Saudia Arabia

Can This Princess Change The Lives of Saudi Arabia's Women?

Anushay Hossain | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Saudi Women, Saudia Arabia, Muslim Women, Saudi Women Driving, Saudi Women's Rights, Princess-Amira-Al-Taweel, Women News

Using a man's wife to publicly threaten and blackmail him sounds like plot from a classic (sexist) movie. It's happening to a real-life princess in Saudi Arabia who has been standing up for women.

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Arms and the World

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Saudia Arabia, Arms, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki, Bahrain Human Rights, Arms Sales, Bashar Al-Assad, Politics News

Arms sales are not as straightforward as one might think. For one thing, Russia and the United States are both eager to maintain their respective positions as the most successful merchants of death dealing devices.

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Arab Women, Rihanna And Male-Chauvinistic Religions

Myisha Cherry | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Christians, Religion, Rihanna, Jackie Magazine, Muslims, Arab Women, Sexism, Saudia Arabia, Male Chauvinism, Women in Religion, Gender and Religion, Male-Chauvinist Religion, Corrections, Religion News

If women and their bodies are not seen as subjects that are worthy of respect and protection validated by God, then abuse and violence of women can be considered justified. The Hebrew Bible suggests that God at one time ordained them.

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Saudi Arabia Faces The End Of 'Easy Oil'

Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Aramco, Middle East, High Oil Prices, Riyadh, Oil, Oil Prices, Saudia Arabia, Petroleum, Qatar, Oil Companies, Uae, Business News

WAFRA, Kuwait -- The Arabian Peninsula has fueled the global economy with oil for five decades. How long it can continue to do so hinges on projects l...

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The Saudi Counter-Revolution

Alastair Crooke | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Libya, Tunisia, Alistaire Crooke, Egypt, Middle East, Middle East Uprisings, Saudia Arabia, Arab Awakening, World News

The first wave of the Arab awakening, which led to the euphoric overthrow of autocracy in Tunisia and Egypt and then the uprising in Libya, is giving way to the next turn of events: the emergence of the counter-revolution led by Saudi Arabia.

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Saudi Media Fall for Borowitz Report Joke on HuffPost

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Borowitz Report, Twitter, Andy Borowitz, Los Angeles Times, Muslims, Saudia Arabia, Huffington Post, Saudi Interior Ministry, Wikileaks, Barack Obama, Republicans, Comedy News

When The Borowitz Report jokingly announced earlier this week that President Obama was willing to admit he is a Muslim to please the Republicans, little did it know that it was triggering an international incident bigger than WikiLeaks.

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The Beauty We Fear Part 4: From Mark Twain to Malcom X (Slideshow)

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al-Masjid Al-Haram, East-West Relations, Islam, Malcom X, Dome of the Rock, Morrocco, World News Quiz, Mecca, Paul Bowles, Mosque of Kairouan, Marrakech, Literary History, Mosques, Naguib Mahfouz, Architecture, Travel, Khaled Hosseini, Spider's House, Christian-Islamic Relations, Orientalism, Edith Wharton, History, Shah Faisal Mosque, Arts News, Middle East, Interfaith, Saudia Arabia, Mark Twain, Kaaba, Slidepollajax, Travel News

Even when Americans began to travel to Muslim lands, from the start they displayed a more diverse response to Islam and its mosques, which over the course of a century graduated from the crude to the reverent.

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Lebanese not to be beheaded Friday for witchcraft

AP | ZEINA KARAM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ali Sibat, Saudia Arabia, Lebanon, Ali Sibat Beheading, TV Psychic, World News

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Arabic Novels In Translation Give Readers A Close Look Into Arab Lives

The New Yorker | Claudia Roth Pierpont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Yacoublian Building, Girls of Riyadh, The Thousand and One Nights, Book Publishing, Arab Novels, Arabic Novels, Arabic, Beirut, Gate of the Sun, Arabs, Cairo, Baghdad, Books, Saudia Arabia, Books News

The ways that people think and work and suffer and fall in love and make enemies and sometimes make revolutions is the stuff of novels, and Arabic nov...

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Forbidden Rituals At The Hajj

Betwa Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jannatul Baqee, Pakistan, Medina, Hussein, Iraq, Hajj, Karbala, Mosque, Shiite, Koran, Iran, Polytheism, Prophet Mohammed, Mecca, Saudia Arabia, Sunni, Turbah, Bid?Ah, Kabaa, World News

Since Shiites have no restriction on single women going for the Hajj, A Hajj first timer, Saju, is less than pleased to know that Saudi Arabia requires all women pilgrims below the age of 45 to be accompanied by a male relative.

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No Toilets or Air For "Forgotten Prisoners"

Betwa Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Syria, Uruguay, Jordan, Torture, Tunisia, Morocco, Toilets, United Nations, Corporal Punishment, United States, Special Rapporteur, Equitorial Guinea, China, Human Rights Violations, Montevideo, Iran, Amman, Alien Deportation, Russia, Israel, Falun Gong Camps, Togo, India, Saudia Arabia, Cuba, Algeria, Nigeria, Manfred Nowak, Immigration Laws, Toga, World News

Prison conditions worldwide are worse than the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture could have imagined. Jails without air, toilets and food are not rare.

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Israeli Leaders 'Seriously Considering' Saudi Plan For Overall Peace Deal

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, Saudia Arabia, Israel Saudi Arabi, Israeli-Arab Conflict, Israel Saudi Peace Plan, Politics News

JERUSALEM — Israeli leaders are seriously considering a dormant Saudi plan offering a comprehensive peace between Israel and the Arab world in e...

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