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• Wahhabist modernity: Saudi t.v. hosts ‘break new ground’ by wearing niqabs

  
  Vlad Tepes — Authority: 150
  From BBC News Saudi women enter Wahhabist ‘modernity’ through a ground breaking move to stay in the 7th century. Saudi TV presenters break new ground by wearing niqab Female presenters on the Saudi channel Awtan TV Amani Fikri BBC Arabic Service Until recently you would never have seen women ...
  9 hours ago

• Saudi, Israel tie-up in Turkmenistan over Natural Gas.

  
  World News Journal — Authority: 140
  UPI 10 December 2009 The drive by foreign companies to grab a piece of the action in gas-rich Turkmenistan is reported to be producing some strange bedfellows -- like PetroSaudi, owned by the son of King Abdallah, and Merhav, an Israeli conglomerate run by former intelligence officer Yosef Maiman. According to ...
  9 hours ago

• Hypocrisy: Saudi Arabia, the country that wont allow churches or synagogues, calls for boycott of Switzerland over minaret ban

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 596
  That is, it is hypocrisy from a Western point of view. As far as the Saudis are concerned, Islam is the truth, its truth is self-evident, and therefore the Swiss are obligated to accommodate it in a way that the Saudis are not obligated to accommodate non-Muslim religious observance. "Saudi Arabia calls to ...
  12 hours ago

• Holiday Decor

  
  JEDDAH DAILY PHOTO JOURNAL — Authority: 127
  With the climax of the annual Hajj comes one of the two religious holidays celebrated by Muslims. I saw many shops in the mall with what appeared to be symbolic Christmas decorations of large shiny ornaments and gift boxes in yuletide colors. Here in Saudi Arabia, no other religions are allowed to be practised other ...
  14 hours ago

• Mint Tea

  
  Ya Salam Cooking — Authority: 112
  The first person that ever made me mint tea was my husband right after we got married. I had never tried very much variety of tea so this was all new to me. I immediately fell in love with it. This is such a refreshing drink that it goes well for morning or evening. You can add fresh mint leaves inside the tea up or ...
  15 hours ago

• U.S. says has no evidence Iran backs Yemen rebels

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 715
  Source: Reuters * U.S. says no "independent information" to back claim * Official says "dangerous to exaggerate" divisions MANAMA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - A U.S. official said on Friday he had ...
  15 hours ago

• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
  15 hours ago

• Houthis opened a new front with Saudi Arabia

  
  Roads to Iraq — Authority: 472
  Houthis opened a new front in Al-Jaber village, taking control on Saudi military base “Al-Jaberiya” and confiscating the whole military hardware of the base forcing the Saudi army to retreat. Houthis also released a video clip of the Saudi army advancing into the Yemeni territories, saying they managed to ...
  16 hours ago

• TV Psychic to be Executed for Witchcraft

  
  JustGetThere — Authority: 136
  By Chris Capps Unexplainable | A television psychic traveling through the country of Saudi Arabia has been condemned to death by Saudi courts. Ali Sabat, not native to the country, was traveling through on a Pilgrimage when he was nabbed earlier last year by police. Mr. Sabat is known for his television ...
  16 hours ago

• Englands Nick Matthew remains upbeat as Saudi looms

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  English hopes of beginning 2010 with a world No 1 hinge on Nick Matthews run in the Saudi International.
  17 hours ago

• What Climategate and Copenhagen are really about…

  
  Akkam's Razor — Authority: 126
  In a nutshell ( Jeff McMahon at True/Slant ): [US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke] said unparalleled economic growth occurred in the 20th Century because of two factors: access to cheap, abundant fossil fuels and ignorance or disregard for the fact that those fuels produced greenhouse gas pollution that caused ...
  20 hours ago

• Kicking down the Barriers

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 476
  Saudi Gazette runs a piece on ‘mixing’ of the sexes in public places that really kicks down the door of stereotypes, particularly those held by many Saudis. The head of the religious police, formally the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, says that not only is it permitted, but those ...
  21 hours ago

• Blood Thicker than Money

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 476
  As readers will have noted, economics is not the primary focus of this blog. Occasionally an economic story involving Saudi Arabia will come out that recommends itself because of what it says about Saudi society and its mores. This is one of those, I believe… In many ways, the structure of Saudi society, whether on ...
  21 hours ago

• Crown Prince Returns to Saudi Arabia

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 476
  The big news, anticipated in the media for over a year, is that Prince Sultan, the Crown Prince, is finally returning to the Kingdom. He had been in ill health, with rumors flying around about just what was the matter with him. One report notoriously had him dying while being treated abroad—that ended up with a ...
  22 hours ago

• Senator Jeff Sessions urges Attorney General Eric Hold to suspend GITMO detainee transfers to Saudia Arabia

  
  The Conservative Beacon — Authority: 125
  Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting that the Obama administration suspend the policy of shipping some GITMO detainees to Saudi Arabia for so-called jihadi rehab. It’s about time someone in our government speaks out against rehab for terrorists. Sen. Sessions ...
  1 day ago

• The answer could be blowing in the wind

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Well into the first week of the U.N. Conference on Climate Change, the haves and have nots of the world are still divided over who should pay for the cleanup of the planet. Poor countries want rich countries to cough up more ambitious goals for emissions cuts and developing technologies. From emerging wind and ...
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• SkyWatch: Medina at Sunrise

  
  JEDDAH DAILY PHOTO JOURNAL — Authority: 127
  My friend Anne traveled to Medina recently and took some gorgeous photos of the Prophet’s Mosque at sunrise. She gave me permission to post this one on my blog for SkyWatch. The mosque itself is spectacular, but at this time of day with dawn’s first light of daybreak and the glow of the lights, I just thought it ...
  1 day ago

• Hypocrisy: Saudi Arabia, the country that wont allow churches or synagogues, calls for boycott of Switzerland over minaret ban

  
  Jihad Watch — Authority: 729
  That is, it is hypocrisy from a Western point of view. As far as the Saudis are concerned, Islam is the truth, its truth is self-evident, and therefore the Swiss are obligated to accommodate it in a way that the Saudis are not obligated to accommodate non-Muslim religious observance. "Saudi Arabia calls to boycott ...
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• U.S. Detainees Terrorizing After Saudi Rehab

  
  Judicial Watch - — Authority: 543
  A Saudi Arabian “rehabilitation” program that supposedly reforms Guantanamo Bay jihadists has instead served as a training camp for future terrorists yet the Obama Administration ardently supports it and continues sending detainees its way.  Earlier this year the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency revealed ...
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• Facing pipeline, Saudi oil company moves coral reef

  
  Reef Builders -The Reef Aquarium Blog — Authority: 142
  A Saudi Arabian oil company recently completed a relocation of a small coral reef found to be in harms way of a planned pipeline in the Arabian Gulf. Aramco, the Saudi state owned oil company, discovered the small reef in an environmental impact assessment around 100 meters offshore that was in the path of a trench to ...
  1 day ago

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