Saudi, UAE officials use social media to signal unity after months of tension

RIYADH, July 21 (Reuters) - Senior Saudi and United Arab Emirates officials on Tuesday shared similar social media posts ...
Middle East Eye

Pilgrims and tourists detained in Saudi Arabia over online posts

Report documents cases of arrests and lengthy sentences due to social media expression, as wife of French detainee tells MEE her husband faces 'repeated abuses' Ahmed al-Doush, who was working for ...
Al-Monitor

Saudi names conservative grand mufti despite sweeping social change

Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of Islam and home to its holiest sites — - Saudi Arabia has appointed a conservative cleric in his nineties as its top religious leader, state media said, sticking with ...
Al-Monitor

'Crumbs of freedom': Saudi sisters prove limits of social change

The youngest of the three Otaibi sisters, Manahel, now 29, is photographed walking through the streets of Riyadh in Western dress before her arrest in 2022 for challenging the kingdom's dress code for ...