by Ed Hogan | Aug 5, 2022 | Opinion
August is often a slow time for sports news in the U.S. The National Football League is just beginning training camp. Major League Baseball has its trade deadline, but there are still a couple of months until the playoffs. A new season for the National Basketball...
by Martin Accad | Oct 26, 2018 | Opinion
Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and moderately outspoken critic of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, became an unlikely household name for most of us this month. After choosing self-imposed exile – apparently for security reasons last year – he...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Jun 6, 2017 | Opinion
The United States has signed the biggest arms sale in its history (a staggering $100 billion) with Saudi Arabia. There is much irony here, not to mention moral revulsion. For consideration: 1. The Saudi Arabian air force (comprising predominantly American and British...
by Omar Sacirbey | Nov 2, 2011 | News
(RNS) Reports last month that Iran plotted to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S. have enflamed animosity between the two Muslim powers, and raised concerns that violence could mar this year’s hajj pilgrimage that starts on Friday (Nov. 4). More than 1.7...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 29, 2011 | Opinion
Saudi Arabia is striding toward the future – about an inch at a time. And then backward about three-quarters of that. Saudi King Abdullah announced earlier that women in his country would finally get the right to vote and run for office – but not yet. Four years from...
