26-29 September: Affordable Housing Development Summit Middle East, Manama
27-28 September: Unconventional Gas, London
3-5 October: Middle East Investments Summit 2010, Dubai
3-6 October: SWPF - Saudi Water & Power Forum 2010 Conference & Exhibition, Saudi Arabia
3-7 October: Funds Forum Middle East, Bahrain
4-6 October: POWER-GEN Middle East 2010, Doha, Qatar
10-12 October: The 3rd annual Saudi Arabia International Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference, Dammam
11-12 October: Unconventional Oil 2010, London
12-14 October: Offshore Middle East 2010: The 3rd Annual Offshore Middle East Conference & Exhibition, Doha
18-19 October: Maghreb/Middle East Renewable Energy Conference, Marrakech
24-27 October: MENA Mining Congress 2010, Dubai
26-28 October: Iraq Mega Projects 2010 Conference & Exhibition, Istanbul
27-28 October: Gas to Liquids 2010, London
21-23 November: Private Equity World MENA 2010, Dubai
29 November-1 December: Iraq Petroleum 2010 Conference, London
6-8 December: Smart Grids Middle East, Dubai
Briefings & Reports
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Need an expert briefing to support an investment decision?
GSN’s team of experienced analysts are often called on by governments and their agencies, financial institutions, and energy companies to comment on developments in the Gulf region. Our analysts are available for private briefings (either by telephone or in person) and can produce tailored reports and research on a range of topics and issues. For more information contact Mark Ford. Email:mark@cbi-publishing.com
Politics, succession & risk in Saudi Arabia report
Politics, succession and risk in Saudi Arabia is a GSN special report, published in January 2010. The new report analyses Saudi policy on issues including succession, domestic and regional politics, defence, energy and financial trends, and features extensively researched biographical entries on 1,200 Al-Sauds from the ruling family’s main branch, together with profiles of leading cadet branch businessmen, and a range of maps and graphics.
Read more about the report
Islamic Finance Report
Published in June 2009, this GSN report is an essential reference tool for both newcomers, and well-established bankers and practitioners. Read more
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Politics, succession and risk in Saudi Arabia
GSN’s new special report Politics, succession and risk in Saudi Arabia was launched to great acclaim at a 15 January seminar in London hosted and co-organised by Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Programme. Senior figures from the banking, insurance and risk sectors joined industry and governmental political risk analysts for a frank roundtable discussion of the issues raised by a report that was recognised by discussants – who included Exeter University Professor Gerd Nonneman, political scientist Neil Partrick, Saudi academic Mai Yamani and Chatham House’s Maha Azzam and Claire Spencer – as a significant piece of research and analysis, which “raised the bar” for those researching the Kingdom. Read more about the report
The report is available to GSN subscribers for £175.
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Issue 884 - 3 September 2010
IRAQ
Operation New Dawn: challenges facing the new US mission in Iraq
Operation Iraqi Freedom ended on 1 September after more than seven years of US ‘combat operations’ in Iraq. GSN marks the occasion by analysing the new US military mission, Operation New Dawn more
Liberating Iraq from Saddam: ‘A huge price’, but was it worth it?
The US administration has played down its engagement in Iraq – and strategic focus – while Afghanistan has risen up the agenda. more
Tricky transition from Defence to State
One of the remaining military tasks for US Forces Iraq (USF-I) is to enable the operations of the last 16 Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) that the State Department operates in Iraq. more
Defending Iraq: how the US can offset domestic, external threats
An unspoken aspect of the remaining US presence in Iraq is Washington’s option of defending Iraq against major foreign or domestic threats. more
BAHRAIN
Haq official charged
Spokesman for the Haq political rights movement Abdeljalil Al-Singace has been charged with attempting to overthrow the government. more
SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi succession speculation resurfaces as Sultan leaves the Kingdom
The rumour mills are grinding again after Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdelaziz left the Kingdom on 28 August for what the state Saudi Press Agency described as a “private holiday”. more
Issue 883 - 27 August 2010
BAHRAIN
No truce in sight for Bahrain as the government confronts dissidents ahead of elections
There is no sign of a let-up – or of an alleged plot to disrupt upcoming elections – as the authorities deploy mass arrests and pressure on the media to try to bring protests under control more
KUWAIT / SAUDI ARABIA
Gulf mourns deaths of leading old-school liberals
Two prominent Gulf figures died in August – Saudi Arabia’s labour minister, former diplomat and poet Ghazi Al-Gosaibi and Kuwaiti author and academic Ahmed Al-Baghdadi more
SAUDI ARABIA: Prince Sultan taken ill
Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdelaziz is being treated at the King Faisal Hospital in Jeddah, where he was taken after falling ill on 7 August, according to Saudi sources. more
UAE
UAE: ‘Success’ for president’s treatment
Federal president and Abu Dhabi ruler Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan has had medical treatment in Switzerland, with official news agency WAM reporting the unspecified procedure had been a “complete success”. more
REGIONAL
BlackBerry ban threat
Saudi Arabia and the UAE have threatened to ban certain encrypted features of Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM)’s BlackBerry mobile phones because they hinder efforts to counter terrorism and crime, the two countries argue. more
KUWAIT
Is it time for investors to think more positively about Kuwait?
Two decades after Saddam Hussein’s invasion and in the fifth year of Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s rule, is a more positive investment and policy implementation story starting to emerge from Kuwait? more
Issue 882 - 30 July 2010
SAUDI ARABIA
Protests and debate reflect increasing freedoms in Abdullah’s Kingdom
Political reform still looks far off – and few yet dare to discuss it openly. But almost everything else is on the agenda as Saudis push the limits of their freedom for argument and the Kingdom prepares to celebrate King Abdullah’s five years in power more
Mira attempts to demonstrate support for more radical options
A test of the more tolerant mood in Saudi Arabia will come with the government’s response to the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia (Mira)’s new campaign to show it has genuine popular support for more radical political reform. more
IRAQ
Government formation delayed in constitutional ‘Groundhog Day’
Unable to decide on a mutually acceptable candidate to be prime minister, Iraq’s main political blocs have prised open a gap in the legal timetable, stranding the country in a kind of constitutional ‘Groundhog Day’ in which the clock has effectively stopped. more
REGIONAL
Abdullah on the move in attempt to defuse tribunal tensions
The Saudi monarch started a four-nation tour on 28 July aimed at strengthening inter-Arab relations. more
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
US congressman points to RAK as ‘gateway to Iran’
US Democratic congressman Brad Sherman has told the House Committee on Foreign Affairs that the UAE remains a “transhipment and diversion hub” and does “not effectively control exports to Iran and other countries of proliferation”. more
YEMEN
Authorities free 82 protesters as Saleh makes overtures to south
The authorities have freed 82 prisoners detained during anti-government protests in the south in a step towards implementing an accord with the opposition. more
