Manal and Alaa's bit bucket

The Saudi clerics want to restrict women praying in Mecca by having them not being able to pray in the vicinity of the Kaaba, but rather some place farther away, where they can still see the Kaaba, but not pray next to it, thus ensuring that only men get to pray in the direct vicinity [...]

All of my favorite Saudi female bloggers: Farah , Eve and Jo are featured in this article on Saudi female bloggers, written by another Saudi blogger Rasheed Abou-Alsamh. My only complaint is that the Blogistani fuckhead Green Tea (who ain't gonna get a link from me) is mentioned in it- who [...]

Farooha is informing us of the latest fad the Boycott afficinados in Saudi came up with: Boycott the world-cup because it has insulted Islam by placing the Saudi-flag on a football!Here is the e-mail getting circulated in Saudi as translated by Farooha:Subject: Woe to Sports! And woe to Football..!The words of monotheism, on a [...]

The world cup has descended upon us, and if you are one of the unfortunate souls who live in the middle-east, you are pretty much hating Sheikh Saleh Kamel for buying the exclusive rights to watch the Worldcup. No one said it better than Hal in this post.Since I am feeling angry and want to [...]

Hey,now that they are looking for witches, maybe now the Mutawas will lay off the women. Oh, who am I kidding? Witches are usually women anyway. Oh Boy!

The Saudi female blogger Eve just had her blog blocked in Saudi thanks to the valiant efforts of the Saudi male Blogistanis who really hate to see women expressing themselves over the inetrnet, or like, anywhere. The other saudi female bloggers (Aya and Farah to cite an example) are fuming [...]

A message sent to you from a 23 year old female from the Kingdom of  Saudi Arabia Lunacy!

Despite assurances to the contrary, they still preach hate to the infidel christians and the misguided Jews!

By order of the king nonetheless:King Abdullah has told Saudi editors to stop publishing pictures ofwomen because they could lead young men astray, newspapers reportedTuesday.[…]The king told editors on Monday night that publishing a woman's picture was inappropriate."One must think, 'do they want their daughter, their sister, ortheir wife to appear in this way?' [...]

This is funny , albeit pathetic:Saudi Arabia has postponed plans to replace male sales staff in lingerie shops with women.The move had been its first cautious attempt to bring more women into the work-place.Why did they do that? Well, the mufti, ehh, intervened:But even minor reforms have incurred the wrath of ultra-conservativereligious leaders, such as [...]

The crazy terrorism syndrome reaches Saudi. According to this Al Arabiya article , the Saudi interior ministry declared that the guy who opened fire at the American Consulate in Saudi was- get this- CRAZY. This, of course, makes all egyptians laugh (you should see the comments in the article's comments section. Funny ass shit) because [...]

It is not uncommon knowledge that Farooha is one of my favorite bloggers , and anyone who reads her blog can easily tell why. Girl is gutsy. I mean, for a girl who lives in saudi to want to wear this shirt and state it publicly , well, political leanings non-withstanding, just [...]