· April, 2010

Stories about Saudi Arabia from April, 2010

Egypt: Saudi Arabia Blocks ElBaradei's Site

  28 April 2010

Bikya Masr quotes the Arabic Network of Human Rights information saying that Saudi Arabia has “blocked the Internet website promoting Egypt’s leading opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei’s National Coalition for Change.”

Saudi Arabia: Poverty and Suicide

  13 April 2010

Saudi blogger Trad Alasmari (Ar) writes about suicide in Saudi Arabia (Warning: post contains picture of graphic nature). He claims that poverty could be to blame for its higher levels.

Arab World: iPad Fever Grips Arabia

  5 April 2010

Quick to purchase the latest gadgets and show them off, some bloggers and Twitter users from the Arab world are doing the iPad justice. Here's what a Saudi student and a Kuwait resident have to say about Apple's new toy.

Saudi Arabia: Religious Police in Trouble?

  5 April 2010

The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice rules Saudi Arabia with an iron fist. Crossroads Arabia reports what could signal trouble to the commission – better known as the religious police.