On top of my list of what to discuss was, not surprisingly, his approach to King Fahd.
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Pressed on whether some of his holdings really belong to Uncle Fahd or other wealthy investors, Alwaleed says no.
In Saudi Arabia, where less than 10% of the private-sector workforce is Saudi, King Fahd's call has been largely ignored.
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Fahd opened up the race to more than 200 competitors and he ensured that no crown prince would ever feel secure.
Faculty of information and computer science, King Fahd University also held a workshop for faculty on Open Access and open source.
He won both the Irish St Leger (Ibn Bey) and Irish Oaks (Knight's Baroness) for top owner Prince Fahd Salman in 1990.
The Kuwaiti Information Minister, Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahd al-Sabah denounced the message as an attempt to create rift between Kuwait's people and its leaders.
Mr. Amro's wife and six children were kidnapped by members of Syria's powerful air-force intelligence, said Fahd Almasri, a Paris-based spokesperson for the council.
But now a frail King Fahd has handed over day-to-day control to Crown Prince Abdullah, who has never been close to Sultan or Bandar.
After the general was ushered into the area where King Fahd sat on his throne, he got down on his knee to show respect.
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In 1996, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd handed over the running of the country to his younger brother Crown Prince Abdullah after suffering a stroke.
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, in a rare public appearance in January, called on Saudi youth to accept lower-grade jobs when and if they became available.
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When Fahd became king in 1982, he was hampered by his playboy past and felt he had to cultivate the ulema and give them more power.
Handing out pardons is an established tradition among new monarchs in Saudi Arabia, which Abdullah has ruled as regent since 1995 because of the long illness of King Fahd.
That's because the Saudi government--nominally run by King Fahd, who suffered a debilitating stroke in 1995, but actually controlled by his half-brother Prince Abdullah--still gets 70% of its revenue from oil.
The current king, Fahd, who acceded to the throne in 1982, heads a council of ministers, but illness has forced him to grant more responsibility to Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz.
Earlier this month, Gillett travelled to Saudi Arabia to meet Prince Faisal bin Fahd bin Abdullah al-Saud, who may acquire "anything from nought to 100%" of the club, according to his aides.
That's because the Saudi government--nominally run by King Fahd but actually controlled by his half-brother Prince Abdullah (the king suffered a debilitating stroke in 1995)--still gets 70% of its revenue from oil.
The new Four Seasons going up in Saudi Arabia is being funded by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of King Fahd and owner of 14 other hotels in the Middle East.
Rumours circulated in Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh, that the country's frail monarch, King Fahd , who is probably 82 years old, was close to death after being taken to hospital, apparently with pneumonia.
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) libraries are one the first Libraries in the Middle East that integrated the new technologies to create its own digital library for its student community.
Owned by Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi Defence Minister and son of the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, the Al Salamah is not a yacht in the true sense of the word.
Soon after he seized power, General Musharraf went to Saudi Arabia, Islam's holiest land, to pay obeisance to King Fahd, only to be stunned by an intercession by Prince Abdullah to ask for clemency for Mr Sharif.
They include Bahaa, Saad, Fahd, and Ayman.
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The new Four Seasons (nyse: FS - news - people ) going up in Saudi Arabia is being funded by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal , a nephew of King Fahd and owner of 14 other hotels in the Middle East.
He was actually on his way back from Saudi Arabia, where he had attended King Fahd's funeral, but he had to stop over here because it was very early in the morning that we heard reports of gunfire in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, and the fact that soldiers had taken over.
In one incident, officials in the Carter administration discovered the prince had deliberately mistranslated an important letter from the then Saudi ruler, King Fahd, to President Sadat of Egypt, to make it sound more conciliatory. (This was at a time when Sadat was being vilified in the Arab world for signing the Camp David peace accords with Israel.) Freelancing seemed to come naturally to the prince.
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