It has been a long time in coming, but we are finally witnessing the consequences of the reckless actions of politicians.

Last week a popular Riyadh coffee shop/library that offered tea and coffee to customers, as they browsed hundreds of titles, had its books seized by the representatives of the Saudi Ministry of Culture and Information.

The report about the death of Iranian Brig.

I used to love the French — their quirky manners, their obsession of speaking only French (even to non-French speakers), their museums, their rude taxi drivers and the long, lazy summers days marveling at the Paris architecture.

Donald Trump does not want to be the president. He says he wants to be elected to the highest office in the United States, but his behavior, his rhetoric and his performance at the three debates indicate a much broader, more insidious agenda that doesn't require the presidency.

There is a lot of excitement over the dramatic overhaul of the Saudi economy. No seismic shift in how a country conducts its business to ensure a healthy and robust economy can escape a mixture of optimism and more than a little hand-wringing.

Saudi citizenship rules have always been kind of tricky, not to mention notoriously difficult for foreigners to obtain even under the best of circumstances.

When western feminists and human rights activists attack Islam they often zero in on the most obvious target: The hijab. 

Whenever I go to my local medical center for an appointment or have my young daughter receive her vaccinations I see hundreds of Saudi women sitting in waiting rooms, veiled and with young children at their feet.

Saudi Arabia, exercising soft diplomacy as it pursues a more aggressive agenda in dealing with Syria and Yemen, has seen this week a second leader to visit the US in less than a year to meet with western leaders to discuss policies of global importance.