Hosts Mustafa Alrawi and Kelsey Warner are joined by David Young, CEO of Oxford Analytica, a strategic consulting and advisory firm. They discuss Google rolling out its digital assistant in Arabic across the MENA region, Saudi Arabia's 1.02 trillion riyal budget for 2020 and how Oxford Analytica started 45 years ago to provide daily briefs inspired by the White House.

In this episode: 

Google's virtual assistant in arabic (0m 34s)

US vs China (5m 34s)

Saudi Arabia's 2020 budget (10m 35s)

David Young on Oxford Analytica (17m 12s)

Headlines (25m 09s)

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