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  • Yemen
    Yemen TV v Yemen TV: Saudi Arabia steps up propaganda war with copycat media

    With the Houthi rebels having taken over Yemen's state media, the Saudi backers of the exiled government have set up doppelgangers - differing only in their version of events

  • Combating Extremism
    Saudi Arabia mobilizes clergy and media against jihadi recruitment

    Informed by its previous experience, the kingdom is using an array of tools against jihadi recruitment apart from the media. A royal decree in February ordered long jail terms for people who went to fight overseas or helped others do so, or for those giving moral or material aid to groups including Islamic State and al Qaeda's official offshoot in Syria, the Nusra Front. Several people have already been convicted. Top clerics including the Grand Mufti and members of the Senior Council of Scholars, the highest religious bodies in the kingdom, have repeatedly denounced militant groups in sermons and fatwas. While some senior government-appointed clerics have described the Syrian war as a jihad, they have made clear it is one that should be fought by Syrians, not by Saudis.

  • Saudi-Iraq
    Saudi Arabia and Iraq to halt media attacks on each other

    Sources in both countries confirmed that relations were on the path of improvement as the countries were seeking reopening embassies, monitoring their international borders to stop infiltration and resuming work on security agreements which were all but suspended under the administration of former Prime Minister Noori al-Maliki.

  • Social Media
    Social media in Saudi Arabia: A virtual revolution

    Tune into one of Saudi Arabia’s television channels and you are likely to find a stuffy report praising the government or a sheikh spinning a dreary sermon. Little wonder that so many Saudis turn to YouTube and other online broadcasters for light relief. That has led to the emergence of new media companies, mainly in the more liberal coastal city of Jeddah, dedicated to amusing the kingdom’s growing population.