Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Scholarship Program has a new name and a new, refreshed mandate. The refreshed scholarship program will send 70,000 Saudi students abroad to top-ranked universities and training institutes by 2030. They’ll go...
Saudi Arabia seeks to become a global supplier of hydrogen and create a home-grown industry. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia should (and already are) working together to help Saudi Arabia realize this goal and to…
The venerable Dr. Jon Alterman from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) thinktank in Washington joins The 966 to talk about a changing global order and the Middle East’s role in it. The…
The 966 welcomes onto the show Dr. Mohammed Alhajji, Director of the Behavioral Insights and Nudge Unit at Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia, and co-founder of SaudiGenome, onto the program to discuss his journey as…
Dr. Fatimah Alhamlan from King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSHRC) and founder of Rofaida, a Women’s Health Organization, joins The 966 to talk about her life’s journey that took her as a young...
Episode 36! The hosts scratch the surface on some issues affecting U.S.-Saudi relations – both now and in the past – and talk about the status of the U.S.-Saudi relationship today. First, the hosts talk...
Saudi Arabia made interesting headway in four different foreign policy areas this week. Significant developments in Saudi Arabia’s relationships with and interests in Iran, Lebanon, Turkey and Yemen. The 966 kicks off by talking about…
The U.S. Navy’s new multinational task force will deploy to the waters around Yemen and in the Red Sea to help protect Saudi Arabia and ensure the security of trading routes in the critical waterways….
A terrific conversation with author, thought leader, and emerging markets expert Afshin Molavi, Senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and founder and editor...
The hosts welcome Phillip Cornell, senior fellow, Global Energy Center at the Atlantic Council, and Principal for Energy and Sustainability at the Economist Impact, and brings over 15 years of international experience in private and…