If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In the spirit of the “constructive and hot discussion” in the last two day regarding anonymity and blogging, and as a compliment to that, I’m please to share with [...]

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Following up on my post few days ago, here comes the good news: Two Saudi businesswomen swept to an unprecedented victory in elections to the board of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday in the first polls in which women stood as candidates in the conservative Muslim kingdom.

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Finally, the international workshop to protect the rights of migrant workers was held in Bahrain.
I say finally because this workshop was not allowed to take place in all Gulf countries, until General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions (GFBTU) decided to partner with the International Federation of Free Unions, the International Federation for Arab Workers [...]

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17 women contesting alongside 54 male candidates for the first time in the history of Saudi Arabia.
Women’s participation in the elections is expected to grab attention worldwide.
Women members will vote today and tomorrow and businessmen will vote on Monday and Tuesday at the chamber’s Sheikh Ismail Abu Dawood Hall.
Hmmm… separation here? What will they do [...]

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A Saudi court has sentenced a high school chemistry teacher to more than three years in prison and 750 lashes for talking to his pupils about his views on a number of current topics, such as Christianity, Judaism and the causes of terrorism. In Qassim province, north of Riyadh, the prosecution department pressed blasphemy charges [...]

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The Saudi government thinks it has a way of keeping former Guantanamo inmates from returning to terrorism by paying for their weddings. (UPI)
Is that all what the government can offer? Is that all what these inmates are looking for? And who suggest that they are terrorist? If they were terrorist, would US let them go? [...]

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Saudi Arabia: Demolishing history
by Tarek Fatah [Hat Tip: Foulla]
Something is rotten in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. But let me come back to that later. In December 1992 a mob of 1,50,000 Hindu nationalists attacked a 15th-century mosque in the Indian city of Ayodhya. Within hours, the mosque was reduced to rubble and in the [...]

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A 14-year-old Egyptian boy faces execution in Saudi Arabia after a flawed trial in which he was convicted for the murder of another child, Human Rights Watch said today.
Following a seriously flawed trial, Ahmad al-D. was sentenced to death in July for the murder of three-year old Wala� `Adil `Abd al-Badi` in Dammam in April [...]

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Searched everywhere on the Arabic media to confirm this, but could not find it except on United Press International:
Saudi Arabia said Monday a rocket fired from inside Yemeni territory exploded on the Saudi side of the border.
Daily al-Watan quoted a security source as saying an explosion, which occurred in the border province of Najran, [...]

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Malawi has canceled a $30m fertilizer deal with a Saudi Arabian company with alleged links to al-Qaeda. Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe told parliament that the United States-based Citibank had refused to deal with the unnamed Saudi Arabian fertilizer firm because “they had al-Qaeda connections.”
hmm… a US bank controls Saudi economics?! If a US bank can [...]

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A woman in Britain is asking for a paternity test to determine whether her first daughter was fathered by the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. Friends of Janan Harb say that she had demanded a DNA sample from the Saudi Royal Family to find out if her daughter, Rania Boueiz, 30, a marketing executive [...]

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The Arab Committee for the Defense of Journalists, received a large number of complaints from journalists and technicians working in Aljazeera TV station , saying that the Saudi Embassy in Doha-Qatar has been refusing to give them any kind of transit or entry visas , including entry visas for pilgrimage ; Haj and Umrra.
Despite embassy [...]

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According to the daughter of Saudi King Abdullah, it is only a matter of time before Saudi women join the Shura (consultative) council and they will also be able to drive in due course.

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2nd Conference on Planning of Education & Applied Research in the Arab Countries. Location: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Date: 13 November 2005.

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So it’s official. Saudi television presenter Rania Al-Baz whose near-death assault by her ex-husband Mohammed Al-Fallata was widely reported, has fled the country and decided not to return.

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The Saudi Religious Policeman (aka Muttawa) are asked to show their ID while going after sinful people.

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Saudi denies putting grave-cover of Prophet Mohammed into auction sale.

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Two days ago, the Internet Services Unit (ISU) at King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), the governing body of the internet in Saudi Arabia, have blocked Blogger, denying users inside the country accessing their blogs. They have also blocked photos from the popular photo hosting service Flickr. Users still can log on to [...]

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Sorry, Israel, the clash of civilizations will not happen. Despite all your efforts and the Zionist money to pit Arab against Americans, Arabs Do Not Hate Americans. Contrary to that, Arabs Care About Americans. Have you heard of the donations from Arabs to Katrina victims?
From Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, UAE, Libya, Egypt, Algeria, [...]

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The much-missed Saudi blogger behind ‘The Religious Policeman’ blog is back. Amongst other things, he had this observation on the Saudi Justice System: The 26-year-old mother of three, called the ‘Khamis Mushayt Girl’, convicted of murdering a man six years ago is scheduled to be executed next Thursday… The details are uncertain, because all Saudi [...]

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