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Saudi Arabia Threatens to Block Skype and WhatsApp

Saudi Arabia, an Enemy of the Internet, is threatening to block a number of popular communication tools, such as Skype and mobile messaging service WhatsApp, unless the operating companies agree to infringe on the privacy of u...

by Global Voices

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6 Cities Designing Transport For Women

Women and men have different requirements in public space and transport. Which cities out there are acknowledging that? I love British headlines. More often than not, they scream blue murder about something which would seem qua...

by Future Cape Town

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Regional Reactions To The Iran Nuclear Deal

As Iran’s long standing sworn “nemesis”, the Israeli reaction, voiced through Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, denouncing the P5+1 Iran nuclear deal, claiming that the “agreement has made the world more dangerous�...

by Oscar Isham

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Gender Apartheid in the Saudi State: A Never Ending Saga

As a woman with a driving licence, who enjoys travelling without my father’s permission and one who chooses to bare my face in public, I have always been drawn into the never-ending saga surrounding the women of Saudi Arabia....

by Rosanna Rafel

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Driving Ban And Women’s Rights In Saudi Arabia

Two female Saudi activists were sent to the Specialised Criminal Court that deals with terrorist cases in capital city Riyadh after they were caught trying to drive into the Kingdom.

by Bauke Danielle Schram

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Saudi’s Glass Ceiling

Dictatorships throughout the Arab world were quashed under the force of the revolutionaries that fought against them. The unrest gained momentum as more countries followed in Tunisia’s wake; people projected their voices...

by Nicky Armstrong

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Oil Production And The Prisoner’s Dilemma

In 2014 the geopolitics of oil production changed dramatically. Due to the recent U.S. shale boom, Saudi Arabia – the world’s largest oil exporter – lost its position as a ‘swing producer’ in the oil industry which ha...

by David Bresnahan-McRae

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Why Assad Will Not Lose: The Unspoken Consensus On Syria

Commentary on the situation in Syria generally revolves around a handful of well worn subjects; the regime’s use of chemical weapons, how the West finds the regime abhorrent, the fact that Russia and China are supporting such...

by Michael Brown

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The Future Of Human Rights In Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabian King Abdullah’s death ends a fourteen-and-a-half year reign that saw marginal policy changes, particularly of those which relate to human rights.

by Sneha Nanavati

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Saudi Arabia Threatens to Block Skype and WhatsApp

6 Cities Designing Transport For Women

Regional Reactions To The Iran Nuclear Deal

Gender Apartheid in the Saudi State: A Never Ending Saga

Driving Ban And Women’s Rights In Saudi Arabia

Saudi’s Glass Ceiling

Oil Production And The Prisoner’s Dilemma

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The Future Of Human Rights In Saudi Arabia

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