Inside Saudi Arabia’s Road to 2034 eyesonsaudi-arabia Amsterdam, August 29, 2026 – On a December evening in 2024, FIFA made it official: the 2034 World Cup would belong to Saudi Arabia. There was no drama in the vote — the Kingdom was the only bidder — but the decade of work that followed the announcement…
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Women, Religion, and the Limits of Change Under Vision 2030 eyesonsaudi-arabia Amsterdam, August 23, 2026 – Ten years ago, a Saudi woman could not drive to work, open a bank account without a male relative’s signature, or watch a film in a public cinema — because there were no public cinemas. Today she can do…
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Inside Saudi Arabia’s Bet on a Post-Oil Future eyesonsaudi-arabia Amsterdam, August 23, 2026 – For nearly a century, Saudi Arabia’s story has been written in oil. It built the world’s largest exporter of crude, funded a welfare state, and gave a handful of royal decision-makers outsized influence over global energy markets. But in April 2016,…
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Inside Saudi Arabia’s Race to Build a Renewable Power System eyesonsaudi-arabia Amsterdam, August 23, 2026 – There is something almost poetic about the idea of the world’s largest oil exporter becoming a renewable energy powerhouse. Saudi Arabia has more sunlight hitting its soil than almost any country on Earth, and for decades that sunlight did…
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