Neom has promised to be many things. It is a $500 billion megaproject promising to be larger than its neighbour, the state of Israel. It is a megacity, a business region, a carbon-neutral vision of the future built using oil money. It will have...
Mohammed bin Salman has had an easy four years, in many respects. No matter who he wanted to be killed, where he wanted to bomb, or which countries he wanted to be sidelined, he knew his man in the White House had his back. MBS knew that offering...
Saudi territory with Israeli The Saudi embassy’s account in Washington published about “reports that the Council of Ministers in Saudi Arabia had agreed to assign a cyber-security company to co- manage the NEOM project. Despite the embassy’s...
The London-based Al-Arab newspaper, run by the UAE intelligence, exposed the lie of the “The Line” project launched by bin Salman in the Neom last Sunday, promoting it as “a mega smart city with series of Cognitive societies that are interconnected...
credibility gap Saudi Arabia has been warned that there is a “credibility gap” between its lofty promises of mass investment in projects like Neom and the economic reality it is operating in. The warning was made by business executives in the Gulf...
The French newspaper Le Monde revealed that the majority of the Saudi people reject the crown prince’s vision including Neom City project, in which bin Salman is using the state’s funds to build it amid severe economic crisis in the...
Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (or MBS) has announced that a zero-carbon city called “The Line” is to be built as part of the $500bn Neom project. The new city would cover 170km and house a million residents, said...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced that investments in the new city of Neom, is likely to reach 500 billion dollars. Following this, major investors withdrew from the project due to the bad reputation bin Salman enjoys abroad. Bin Salman started...
Neom: One of the ‘healthiest place in the world’ – for whom? A recent puff piece in Construction Weekly celebrates claims by Neom that it will be “one of the healthiest places in the world”, whenever – or if – it is completed. Neom’s executive...
Mohammed bin Salman began this year trying to reform the KSA’s regional relations and gaining new allies, thereby relinquishing the formation of more regional and international enemies; the thing he has been doing ever since he became the de facto...