Can Saudi Arabia reassure investors with new law?
Al-Monitor's Gulf correspondent Jennifer Gnana explains how Saudi Arabia's efforts to attract foreign direct capital, streamline financial processes and continue diversifying its economy away from oil...
22 Aug 20249min
DNC 2024 kicks off amid pro-Palestinian protests
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19 Aug 20243min
Tensions in Libya flare, oil output drops
Libya is split between an internationally recognized government in the capital, Tripoli, in the west and a rival in the east, and are in conflict with each other. Ben Fishman, a senior fellow at The W...
16 Aug 202416min
Airlines brace for uncertainty but aim to deliver on metrics, says Pegasus CEO
Guliz Ozturk, CEO of Turkey-based carrier Pegasus Airlines, told Al-Monitor that despite geopolitical uncertainty, the airline still plans to deliver on its 2024 targets and is expanding to more inter...
15 Aug 202417min
UNRWA on the situation in Gaza, in conversation with Juliette Touma
UNRWA's communications director, Juliette Touma, speaks about how the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East's (UNRWA) mission has shifted since Hamas' Oct. 7 a...
13 Aug 202421min
Market bonanza and halted flights, this week in MENA business
Al-Monitor's Jack Dutton talks about how the market plunge at the beginning of this week impacted Middle East figures and how airlines delaying and cancelling flights shows how the political chaos has...
8 Aug 20249min
How thinking in Tehran has shifted since Haniyeh's assassination, with Mohammad Reza Mousavi
Since Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran, newly inaugurated President Pezeshkian has been forced to weigh his Reformist West rapprochement strategy with a calibrated Islamic Re...
7 Aug 202418min
Diplomatic flurries as calls to leave Lebanon grow
As the danger of escalation between Israel and Iran mounted Monday, canceled flights and shortened summer holidays have left travelers waiting in long lines at Beirut's airport.See Privacy Policy at h...
5 Aug 20242min
