Ahmed Al Omran
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Saudi correspondent for
@financialtimes.com
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✈️ Saudi Arabia is spending $1 trillion over 10 years to make tourism a pillar of a diversified economy away from dependence on oil revenues. My long read on how the kingdom’s tourism revolution is unfolding will run in HTSI magazine this weekend
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🕋 30,000 Iranian pilgrims travelled to Saudi Arabia on 131 flights for this year’s Hajj 🔢 That is roughly
one-third of the country’s regular quota
of 86,000 pilgrims 💵 Iranian officials attributed the shortfall to the war and restrictions caused by US sanctions on fund transfers
6 days ago
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🚨 Saudi
military spending
increases by 26% in Q1 2026 as the kingdom defends itself against Iranian attacks.
27 days ago
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AI models from Google, OpenAI and Anthropic
lost money betting on football matches
over a Premier League season.
about 2 months ago
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Simeon Kerr
about 2 months ago
Working through conflict: staff across Middle East adapt to war -
as.ft.com/r/dd892471-f...
via @FT
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Working through conflict: staff across Middle East adapt to war
[FREE TO READ] As ordinary routines are shattered, employees find new ways to pursue their jobs
https://as.ft.com/r/dd892471-f1b2-4b03-b728-d11eae3314cd
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📺 Unclear whether a final decision has been made to air the show. MBC initially announced that the first episode of the series would be released TODAY, but a label on the show’s listing now only says “coming soon”.
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about 2 months ago
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🚨 My latest:
Long-delayed Saudi TV series
about diplomats who were held hostage in Iran is being revived as ties between Riyadh and Tehran sour.
about 2 months ago
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🔀 Gulf states
consider new oil pipelines
to avoid Strait of Hormuz as the strategic value of Saudi Arabia’s 1,200km East-West pipeline became clear during this war.
2 months ago
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❌ Saudi Arabia
terminates two major construction contracts
for Trojena ski resort.
2 months ago
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🏎️ Ferrari flies
personalised supercars
to super-rich Middle East buyers as the war in Iran threatens demand and sea freight is disrupted.
2 months ago
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New by me and Andrew England:
Gulf leaders opposed a strike
, but they are now caught between wanting the conflict to end and fear that — if Trump suddenly stops — the war will leave a wounded, emboldened and more hardline Iran.
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Saudi Aramco is the world’s biggest oil producer and is responsible for about a tenth of global supply. The company’s CEO today
warned
of “catastrophic consequences” for the world economy if the US-Iran war drags on.
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Saudi Aramco warns of ‘catastrophic consequences’ if Iran war drags on
Oil producer is racing to restore 70% of normal shipments, says CEO
https://www.ft.com/content/2a83b917-62f3-4294-875c-a397fc68c652
3 months ago
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💧 Gulf states fear
threat to water infrastructure
as Iran war escalates.
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Gulf states fear threat to water infrastructure as Iran war escalates
Tit-for-tat strikes have hit critical desalination plants in Bahrain and Iran
https://www.ft.com/content/f273fa16-ff7f-4207-a9ae-abce5de93144
3 months ago
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🚨 Qatar’s energy minister warns the war could “bring down the economies of the world”, predicting that a
ll Gulf energy exporters would shut down production within weeks
and drive oil to $150 a barrel.
3 months ago
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🛢️ Gulf’s biggest oil producers are facing a
race against time
to resume exports before their storage tanks fill up.
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Gulf oil producers face race to resume exports before storage fills up
Analysts estimate Saudi Arabia has roughly two weeks before it would need to start cutting crude output
https://www.ft.com/content/aaaad78b-2980-4bb3-90f8-e8d7ab617796
3 months ago
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🔊 I was on
@financialtimes.com
News Briefing podcast this morning to talk about the first few days of the US-Iranian conflict in the Gulf
www.ft.com/content/68ea...
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Gulf states caught in the middle of US-Iran conflict
American allies including Saudi Arabia are trying to withstand the Islamic republic’s retaliatory strikes
https://www.ft.com/content/68ea0ad9-618a-4a08-9732-3e9998c4d212
3 months ago
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Israeli intelligence had information about Khamenei’s location from
hacked traffic cameras and deeply penetrated mobile phone networks
. The Americans had something even more concrete — a human source.
3 months ago
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Back from paternity leave. What’d I miss?
3 months ago
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☎️ Saudi Arabia will not allow its airspace or territory to be used for military actions against Iran, Crown Prince tells Pezeshkian in telephone call —SPA
4 months ago
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🚨 FT scoop — Neom review nears completion:
The Line to be redesigned
, region to shift focus to “industrial” sectors including AI data centres.
4 months ago
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🚨 Saudi media
steps up attacks on UAE
as Gulf rift deepens.
4 months ago
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Unpacking some old boxes and found these two issues of Newsweek’s Arabic edition from more 20 years ago on the eve of the American invasion of Iraq.
5 months ago
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🚨 Trump Organization announces
golf course and hotel in Diriyah
in first collaboration with PIF-owned company.
5 months ago
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🎢 My latest story: Saudi Arabia opens
$1 billion Six Flags theme park in Qiddiya
as the kingdom pushes ahead with megaprojects.
5 months ago
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🚨 Saudi Arabia
accuses
UAE of smuggling out Yemeni separatist leader.
5 months ago
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🚨 Saudi Arabia launches new air strikes on southern Yemen as
STC leader fails to travel to Riyadh
for talks aimed at ending the crisis.
