By Deena Adel CAIRO – On a subway platform, a father turned to his son as he gazed at...
Nov 05, 2011
Revolutionary art mirrors Egypt’s changing pulse
By Sara Elkamel CAIRO, Egypt — Five years ago, long before Egypt’s January 25 Revolution broke out on Police...
Oct 30, 2011
In Madrid, noted bookseller pushes LGBT visibility
By Guy Hedgecoe MADRID — Mili Hernandez, 51, remembers with a shudder Francisco Franco’s “Law of Social Danger,”...
Oct 27, 2011
Saudi Arabia steps forward with women’s suffrage
Five years ago, Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Abdul Aziz Aal Al Sheikh, was asked his opinion about women...
Sep 30, 2011
Highway 15: The long road to rehabilitation
HEZNA, Saudi Arabia – Turn off Highway 15 near the city of Al Baha and a narrow, winding...
Sep 06, 2011
Saudi Arabia’s Highway 15 revisited
AL BAHA, Saudi Arabia – The road to September 11th began here on Highway 15, which stretches from...
Sep 06, 2011
Women’s rights key to kingdom’s future
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Our car slipped into the fast-moving traffic on a three-lane causeway slicing through the...
Sep 06, 2011
9/11 forces change to Saudi’s global religious mission
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — For more than three decades, Saudi Arabia has used its vast oil riches to...
Sep 06, 2011
Saudi Islamists consider democracy, confront royal dogma
DOHA, Qatar — Muhammad Al Ahmari followed the uprisings in Tunis and Cairo as they progressed live on the...
Sep 06, 2011
Ten years after 9/11, Saudi Arabia slowly modernizing
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Abdulaziz Al Rabah remembers it was a Tuesday. The call to evening prayer was...
Sep 06, 2011