RIYADH: Fifty years ago today, brothers Hisham and Mohammed Ali Hafiz, two legendary figures in Saudi Arabia’s media landscape, launched Arab News, Saudi Arabia’s first English-language daily newspaper, from a small garage in my hometown of Jeddah.

Trump, tariffs, and trust dominated the 10th Delphi Economic Forum in Greece which concluded on Friday.

International analysts would be well advised to keep a close eye on what happens in Saudi Arabia over the next few weeks, as it seems some of today’s most pressing global problems might be resolved in the Kingdom.

A reset in Saudi-Lebanese ties is expected as President Joseph Aoun arrives in Riyadh on Monday, his first international destination since his election on Jan. 9.

They say all good things come to an end, and surely the same argument applies to bad things too. At least this is what we have noticed recently in both Syria and Lebanon.

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to enter the White House, pivotal moments in the past few weeks make it abundantly clear that the climate for both US and Israeli foreign policy will be very different next January.

One year after Oct. 7, it is now definite that the Middle East will never return to the way it once was.
As the voice of a changing region, we try on this day to document and analyze what these groundbreaking events mean within our special coverage marking this horrific year.