27 results for Jeddah

19 May 2023

The Arab League summit begins in Jeddah, with Syria back at the table for the first time in 12 years and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky attending in person. Plus: Lebanon’s central bank chief becomes a fugitive and, in What…

7 August 2023

We discuss the events from the Ukraine peace summit in Jeddah and find out about Niger’s emboldened Islamic insurgents following the country’s coup. Also in the programme: we round up the latest fashion news and flick…

4 December 2021

​As the inaugural Saudi Arabia Grand Prix kicks off in Jeddah, allegations of sportswashing have resurfaced relating to the country’s poor human rights record. What is sportswashing? What does it look like? And does it…

31 January 2017

There is no shortage of art weeks out there; occasions where a city’s galleries and museums pitch in with stellar shows and special happenings to draw the spotlight to their scene. But Jeddah’s art week “21,39”, organised…

12 January 2016

Saudi Arabia’s economy is running a $100bn (€92bn) deficit and the country is thrashing out options for getting its House back in order, including the selling of shares in the state’s oil company. But an untouched atoll…