Arab women’s rights In late June, the first Saudi women to legally drive a car in the kingdom started their engines and took off down the road. The lifting of Saudi...
Qatar feud risks Gulf instability On the surface, the tiny Persian Gulf nation of Qatar has much in common with Saudi Arabia and the other monarchies of the Arabian peninsula....
Project Exile: Bahrain journalist escaped Arab Spring crackdown "I was in hiding in Bahrain for two years, in a small room inside a house" Few escapes are as dramatic as Ali Abdulemam’s. The celebrated liberal...
Editor pioneers gay media in Arab world “It seems every year we get ourselves into some kind of trouble.” The Arab world is one of the most difficult regions to be lesbian, gay,...
Gay rights in the Arab world One of the hardest regions of the globe to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender is the Arab world. In Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the punishment...
Gulf states struggle amid depressed oil prices New taxes and cuts to government spending spur economic pain As the Arab Spring swept across the oil-rich Persian Gulf five years ago, the region's...
Bahrain court rejects photographer’s appeal An appellate court in Bahrain upheld a 10-year sentence for an award-winning photojournalist Aug. 30. Ahmed Humaidan was convicted in 2012 after...
Three international journalists expelled from Bahrain Three journalists working for the British television network ITV were ordered to leave Bahrain on April 19 after being held briefly by...
Bahraini online journalist sentenced to life for covering country’s turmoil Bahrain’s High Court of Appeal upheld on Sept. 4 a life sentence given to online journalist Abduljalil Alsingace for “plotting to topple” the...
