Saudi
Bomber planning to attack Mecca’s Grand Mosque blows himself up
By Reuters — June 24, 2017
DUBAI (Reuters) The interior ministry said that three cells had planned the attack on worshippers and security forces at the mosque as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan nears its climax.
Gay Muslim filmmaker risks death in pilgrimage to reconcile faith and sexuality
By Reuters — June 9, 2015
LONDON (Reuters) Millions of Muslims each year make the arduous and exhausting hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, but for one filmmaker, it was a journey that could have cost him his life.
Who are the Wahhabi Muslims? Muslim puritans, United States allies
By Omid Safi — March 7, 2013
How the Wahhabi clerics, in tandem with Saudi royal elite, have destroyed 90% of Islamic monuments in Mecca and Medina.
Super Bowl ads and Saudi sexism
By Omid Safi — February 4, 2013
In expressing our dismay at the sexism of Saudi society, I hope that we remember the sexism of our own society here in the US, as evidenced in almost every single Super Bowl ad last night.
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