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Episode: Neom, Pt 1: Skiing in the Desert
Description: In 2017, Saudi Arabiaโs ambitious, young leader, Mohammed bin Salman, unveiled Neom: a futuristic new city Saudi Arabia would build in the desert. Neom would be a hotspot for tourism like the French Riviera, a center of innovation like Silicon Valley, and a global melting pot like Dubai. It would help transform the Saudi economy. But over the years, that already bold plan grew even more ambitious.ย ย
In the first of two episodes about Neom, WSJโs Rory Jones and Eliot Brown explain how an effort to pivot the Saudi economy away from oil grew t...