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...The hire is the latest attempt by Azura’s 41-year-old founder Ali Jamal to disrupt the business of private wealth management, which is dominated by heavyweight banks such as UBS and JPMorgan Chase....
...This article was amended after publication to correct the identification of Ali Shamkhani of Iran in a picture caption...
...His successor Joe Biden’s decision to shun Prince Mohammed and condemn abuses in the kingdom, particularly the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents, then pushed relations with Riyadh to new lows...
...“This has nothing to with the king’s health,” said Ali Shihabi....
...“What Saudi Arabia promised was to do its best to stop oil from going to $200 and it did that by increasing production in the summer,” said Ali Shihabi, a Saudi commentator close to the royal court....
...International pressure could still make a difference: the lives of juveniles Ali al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoun and Abdullah al-Zaher were spared after interventions by the UK government....
...Whatever the view in the White House, Biden ended up delivering a “huge win” for Prince Mohammed, said Ali Shihabi, a Saudi commentator familiar with the royal court’s thinking....
...Ali Shihabi, a Saudi analyst close to the royal court, said the Saudi leadership had for months been “open to put this issue to bed”....
...Ali Shihabi, a Saudi commentator familiar with the leadership’s thinking, said Saudi Arabia was interested in a good relationship with America “but it wants to be treated with respect”....
...In contrast, Putin was one of the few world leaders to embrace Prince Mohammed after the royal was widely blamed for the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents....
...It would be the first between the two leaders since Saudi agents murdered Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul three years ago....
...“The political parties have just focused on their squabbles and let go of the interests of the people, who are now really tired,” said Jamal, a local council official in Tadamon....
...This hits Dubai, a global trans-shipment hub, and bustling UAE free zones such as Jebel Ali, which annually turns over roughly the total amount of intra-GCC goods trade....
...Smart reads Closed for business The Saudi banker Ali Shihabi moved to the US to advocate for the kingdom among the Washington elite....
...In 2018, he likened Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to Adolf Hitler....
...Years working for technocrats such as former ministers Ali Al Naimi and Khalid Al Falih, people close to him say, is a sign of his temperament despite being a prince bestowed with immense privilege....
...Then “Yesseh’s Interlude”, a short showcase for Yesseh Furaha-Ali’s articulate tenor sax, is followed by words and music intertwining dramatically on “Mumia’s Guidance”....
...“More and more is going to be done with China for obvious reasons,” says Ali Shihabi, a Saudi analyst....
...One of the defendants in the case, Ali Alzabarah, a Saudi, was employed by Organization No 1 after he resigned from Twitter in 2015, the lawsuit said....
...Prince Mohammed has in particular been the target of bipartisan opprobrium since Saudi agents murdered Jamal Khashoggi two years ago....
...Ali Shihabi, a Saudi commentator and supporter of the crown prince, dismissed rumours of a coup attempt, adding that “what people must appreciate is that the royal family has had to go through a very delicate...
...But it was last year’s killing of critical journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents that definitively cast a pall over the prince’s reformist image....
...Federal prosecutors charged Ali al-Zabarah, a Saudi who lived in California, and Ahmad Abouammo, a US citizen, with acting as illegal foreign agents....
...Founded in 2013 by Ali Parsa, a British-Iranian entrepreneur and banker, Babylon has developed a “chatbot” that checks the symptoms of patients used by the NHS....
...Three days later, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, firmly ruled out any talks....
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