From Saudi Arabia Corespondent Eman Al Nafjan… With what’s going on right now in Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Tunis and Egypt, I get a lot of questions about how Saudis are taking it and what’s the reaction. The short answer is they are shocked and captivated but haven’t made up their minds about any of it. [...]

From Saudi Arabia Corespondent Eman Al Nafjan… If you’re sick and tired of reading my posts on lifting the women driving ban, don’t go any further. I’m sick of it too. I truly believed that by now some sort of change would have happened. Around April there were all these strong rumors and alleged leaks [...]

From Saudi Arabia Corespondent Eman Al Nafjan… The Committee for the Prevention of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue (better known as the PVPV) is a Saudi Arabian governmental watch dog organization that operates like a religious police force, annoying, lecturing, harassing, beating and, as in the case below, attempting to murder its own citizens [...]

From Saudi Arabia Corespondent Eman Al Nafjan… Yesterday afternoon a document went viral all across the online news agencies and social media. The document is dated Sunday the 31st of October and in it is a fatwa and not just any fatwa, an official fatwa from the governmentally appointed committee for fatwas i.e. the highest council of [...]

From Saudi Arabia Corespondent Eman Al Nafjan… I’ve been wanting to write this post all day but I just couldn’t get myself to do it. I wanted to write about how frustrated and sad I am, but what does it matter how I feel standing as a helpless onlooker, reading these horror stories about 10, [...]

From Saudi Arabia Corespondent Eman Al Nafjan… I occasionally get Emails and comments from non-Arab people asking what they can do to help. Generally there isn’t much that can be done by outsiders as it’s my belief that sustainable change is only change that happens from within. However in areas where West collides with East [...]

From Saudi Arabia Corespondent Eman Al Nafjan… Ok I took a break and I learned something about myself. I’m a polygamist, I’ve married this blog over the father of my children and now I’m attached to it and cannot stay away too long from my spoiled second husband, let alone two months. If I try, [...]

From Saudi Arabia Corespondent Eman Al Nafjan… The fight against terrorism in Saudi Arabia is taken very seriously and hundreds of terrorists have been caught. Last March 113 members of sleeper cells were arrested. The Saudi media at the time did not focus much on who these people were, until June 3rd when the head [...]

From Saudi Arabia Corespondent Eman Al Nafjan…  I was invited by the German Foreign Ministry to spend ten days in Berlin as part of a blogger tour initiative. I’ve never been to Germany before as a tourist, let alone a guest of the government. It was an educational experience in which I learned a lot [...]

From Saudi Arabia Correspondent Eman Al Nafjan… Great controversy is brewing in Saudi Arabia and it all starts and ends with Sheikh Ahmed Al Ghamdi. Al Ghamdi is a 47 year old PhD holder in administration and strategical planning and also has spent 15 years studying Islam. The whole issue began when Okaz Newspaper published [...]