While questions abound on what his foreign policy choices will be on key issues, he has made some remarkable statements on the Middle East, where Qatari, Egyptian, and US negotiators have been trying ...

“I hate to say it, but it is a reflection of this privileged, middle-class attitude,” he says. “People live in their bubble. When they finish school and go into their £1.5 million ...

Summer Said is a correspondent covering energy and Saudi Arabia from The Wall Street Journal's Middle East bureau. Her stories often cover the connection between oil and the region's geopolitics.