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.
Captain Yasmeen Muhammad Yusuf Al-Maimani has become the second Saudi Arabian woman to earn her commercial pilot license. 20-year-old Yasmeen Muhammad Yusuf Al-Maimani has successfully received her commercial pilot license, m...
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...
On Saturday, 26 October 2013, Saudi Arabia’s women got behind the wheel in a national day of defiance against the Kingdom’s ban on female drivers. With over 60 women joining the call to allow women drivers, the prot...
As election season heats up in the Lebanese capital, the man to fill Lebanon’s Presidential throne is still very much up in the air. No time like the present, less than fifty days from the May 25 deadline, illustrates just ho...
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and democracy are having a hard time making sense with one another. The West has found itself in a sort of existential crisis; the chaos that has erupted in MENA in the search for ...
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...
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...
Economic development, rapidly increasing populations and global warming are making the supply of fresh water one of the greatest challenges facing the states of the Arabian Gulf. The countries of the Arabian Gulf are famed for ...