Eng. Saif S. AlQahtani, President and CEO of the King Salman Energy Park (SPARK), discusses energy supply chain investments in Saudi Arabia. What are the key challenges facing the energy sector in Saudi Arabia as we approach 2021? We face a two-fold responsibility of driving domestic economic diversification by localizing goods and services, as well
Emerging evidence on the impact of COVID-19 suggests that women’s economic and productive lives will be affected disproportionately and differently from men. Before COVID-19 became a global pandemic, women were doing three times as much unpaid care and domestic work as men, according to a UN report, “The Impact of COVID-19 on Women.” The situation
History has been made at the International Publishers Association (IPA). Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi has become the first woman from the Arab world, and only the second woman ever, to be appointed IPA President since the organization was founded in 1896. The historic announcement was made at the virtual General Assembly Congress (GAC)
In a lonely patch of desert in southern Egypt, near the city of Aswan, lies a stretch of land covered in gleaming solar panels. Benban Solar Park—a major milestone for the Arab world’s most populous country as it embraces renewable energy—recently began producing power. “This is a megaproject that every single Egyptian is proud of,”