Before the ouster last year of President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt sided with Sunni-led Saudi Arabia and Sunni-dominated Arabian Gulf States toward the isolation of Shiite-led Iran.
Oil suppliers and purchasers alike accepted the arrangement whereby Saudi Arabian reserves - defended by the US military -- served as the guarantor of the oil economy.
For a more recent, if similarly calamitous, manifestation of the power of chaos theory, consider how different the world would be today had not a devout, soft-spoken Saudi Arabian engineer inherited a significant fortune from his estranged father.
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One person who just has is Saudi Arabian billionaire Maan Al-Sanea.
The house sits on a lot that once held a home owned by Sheikh Mohammed al-Fassi, an in-law of the Saudi Arabian royal family.
But the pilgrims aren't heading off for '"some time by the sea" -- but into the vast Saudi Arabian desert, to the valley of Mina.
UN's secretary-general, Kofi Annan, and Saudi Arabian and Egyptian officials.
But the Saudi Arabian was brought back to the table after Al-Fahim failed to seal the investment needed to prevent the club going bust.
In mid-February, Prince made a pilgrimage to the Saudi Arabian desert to meet with Citi's largest individual shareholder, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who has said recently that Citi needed to take "draconian" measures to cut costs.
The Saudi authorities first mentioned Awfi as a member of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in December 2003.
Ms. Chaplin from BCCG recalls getting daily phone calls from the Saudi Arabian mother of one Suffolk freshman because her son's off-campus apartment lacked a bidet.
Port Talbot-born Vicari, who lives in Monaco, was once court painter to the Saudi Arabian royal family and government and is often described as one of the world's richest living artists.
She says the man matching this description is an Iraqi political refugee named Hussain al-Hussaini, an itinerant restaurant worker who entered the country in 1994 from a Saudi Arabian refugee camp and soon found his way to Oklahoma City.
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