Saudi Arabia

The Big Battle Over Crude Oil

Aresh Shirali

Has Opec lost control of prices at long last?

Women Voting in Saudi Arabia

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Women form 42 per cent of the country’s population and they have consistently been outperforming men on metrics such as literacy

Modi in UAE: Bridging the Gulf

Harsh V. Pant

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the UAE presages a new role for India in a geo-politically important region

The Axis of Noble

S Prasannarajan

With the Iran deal, it is the end of evil for Obama. Sadly though, the revolution is not dead in Iran yet

Yemen crisis

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The current conflict is also seen as part of a regional power struggle between Shia-ruled Iran and Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia

THE DAY OF THE UNDERDOG

Chinki Sinha

A man who once worked as an unskilled labourer in Saudi Arabia and became a voice of Dalit assertion in Punjab is now a member of the Union Council of Ministers

The trauma of three young Indian men who have been in jail in Saudi Arabia for the past seven years. Unless they pay Rs 5.6 crore, they could stay locked up all their lives. All they did, say their families, was rent a flat that happened to be the site of a scam run by its previous occupants