Too many of us, unfortunately, do not appreciate or care to investigate the background and context of the complexities that have us poised to spend more American blood and treasure on another Middle East war. I challenge you to get smart.
Trump’s Saudi hosts will not let Trump’s political troubles interfere with their effort to open a new chapter with Washington.
Patrick Ryan is a regular contributor to Al Arabiya English. Today he wrote on the social business aspects of this week's Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES2016) in Silicon Valley.
Patrick Ryan is a regular contributor to Al Arabiya English. Today he wrote on the prospects for US-Saudi business relations in view of the upcoming visit of Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed.
Al Arabiya's article on the recent purchase of a $3.5 billion stake in Uber included insights from Patrick W. Ryan.
It may be a case of, “Gentlemen, we have run out of money; it’s time to start thinking,” variously attributed to Winston Churchill and physicist Ernest Rutherford, but the need to reform Saudi Arabia’s oil-dependent economy has actually been the subject of “thinking” for decades.
Paul Crompton's article in Al Arabiya today cited Patrick Ryan on the question of US-Saudi trade on the occasion of President Obama's summit meeting in Riyadh.
When President Barack Obama travels to Saudi Arabia this week there will be more on his agenda than the announced US-GCC Summit with talks about security cooperation, intensifying pressure on ISIS, addressing regional conflicts and de-escalating regional and sectarian tensions, as announced by the White House last month.
Amid a magnificent welcoming from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman arrived in Cairo for a summit accompanied by a large delegation of Saudi ministers and officials on Thursday.
At a time when conversations about energy markets were focused on crude oil production freezes, pricing and bloated global inventories, Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman grabbed the attention of oil industry watchers with news of a Saudi Aramco IPO of up to 5 percent.