RIYADH: When Hala Al-Masaad invited her girlfriends over to celebrate her 18th birthday with cake and juice, the high school student was stepping into an unusual public debate. Is celebrating birthdays un-Islamic?
Saudi Arabia s most senior (...)
RIYADH: Every single man knows: Walking a dog in the park equals sure babe magnet. Saudi Arabia s Islamic religious police, in their zeal to keep the sexes apart, want to make sure the technique doesn t catch on here.The solution: Ban selling dogs (...)
RIYADH: Abdul-Rahman Al-Nasser owns a gold store with case after case of glittering necklaces, earrings and bracelets. All it lacks is customers.
Shoppers are buying just one set of gold for weddings these days, instead of at least two for the (...)
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BEIRUT: The daily carnage in Iraq is claiming another casualty; Arab reformers who have increasingly become the target of governments that no longer feel pressured by the United States to change.
Ten intellectuals were (...)