Saudi Arabia

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  • Gates: Saudi women vital to economy

    The Microsoft chairman said to be truly competitive, an economy can't exclude "half the talent in the country."
    By Tracy Clark-Flory January 29, 2007

  • Princess would give Saudi women license to drive

    Too bad the decision isn't up to her.
    By Carol Lloyd January 25, 2007

  • Why I defend "terrorists"

    An open letter to Cully Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, from a lawyer representing five men at Guantánamo.
    By Anant Raut January 17, 2007

  • Pointed protest

    Spain's justice minister cancels a talk at a Saudi university because the school won't let women attend the event.
    By Catherine Price January 16, 2007

  • Did the U.S. just provoke Iran?

    Thursday's raid on the Iranian consulate is more evidence that President Bush is ready to escalate the conflict.
    By Juan Cole January 12, 2007

  • No good choices

    Saudis reportedly threaten to back Sunni insurgency if Bush pulls out of Iraq.
    By Tim Grieve December 13, 2006

  • When the perpetrator is the victim

    Under Utah law, a 13-year-old girl may be treated as a sex offender and a victim for the same act.
    By Carol Lloyd December 7, 2006

  • Ladies, no test spin for you

    Saudi women can buy and sell cars -- they just can't drive them.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory December 4, 2006

  • Partitioning Iraq

    Would dividing the country decrease ethnic infighting or lead to more fighting and inflame the Middle East?
    By Juan Cole October 30, 2006

  • The road to 9/11 and beyond

    In a riveting new book that ranges from ancient Mecca to the corridors of the FBI, Lawrence Wright brings to life the fanatics behind 9/11 -- and the turf wars that caused U.S. intelligence to miss it.
    By Mark Follman August 30, 2006

  • A Saudi uppercut to peak oil doomers?

    Would you like a little steam injection with your heavy crude?
    By Andrew Leonard July 10, 2006

  • Saudi women blog about oppression

    The Web lets young Saudi Arabian women rage against the machine.
    By Page Rockwell January 24, 2006

  • What Michael Moore (and the neocons) don't know about Saudi Arabia

    The left and the right have both crudely demonized the desert kingdom. But the ascension of King Abdullah gives the U.S. a chance to solidify relations with this flawed but key ally.
    By Juan Cole August 5, 2005

  • Our good friends, the Saudis

    If a wave of democracy is sweeping the Middle East, it sure hasn't washed over Riyadh yet.
    By Mark Follman May 16, 2005

  • Right Hook

    Why have conservatives been silent about new evidence that the Bush administration sanctioned torture? Victor Davis Hanson and Jonah Goldberg tell us.
    by Mark Follman February 28, 2005

  • The Saudis just say no to Bush

    The desert kingdom's elite say a second term would be "catastrophic."
    By Claude Salhani September 21, 2004

  • Sen. Graham: Bush covered up Saudi involvement in 9/11

    The former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee tells Salon that the White House has suppressed convincing evidence that Saudi government agents aided at least two of the hijackers.
    By Mary Jacoby September 8, 2004

  • America's Achilles' heel

    The insurgents in Iraq know that keeping its oil flowing is crucial to U.S. success in the war -- and they're doing all they can to muck things up.
    By Robert Bryce August 16, 2004

  • Persecuted for their faith -- and ignored by the U.S.

    If Bush truly believes religion is the "first freedom of the human soul," why isn't his administration pressuring countries that persecute people for their beliefs?
    By Judd Legum August 4, 2004

  • Bush's bungled Saudi deal-making

    President Bush and his lawyer, the former U.S. ambassador in Riyadh, wasted a golden opportunity to pressure the Saudis to crack down on terrorism.
    By Charles Tiefer July 23, 2004

  • Between Iraq and a hard place

    From the Iraq quagmire to our incoherent Saudi relationship to our pro-Sharon tilt, U.S. Mideast policy is a shambles.
    By Steven A. Cook July 14, 2004

  • More murky U.S. deals with the Saudis

    A Briton freed from dubious imprisonment in Saudi Arabia as part of a deal that released suspected terrorists from Guantanamo blasts the trade as hypocritical and immoral.
    By Jefferson Morley July 13, 2004

  • I married a bin Laden

    Osama's former sister-in-law tells all: Secret Saudi lesbian trysts, a husband who ordered her to have abortions, and the magical power of the name bin Laden within the Saudi luxury class.
    By Suzy Hansen July 10, 2004

  • Saudi Arabia's man in Baghdad

    The neocons are fuming, but the choice of Ghazi al-Yawar as Iraq's interim president may be one of the White House's few smart moves.
    By Maggie Mitchell Salem July 1, 2004

  • Abolish the terror tax

    People who hate America are flush with money from oil sales -- we should stop subsidizing them by becoming more energy independent.
    By James P. Pinkerton June 15, 2004
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