Saudi Arabia

Explore our coverage of Saudi Arabia’s politics, economics, business and culture, in articles, charts, podcasts and video


Culture

Can Saudi Arabia become a premier tourist hotspot?

It has sun, sea and (lots of) sand. But people are wary of visiting the kingdom

Middle East and Africa

The deadly journey to the Gulf

Migrants from Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia risk drowning, extortion and violence

Business

How Saudi Aramco plans to win the oil endgame

The world’s biggest energy firm is the linchpin of the kingdom’s ambitions

Middle East and Africa

A death, an illness, and an uncertain Middle East

The region could be on the cusp of real change

Finance and economics

Saudi Arabia’s investment fund has been set an impossible task

It must earn eye-watering returns while speeding the shift to a post-oil economy

Business

Is Saudi Aramco cooling on crude oil?

Don’t bet on it

Middle East and Africa

Bar culture has arrived in Saudi Arabia, albeit without the booze

And the kingdom’s first liquor store has residents wondering if more will follow

Britain

Football attracts Saudi investment to England’s north-east

It can do for Newcastle what the UAE did for Manchester—for good and ill

Middle East and Africa

The Houthis have survived worse than America’s and Britain’s strikes

The Iran-backed group has been hardened by its long war with Saudi Arabia 

Business

Saudi Arabia wants to be the Saudi Arabia of minerals

The kingdom plans to be digging up plenty more than oil

Business

Saudi Arabia has an unlikely solar star

ACWA Power has green ambitions beyond its desert home

Leaders

Can India, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia be the next great economies?

Several countries are making bold—and risky—bets on growth

Middle East and Africa

Attacks on shipping threaten to upend peace talks in Yemen 

The Saudis want to end their war with the Houthis, even as America may fight them

Finance and economics

An unruly OPEC is causing problems for Russia and Saudi Arabia

The cartel is failing to drive up oil prices

Business

Riyadh Air is betting on a tourist surge to Saudi Arabia

But does the country need two national airlines?

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