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...the example from late 2022 of an adjunct professor of art history in Minnesota who had her contract renewal rescinded after a complaint from a student that she had shown an artwork depicting the Prophet Mohammed...
...The region’s influence extends to the senior governance level, after Emirati former rally driver Mohammed Ben Sulayem won last year’s election to replace Frenchman Jean Todt as head of the Fédération Internationale...
...Kate Allen, weekend news editor The New York Times’ Barbie piece, which (before it became clear just what a blockbuster it would be) managed to deliver both a profile of Greta Gerwig and an exploration...
...Jean-Claude Rivalland, a founding partner of Allen & Overy’s Paris office, is joining Norton Rose Fulbright’s corporate, M&A and securities practice in the French capital....
...The sovereign wealth fund’s investments are meant to reduce the Saudi economy’s reliance on oil and achieve crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Vision 2030 plan to modernise the conservative kingdom....
...“No one should believe the hype on Saudi Arabia — everyone needs to understand they’ve been cracking down hard on human rights under the crown prince’s authoritarian rule,” said Kate Allen, Amnesty International...
..., business and social circuits, from Davos to Mayfair, and from Mohammed bin Salman to Angela Merkel....
...Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends, by Anne Applebaum, Allen Lane, RRP£16.99/Doubleday, RRP$25, 224 pages Applebaum is as comfortable writing about people and their...
...Allen & Overy has appointed Nick Marchica as a partner in its US private equity group based in New York. He joins from Baker McKenzie....
...(FT) Court judges against Dubai ruler London’s High Court has ruled that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum executed a campaign “aimed at intimidating and frightening” Princess Haya, his former wife...
...Long-running merger talks between City law firm Allen & Overy and O’Melveny & Myers of the US have collapsed....
...In between, they could expect Mr Epstein to take phone calls with Larry Summers, Woody Allen and other notables from his eclectic universe....
...Nag joins the firm from Allen & Overy....
...Mohammed Kazmi, a macro strategist at UBP, said the “particularly strong demand for the five-year part of the curve” seen in Thursday’s auctions was “not necessarily surprising given that spreads are trading...
...David Allen Green says that now a Brexit deal has been agreed, there will be disappointments for Brexiters but no surprises....
...Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has been on a tour of the US, the UK and France over the past month in an effort to drum up investment for his attempts to reshape the country’s economy away...
...(Lex, Breakingviews) Anaemic recoveries A receiver tasked with recovering the billion of dollars victims lost to Allen Stanford’s $7bn Ponzi scheme has racked up $224m in fees for less than $600m in recoveries...
...Dominic Long, partner at Allen & Overy, wrote: “The reforms will effectively create a new layer of UK merger control....
...Additional reporting by Kate Allen...
...He argues that this shows that King Salman remains a strong counterbalance to Mohammed bin Salman, his headstrong young heir....
...The immediate reaction to news that Prince Mohammed had launched what was dubbed an anti-corruption purge has been negative....
...How Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, has gone about consolidating political power in his kingdom (let’s call it the, “Putting on the Ritz” strategy) and what he is doing with that power...
...(FT) Dealmaking in the kingdom Some of the world’s most influential financiers have spent the past three years courting Saudi Arabia’s dealmaker-in-chief Mohammed bin Salman....
...Martin Wolf Europe’s strategic choices on Brexit by Gideon Rachman Team Sky raced too hard to become a business by John Gapper #MeToo has shaken up a man’s world, but now the real work begins by Kate Allen...
...#MenToo: From Harvey Weinstein, to harassment at The Presidents Club, the past year has been an earthquake for gender politics, says Kate Allen....
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