You're a young guy with a few hours to waste. The sun is boiling. The tummy is starting to rumble and there in the distance, as if the higher forces had heard your call, is a glistening shopping mall with a food court and female shoppers that would (...)
Women exposing any body part beyond the hands and face can be sentenced to up to 70 lashes and two months in prison. Most women are barred from inheritance and the right to initiate a divorce, while men can hold multiple wives. Public buildings (...)
It all began in the early 1990's with Internet search engine startups like Excite, Galaxy, Lycos and Webcrawler.
Then Yahoo and Alta Vista moved in, followed only a few years later by what would become the neighborhood bully: Google.
Now Iran (...)
RIYADH: It's an almost weekly occurrence. Saudi citizens sit down for their morning coffee or tea, open the newspaper and read a story, sometimes highly censored, about a child marriage. Sometimes the story is of an elderly man who married a (...)
Contrary to the belief that Arab women throughout the Middle East do not have access to or interest in the internet outside of work, the vast majority of Arab women access the web from home, belong to a social networking site and use the internet to (...)
RIYADH: Saudi King Abdullah unveiled his country's first domestically manufactured car on Monday.
The all-terrain "Ghazal 1" was designed over two years by student engineers at the King Saud University in Riyadh in cooperation with a number of (...)
TEL AVIV: Within hours of Israel's deadly raid on a Turkish ship filled with humanitarian supplies and carrying hundreds of international activists, the digital war began.
Various sides tried to push their version of the incident on Twitter, (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Nobel Peace Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei become the most popular Arab political figure on Facebook, overtaking Jordan's Queen Rania's previously dominant position across global social networks.
ElBaradei, the former director of the (...)
On first glance, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's comments at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday were rather innocuous.
Speaking to the month-long review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the pact meant to (...)
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia's legislature has approved plans to build an international airport outside Islam's holiest city in an effort to cater to more than two million pilgrims who visit the city each year.
The Shura Counci, Saudi Arabia 's advisory (...)
TEHRAN:Veiled and to some degree hidden from public life, many in the West assume that Iranian women lead largely self-effacing lives.
But according to a recent study by an Iranian economics think tank, it turns out Iranian women are some of the (...)
Sweden's largest pension funds have elected to remove Israeli defence electronics company Elbit Systems from its investment portfolios over its involvement in the construction and operation of the Israeli separation barrier being built around the (...)