Saudi Arabia to whip, jail 75-year-old widow CAIRO, March 10 – The sentencing of a 75-year-old widow to 40 lashes and four months in prison for mingling with two young men who were reportedly bringing her bread has sparked new criticism of Saudi Arabia’s ultraconservative religious police and ju...

Female bloggers from across the Middle East joined hands in marking the International Women's Day with posts reflecting on the occasion and celebrating the lives and achievements of women who have touched them. In Saudi Arabia, American Bedu admits that while many women in the kingdom may not ev...

What a skank. A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having two unrelated men in her house, according to local media reports. According to the Saudi daily newspaper Al-Watan, troubles for the woman, K...

Discussing the flare up over possible National Intelligence Council chair Chas Freeman, M.J. Rosenberg writes something that deserves some parsing: Now Jonathan Chait of the New Republic is an interesting case. He's liberal on every single issue but Israel (on which he is pure neocon), not only libe...

Israeli media is marking today by taking a hard look at the challenges that Israel women still face on the path to full equality: Statistical reports published to coincide with International Women's Day Sunday reveal that in some aspects, the situation of women in the country has worsened. Weeks aft...

The Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) hopes to achieve a monetary union, with a common currency, by 2010. Bloggers from the region, which groups Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, debate the merits of the union and more importantly what name they want for their new curren...

It's official - Chas Freeman will be in charge of filtering and evaluating the intel that President Obama sees. He'll be using the same kind of analytic nuance that led him to once declare that "Israel excels at war... it has shown no talent for peace." And in case you didn't know - that little piec...

If you're interested in how the vaunted foreign policy community is circling its wagons around professional Israel hater Chas Freeman, you can check out this endorsement in the guise of an article by pro-Freeman partisan Laura Rozen: A source close to Freeman said that among the critics taking shots...

Ah the irony of it all: a Jewish created hospital, Sloan Cornell -- teeming Jewish brains. It's to laugh, it's to cry. Reuters AlertNet - Saudi crown prince has operation in U.S. A reader pointed out in another thread for altogether different reasons, the Saudis spend billions of dollars eve...

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