"Saudi school books feature women’s photos for the first time."

"Although the women appearing in photos in the books are veiled, the step is still regarded as a major change since only drawings of wo...

Arab tweets: gloating over Sandy and criticizing the gloating.

A headline at Al Arabiya News reports on the ugly: Commenting on the super-storm disaster, one person who identifies himself as a professor ...

"Why a Saudi blogger faces a possible death sentence for three tweets."

The Christian Science Monitor reports on the case of a 23-year-old man, Hamza Kashgari, who tweeted a birthday message to the prophet Muham...

King Abdullah, giving women the right to vote: "Balanced modernization, which falls within our Islamic values...."

"... is an important demand in an era where there is no place for defeatist or hesitant people." The news today, from Saudi Arabi...

Camel massacre.

For the earth. ADDED: If you're going to kill all those camels for the environment, why not do the fully conservationist thing and eat t...

"Saudi Facebook Campaign Calls on Men to Beat Women Drivers."

Says Gateway Pundit. A facebook campaign launched in Saudi Arabia is urging men to beat women who are caught driving. The page already has 6...

Manal al-Sharif, the woman leading the right-to-drive campaign, is arrested by the Saudis.

Was she arrested for driving or for speaking out about the driving ban? Ms. Sharif was arrested after two much-publicized drives last week ...

"To see resistance from a woman means a lot."

"People are fed up with these religious police, and now they have to pay the price for the humiliation they put people through for year...

"The arrest was scary and intimidating to bloggers but also empowering."

"It made bloggers know that their blogs are influential, and now they feel more of a responsibility and take their blogs more seriously...

"I am happy that I am divorced now. I will be able to go back to school."

Says the 8-year-old girl Nojud Mohammed Ali , whose lawyer said "I believe there are thousands of similar cases" in Yemen. In othe...

"An apology for what? Apologizing because I said the government is a liar when they accused those guys to be supporting terrorism?"

Asked Fouah al-Farhan , "the first Saudi blogger to be detained by state security. " The arrest created widespread anxiety among o...