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Radical Reforms in Saudi Arabia are Changing the Gulf and the Arab World

June 23, 2018

By Ani Karapetyan

The crown prince is liberalising social norms and the economy, but clamping down on political dissent SOURCE: THE ECONOMIST YEAR AFTER YEAR Arwa Alneami’s pictures of women at an amusement park captured the obsessions of Saudi Arabia’s killjoy religious police. On “the ship”, a wild-swinging ride, black-clad women and white-robed men were made to sit … Continued

How to Ensure Muhammad bin Salman’s Reforms Succeed

June 22, 2018

By Ani Karapetyan

SOURCE: THE ECONOMIST ONE Saudi cleric thundered that letting women drive would lead to immorality and a lack of virgins. Another declared that women were incapable of taking the wheel because they were half-brained. Still another drew on science, ruling that driving would damage their ovaries. Such tosh is at last being cast aside. On … Continued

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