5 months ago
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🚨 Saudi Arabia launches
air strike on Yemen’s Mukalla port
, accuses UAE of “pressuring” separatist southern group to conduct military operations on the kingdom’s borders.
5 months ago
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Saudi complaints over social security benefits lead to arrests and fines:
https://blog.alomran.me/2025/12/29/saudi-complaints-over-social-security.html
5 months ago
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Saudi complaints over social security benefits lead to arrests and fines:
https://blog.alomran.me/2025/12/29/saudi-complaints-over-social-security.html
5 months ago
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🚨 Saudi Arabia calls moves by Yemen’s STC “unjustified escalation”, urges the group to withdraw forces from seized provinces —foreign ministry statement.
5 months ago
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“While Saudi’s reinvention has left scars, in the form of budget overruns and scaled-back projects, the country has breezed through its own 2030 target and is set to
generate an estimated 57 per cent of economic output from non-oil activities
this year.”
5 months ago
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Saudi writer Ahmed Abodehman dies at age 76. He was known for his semi-autobiographical novel “La Ceinture”, first published in French by Gallimard in 2000.
6 months ago
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Saudi Arabia plans
expanding access to alcohol
with two more liquor stores in Jeddah and Dhahran catering to non-Muslim diplomats and Premium Residency holders.
6 months ago
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🚨 Saudi AI firm Humain leads
$900 million funding round
in US video startup Luma AI.
6 months ago
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🚨 US and Saudi Arabia reach deal for
rare earths facility in the kingdom
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6 months ago
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🚨 Trump says he will approve
unprecedented sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia
during the crown prince visit to the White House today. Other deals covering defence, AI and nuclear energy also on the agenda.
7 months ago
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🚨 Saudi royal court confirms that the crown prince has traveled to the US. Talks with Trump to focus on bilateral relations and issues of common concern,
statement
says.
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سياسي / الديوان الملكي: بناءً على توجيه خادم الحرمين الشريفين واستجابة للدعوة المقدمة لسمو ولي العهد من الرئيس الأمريكي فقد غادر سموه متوجهًا إلى الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية في زيارة عمل رسمية
الرياض 26 جمادى الأولى 1447 هـ الموافق 17 نوفمبر 2025 م واس صدر عن الديوان الملكي اليوم البيان التالي: "بيان من الديوان الملكي" بناءً على توجيه خادم الحرمين الشريفين الملك سلمان بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود -حفظه الله-، واستجابة للدعوة المقدمة لصاحب السمو الملكي الأمير محمد بن سلمان بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود ولي العهد رئيس مجلس الوزراء -حفظه الله- من فخامة رئيس الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية / دونالد ترمب، فقد غادر سموه -بحفظ الله ورعايته- اليوم الاثنين 26 / 5 / 1447هـ الموافق 17 / 11 / 2025م، متوجهًا إلى الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، في زيارة عمل رسمية يلتقي خلالها بفخامة رئيس الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية / دونالد ترمب، لبحث العلاقات الثنائية وسبل تعزيزها في مختلف المجالات، ومناقشة القضايا ذات الاهتمام المشترك. حفظ الله سموه في سفره وإقامته. // انتهى // 18:35 ت مـ 0172
https://www.spa.gov.sa/N2446600
7 months ago
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Trump’s family business and its Saudi partner Dar Global unveil plan for
luxury Maldives resort that uses blockchain technology
to attract investment.
7 months ago
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My latest story: Saudi
PIF cuts US equity holdings
to $19.4 billion in Q3, down from $23.8 billion in Q2 as the fund exits positions in 9 companies, including Visa and Pinterest.
7 months ago
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Saudi women sign up for
belly dancing classes
at fitness studios — an activity that many feel compelled to keep secret.
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Saudi belly dancers break taboos behind closed doors
In a fitness studio in Saudi Arabia, dozens of women sway to Arabic music as they practise belly dancing -- an activity that many feel compelled to keep secret.In Arab communities, belly dancing has played many roles.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/saudi-belly-dancers-break-taboos-022000312.html
7 months ago
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Saudi Aramco
steps up gas push
to power fleets of AI data centres, new industrial hubs and fast-growing cities.
7 months ago
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FT visual investigation: How the laws of physics and finance hampered
The Line
of Neom.
7 months ago
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🚨 Saudi king appoints Sheikh Salih al-Fawzan as the kingdom’s Grand Mufti —royal decree
7 months ago
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🚨 Saudi Arabia in talks with US for
defence pact
ahead of the crown prince’s visit to the White House next month.
8 months ago
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🚨 My latest: Western cultural institutions are
re-embracing Saudi Arabia
as their quest for fresh funding and expansion aligns with the kingdom’s ambitions to grow its art and culture sectors as part of wider economic diversification plans.
8 months ago
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🚨 “The glory days are over”: consultants in Saudi Arabia
curb expansion plans
as the kingdom reviews its priorities.
8 months ago
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8 months ago
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🚨 Saudi real estate developer to
build $1 billion Trump-branded project
in Jeddah.
8 months ago
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🚨 My latest: How the Saudi crown prince
irreversibly changed the relationship
between the state and the kingdom’s religious establishment.
8 months ago
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🚨 Saudi Arabia
freezes Riyadh rents for 5 years
as property costs soar.
8 months ago
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🇸🇦 Our latest long read: Can Vision 2030
uplift Saudi Arabia’s rural areas
?
8 months ago
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