February 5, 2011Turkish woman recounts difficult life in Saudi Arabia with bookThe difficulties of living as a woman in Saudi Arabia are the subject of a new book by […]
November 28, 2010Saudi women sue male guardians who stop marriageIn a bid to gain more individual freedom, a number of Saudi women have sued male guardians who […]
October 25, 2010Saudi school girls warned against wearing ‘tight clothes’Saudi Arabia has warned its school girls against wearing tight clothes on the grounds they are against school […]
August 2, 2010US Saudi relations“It is almost ludicrous that with our own secretary of State being a woman, the rights of women […]
July 15, 2010Saudi academic: Women journalists “soldiers of satan”Saudi professor of religion at the Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh has sparked the ire […]
June 28, 2010Saudi Arabia Moves to Regulate Child MarriagesWhile Saudi-Arabia’s government is believed to support curbing the practice of child marriages, King Abdullah’s regime has yet […]
June 22, 2010Saudi Arabia convicts 15 men, women for mingling at partyJudicial officials say a Saudi court has convicted four women and 11 men for mingling at a party […]
June 19, 2010Saudi Women vow to breastfeed their driversSaudi women plan to turn a controversial fatwa (religious ruling) to their advantage and launch a campaign to […]
June 14, 2010Barcelona to ban burqa in municipal buildingsBarcelona is to become the first major Spanish city to bar the use of face-covering Islamic veils in […]
June 10, 2010Saudi Convicts Man for Kissing Woman in MallA Saudi court convicted a man and sentenced him to four months in prison and 90 lashes for […]
June 1, 2010Saudi Youths in Trouble Over MTV Reality ShowSaudi Arabia’s religious police are trying to bring to court three Saudi youths for challenging the kingdom’s austere […]
May 26, 2010Saudi Princess to Religious Police: Loosen Your Grip on the Population and Fight Government CorruptionIn her column in the government daily Al-Madina, Saudi Princess Basma bint Saud attacked the Saudi religious police, […]
May 18, 2010Saudi woman beats up religious police officer who stopped her for walking with a manWhen a Saudi religious policeman questioned a young couple walking together in an amusement park he got a […]
May 17, 2010Saudi editor Jamal Khashoggi resigns from of al-WatanA leading Saudi Arabian journalist has resigned from his post as editor-in-chief of one of the country’s more […]
May 2, 2010Runaway Saudi Women and Girls on the RiseThe number of young Saudi women running away from their homes is on the rise, a local aid […]
April 22, 2010Saudi Arabia to introduce minimum marriage age after 11-year-old wins divorceSaudi Arabia could introduce a minimum age of marriage for the first time after a girl who married […]
April 11, 2010British girl of 10 kept in Saudi hell hole for 11 years by her dadA British girl kept in Saudi Arabia by her father has succeeded in reuniting with her British mother: […]
March 23, 2010Veiled Saudi poet rises to stardom after bashing clericsA Saudi housewife’s bold poems which blast “evil” extremist fatwas by Muslim clerics have earned her death threats […]
January 21, 2010Saudi girl, 13, sentenced to 90 lashes after she took a mobile phone to schoolA 13-year-old Saudi schoolgirl is to be given 90 lashes in front of her classmates after she was […]
January 20, 2010‘Illegal’ Saudi women’s gym shut: mediaHealth authorities in Jeddah have shut down an “illegal” women’s fitness centre attached to a hospital, closing one […]