Blog posts tagged "Saudi Arabia"

February 27, 2012 9:52 am 19 Comments

Channel 4 News presentert Jon Snow blogs on the Saudi Arabian government's decision to ban women athletes from the London Olympics

January 16, 2012 9:17 am 7 Comments

Jon Snow blogs on David Cameron's recent low-profile visit to Saudi Arabia.

September 26, 2011 7:37 am 12 Comments

Jon Snow considers the lot of women in Saudi society and the restrictions they still face.

June 21, 2011 9:40 am 31 Comments

"Can oil dependence, defence contracts and the rest really be the only excuse for the rest of the world, the UK and the US in particular, turning a very deliberately blind eye to the oppression of women in a country described as 'one of our closest allies'?"

May 31, 2011 7:04 am 8 Comments

"Many inside America's so-called 'Jewish lobby', are reportedly frustrated with the Israeli leadership's failure to respond to the developing new order that is flowing from the 'Arab Spring'."

May 24, 2011 4:12 pm 24 Comments

"Now this Saudi woman is in jail for doing what? Yes you read it right, getting behind the wheel of a car and, as a woman, driving the thing."

May 17, 2011 6:47 am 5 Comments

"Are our interests really being served by the growth of what look perilously close to highly trained mercenary forces? What measures are being taken by the UN and the international community to regulate these things?"

April 6, 2011 9:09 am 40 Comments

It was fine shipping potentially repressive equipment so long as the population was quiescent. Suddenly it wasn’t.

March 8, 2011 1:22 pm 27 Comments

The oil dependent West holds its breath as the growing unrest across the Arab world threatens to cause genuine 'oil shock'.

February 21, 2011 12:14 pm 45 Comments

How far will the sparks from the Arab uprisings spread around the world, asks Jon Snow.