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...Born in the Saudi province of Al-Qassim, Rumayyan graduated from a local university before going into banking....
...Saudi Arabia is forging ahead with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s flagship giga-projects, awarding billions of dollars of contracts despite Riyadh being forced to impose swingeing austerity measures...
...She was disappointed to receive a royal pardon following King Salman’s 2015 accession to the throne....
...Sheikh Ali Salman, al-Wefaq’s secretary-general, was arrested in 2014 on charges of inciting violence. His sentence was doubled to nine years on appeal last month....
...As part of a clampdown on political adversaries launched last month, the authorities have suspended the main Shia opposition party, Al Wefaq, extended a prison term for its leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, prevented...
...Indeed, as Abdulaziz al-Qassim, a commentator for Saudi Arabia’s Al Watan newspaper, wrote, the US has “stabbed the kingdom in the back” by striking last week’s nuclear deal with Iran....
...“The most important thing about the king’s decision is that he breaks the seniority rule,” says Abdelaziz al-Qassim, a political analyst in Riyadh....
...In an apparent gesture towards inflamed Shia, the king, Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, asked his son, Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa, crown prince, to “institute a nationwide dialogue with all parties in the kingdom...
...“What happened in the book fair is a show of force of the ‘other reform demands’,” says Abdelaziz al-Qassim, a lawyer and political analyst....
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