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Saudi Arabia

Tech World

How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter

Two well-liked Twitter employees accessed thousands of users’ private information and illegally passed it to the Saudi Royal Family, per the FBI.

Alex Kantrowitz Buzzfeed Feb 2020 10min Permalink

World

Mohammed bin Zayed’s Dark Vision of the Middle East’s Future

The enigmatic leader of the U.A.E. may soon emerge as the region’s most powerful figure. What does he really want?

Robert F. Worth New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 Permalink

No One Is Safe

How Saudi Arabia makes dissidents disappear.

Ayman M. Mohyeldin Vanity Fair Jul 2019 20min Permalink

The Warhead and the Well

Tracing an airstrike halfway around the world back to an American bomb factory.

Jeffrey E. Stern The New York Times Magazine Dec 2018 30min Permalink

World

How the War in Yemen Became a Bloody Stalemate—and the Worst Humanitarian Crisis in the World

Saudi Arabia thought a bombing campaign would quickly crush its enemies in Yemen. But three years later, the Houthis refuse to give up, even as 14 million people face starvation.

Robert F. Worth New York Times Magazine Oct 2018 35min Permalink

The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia's War

How an economic war has pushed millions to the brink of starvation.

Declan Walsh New York Times Oct 2018 25min Permalink

Politics World

A Saudi Prince’s Quest to Remake the Middle East

In his work with the White House, is Mohammed bin Salman driving out extremism, or merely seizing power for himself?

Dexter Filkins New Yorker Mar 2018 45min Permalink

How the U.S. Is Making the War in Yemen Worse

Why are we still involved?

Nicolas Niarchos The New Yorker Jan 2018 20min Permalink

World Travel

“I am Here Only for Working”

Conversations with the petroleum brotherhood in the UAE.

William T. Vollmann Harper's Nov 2017 30min Permalink

Crime World

Diary: Guantánamo

Accused of being part of a terror cell at age 12, Gitmo’s youngest prisoner recounts his life

Mohammed el Gorani, Jérôme Tubiana London Review of Books Dec 2011 20min Permalink

World Travel

The Long Ride to Riyadh

Taking a taxi across the Saudi desert.

Dave Eggers New Statesman May 2014 45min Permalink

World Travel

Last Morning in Al Hamra

On living in Saudi Arabia.

Hilary Mantel The Spectator Jan 1987 15min Permalink

World

The Strange Power of Qatar

How the contradiction-rich “country the size of Connecticut” that birthed Al-Jazeera has played an integral and surprising role in the revolutions of the Arab Spring.

Hugh Eakin New York Review of Books Oct 2011 20min Permalink

Best Article World

The Kingdom of Silence

The story of three months spent training reporters in Saudi Arabia, where the press is far from free. “I suspected that behind the closed gates of Saudi society there was a social revolution in the making. With some guidance, I thought, these journalists could help inspire change.”

Lawrence Wright New Yorker Jan 2004 Permalink

World

The Kingdom in the Closet

On gay life in Saudi Arabia.

Nadya Labi The Atlantic May 2007 25min Permalink