If this story looks familiar, that's no surprise.
It's been written many times. Saudi Arabia tries to diversify its economy away from oil. In fact, while looking for the online version of the October 26 story, we stumbled across another story with a headline so simiilar to this one that at first we thought it was today's piece. But it wasn't. It just looked like it.
But the involvement of Aramco in the project written about today makes the story of particular interest to Barrel readers, so we are happy to bring it to your attention.
So, it's the King that is founding the university and even a king has to build it under the auspices of a corporate partner and defy his own cleric establishment in order to include women? They better have some great security...