A social-issue revenge thriller, ‘Exile’ follows Hmili’s Locarno-bowed ‘Streams’ that won director at Malmö, actor at Cairo, ...

The Arab Spring, five years on: A season that began in hope, but ended in desolation. ... Saudi Arabia sent in troops and Western protests at the repression were feeble.

For decades, the specter of a Third World War loomed large in my mind, fueled by youthful readings of Nostradamus’s prophecies and shaped by early global events when I was a student of Bayero ...

Born in 1931 in Saudi Arabia, al-Madkhali studied under many of the prominent scholars of the Salafi movement, including ...

Al-Jasser ran a personal blog from 2013 to 2015 and was well-known for his articles on the Arab Spring movements that shook the Middle East in 2011, women’s rights and corruption. Saudi Arabia has ...

The carpet rolled out to Bashar al-Assad by the Arab League in Jeddah this week opens a grim new chapter in a darkening world. Hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions displaced by the ...

Back in 2010, when I was serving as deputy chief of the CIA's Near East Division, the Arab Spring engulfed the Middle East, bringing with it levels of popular unrest not seen since the fall of the ...

Amnesty International says executions in Saudi Arabia hit a record high last year, with 345 people put to death.

Israel once hoped to be a true economic force in the Middle East, with a path mapped out for a more stable future, including normalization of relationships with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab ...