Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Madawi Al-Rasheed is professor of the anthropology of religion at Kings College, London. Her books include Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Voices from a New Generation (Cambridge University Press, 2006); Kingdom Without Borders: Saudi Arabia's Political, Religious and Media Frontiers (C Hurst, 2008); and A History of Saudi Arabia (Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 2011). Her website is here
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Published in: HomeSaudi Arabia and Syria: logic of dictatorsSaudi Arabia's support for the armed opposition in Syria reflects the way that the Arab spring is now hostage to...
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Published in: 50.50The Saudi response to the ‘Arab spring’: containment and co-optionSaudi Arabia’s response to the ‘Arab spring’ has been an attempt to co-opt movements for change in a bid to maintain...
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Published in: Home9/11: the memory of violence
The atrocity of 11 September 2001 entrenched an imaginary polarisation between “the west and the rest” - and buried...
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Published in: HomeThe Saudi complex: power vs rights
Saudi Arabia's rulers are deploying a mix of force and largesse to contain the threat of democratic protest. But an...