From couple of days ago , on the 23rd of September 2009 King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia inaugurated KAUST and strangely all the media focused on the university and the fact it will be the first mixed University in the Kingdom ignoring a very important guest in its inauguration.
The Syrian-Saudi relations were moving from bad to worse in the last couple of years where Syria joined the Iranian camp in the region and Saudi Arabia along with Egypt formed a pro-Western alliance.
For sure the new page between Washington and Damascus paved the way in front of this Saudi invitation , still it was a very big move concerning the role Saudi Arabia plays in Lebanon.
I expect that Mubarak will follow the King and invite Al-Assad on something very soon especially now officially the Egyptian state is angry for the loss of Farouk Hosni because of that devilish American-Jewish-Zionist-European plot against him !!
Btw KAUST has nothing at all to do with KSA's rusty traditions, it is another "kingdom" inside the kingdom! =)
ReplyDeleteI'm really amazed by it, it also ranks number one in MENA!
You can't imagine the investments poured in it
ReplyDeleteThe university I doubt will change socially Saudi Arabia but it will open a door for sure