industry, with 13 women trained to assemble trucks for luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz.The Juffali Automotive Company in Jeddah has taken on the women to help build 5,000 trucks annually in a ... Continue Reading
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Saudi Arabia faces another summer of heavy crude burning for power generation, with little more gas available and demand for cooling rising each year in the Kingdom.Roughly half of Saudi gas supply still comes from its vast oil fields, so summer ... Continue Reading
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Saudi Arabia needs sectors that employ people, move the engine of the economy and help it achieve sustainability, says Nael Fayez, CEO of INJAZ-Saudi Arabia."Industries that drive the local economy need to be encouraged," he told Arab ... Continue Reading
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Mixed messages have been emerging over the last week regarding the controversial issue of allowing Saudi women to attend football games. The new King Abdullah Sports City stadium, which opens in 2014, is expected to include family boxes, but the ... Continue Reading
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Chastened by the experience of Afghanistan, where hundreds of Saudis fought before returning to sow terror at home, the kingdom is battling to avoid similar blowback from the conflict in Syria, analysts say.In recent months, Saudi officials have ... Continue Reading
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A Saudi woman has made history by reaching the summit of the world's highest mountain.
Raha Moharrak, 25, not only became the first Saudi woman to attempt the climb but also the youngest Arab to make it to the top of Everest.
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The U.S. is seeing a spike in al Qaeda-related terror plots and threats against its embassies in Libya, Yemen and Egypt, say current and former U.S. officials citing domestic and foreign intelligence reports.
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By the mid 1980s, the greats had already moved on: Hussein El Emam and Ezzat Abou Ouf turned to acting; Omar Khayrat became a classical music legend, leaving his drums behind to take up the piano; Moody El Emam and Hesham Nour focused on ... Continue Reading
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The province of Hassakah is the Syrian oil tank. Before the revolution, its 170,000 barrels per day accounted for more than half of the country's oil production, thus representing the backbone of those oil exports covering a third of national ... Continue Reading
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Having such capacity may be good for Maersk in the longer term, but in the immediate future it may not much help the company and certainly not the shipping industry as a whole. The world’s waterways are already overloaded with ships ordered in a ... Continue Reading
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A recent tide of sectarian tensions that erupted into the worst violence seen in Iraq in five years is testing the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, whose ability to contain the crisis could hinge on a conflict raging beyond his ... Continue Reading
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As the field of candidates for Iran's presidential election takes shape, the most intriguing entry into the race is Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. His candidacy is a threat to all other candidates--and more critically, it presents a major ... Continue Reading
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I've mapped out the results above. The greener countries are more ethnically diverse and the orange countries more homogenous. There are a few trends you can see right away: countries in Europe and Northeast Asia tend to be the most homogenous, ... Continue Reading
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, calling to congratulate Pakistan's prime minister-elect this week on his victory in parliamentary elections, said he hoped the new government in Islamabad would create a "brotherly and peaceful atmosphere with ... Continue Reading
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Photographer Gerald Donovan captured those landmarks and many others in time-lapse video, compressing 28 hours of footage down to less than two minutes, he posted to Youtube on Sunday. But the most notable sight in his stunning video, filmed in ... Continue Reading
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Neither American fast food chains nor knock-offs were permitted in Libya under Moammar Gaddafi's decades of rule, but that's changed since his ouster in 2011. The influx of American-style food has followed a dramatic upsurge in pro-American ... Continue Reading
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The Arctic Resilience Report finds that rapid – even abrupt – changes are occurring on multiple fronts across the Arctic, raising the risk of crossing thresholds that would cause irreversible changes to ecosystems, environmental processes, and ... Continue Reading
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