NOVANEW by American Bedu I am so very disappointed to be wrong. Back in March 2012 I actually felt confident that Saudi Arabia would be sending women athletes to compete in the London summer Olympics. However, in April 2012 the […]
NOVANEWS by American Bedu I have a question. How and when does a woman living in polygamy tell her children that Daddy has another family? How does polygamy impact on the children? Does it make him […]
by American Bedu Is there a global stereotype about the Saudi woman that she is meek and fearful to speak out? I think this video clearly dispels such impressions. The video illustrates how the Muttawa (Religious Police) […]
NOVANEWS By Glen Carey As he begins his eighth year on the throne, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia confronts a region facing unprecedented political changes as well as mounting social pressures at home. The country […]
NOVANEWS By Andrew Hammond (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s thrust for a Gulf Union, driven by fear of Arab Spring contagion and spreading Iranian influence, has stumbled on misgivings among smaller neighbors about a loss of sovereignty […]
NOVANEWS Conservative forces and modernizers are struggling over the role of women in Saudi society. A Saudi woman watches a Youtube video in Jeddah. (Reuters). I was visiting Saudi Arabia last week, King Abdullah fired […]
NOVANEWS Top Saudi religious figure blames Muslim sinfulness for instability taking hold of Arab world ed note–argumentatively-speaking, this is akin to saying that ‘germs cause disease’ without giving any further context. No, the reason there […]
NOVANEWS Enormously popular, extremist Saudi clerics are promoting hatred, violence, and intolerance on Facebook and Twitter. Can they be stopped? BY JONATHAN SCHANZER, STEVEN L. MILLER Despite assurances from the Saudi government that it is […]
NOVANEWS (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia repeated on Wednesday that it would not tolerate threats to the Gulf Arab states’ sovereignty, the latest warning to Iran after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to an island claimed by both Tehran […]
NOVANEWS Saudi Arabia: Dancing to Israel’s Tunes By Kourosh Ziabari The fact that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has joined the vicious triangle of the United States, Israel and Britain to destabilize the Islamic Republic […]