Ahmed Al OmranVerified account

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Reporter for covering Saudi Arabia · Formerly with and · Columbia J-School alum · Email: ahmed.alomran [at] ftdotcom

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Joined September 2006

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    29 Dec 2018

    📝 Starting a monthly newsletter on Saudi Arabia. First dispatch will go out in January 2019. Subscribe here:

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Saudi plan to privatise football clubs could be delayed beyond the targeted 2020

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  3. 18 hours ago
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  4. 19 hours ago

    US “exploring a variety of options” in Syria, including dispatching Arab troops to the country

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  5. 19 hours ago

    Trump says he brought oil prices down after making calls to Opec, a group he called a “monopoly”

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  6. 19 hours ago

    Saudi NCB and Riyad Bank are seeking advisers for a potential merger

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  7. 20 hours ago

    Singapore activist found guilty of hosting “illegal assembly” via Skype

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  8. 20 hours ago

    “The most powerful and interesting media model will remain raising money from members who don’t just permit but insist that the product be given away for free.”

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  9. 21 hours ago

    There’s a limit on the number of people in the world who (a) want an iPhone and (b) can afford one, and the iPhone reached that 3-4 years ago

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  10. Jan 4

    Saudi Arabia will face Qatar in the Asian Cup on January 17. Game set to be tense, and not just because it could determine the fate of their group

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  11. Jan 4

    If the iPhone isn’t yet a thing of the past, it also no longer feels like a harbinger of the future

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  12. Jan 4

    “The Secretary also will seek an update on the status of the investigation into the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi,” spokesman says

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  13. Jan 4

    Pompeo to visit Saudi Arabia as part of Middle East tour next week

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  14. Jan 4

    AFC now confirms the Qatari official has arrived in Abu Dhabi and chaired the tournament organising committee meeting

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  15. Jan 4

    The big issue for Apple and other tech companies: there is not a major trend that you can grab onto right now that will carry everyone forward

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  16. Jan 4

    Iraq PM is weighing whether to accept the resignation of his education minister after allegations surfaced online that her brother had been a senior figure in ISIS

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  17. Jan 4

    Stayed at QE2 last time I visited Dubai few months ago. It has a certain charm to it as writes here, but not sure if I would stay there again

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  18. Jan 4

    المجلس الأعلى للقضاء يلغي عقوبة «الشبهة»

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  19. Jan 4

    Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib inspires Palestinian-Americans with a dress and a hashtag

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  20. Jan 4

    “One joy of writing from a conservative point of view was that you could more openly flout the intellectual consensus, but that had some obvious costs.”

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  21. Jan 4

    Qualcomm enforces ban to halt some iPhone sales in Germany

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