July 20, 2011 /
Foreign Policy
Ellen Knickmeyer
A wave of young Saudis are graduating and looking to move into the job market, but most cannot find work--a struggle reflected in the country's 40 percent unemployment rate.
July 6, 2011 /
Foreign Policy
Ellen Knickmeyer
Yemen's political future will depend on its relationship with Saudi Arabia.
June 28, 2011 /
Foreign Policy
Ellen Knickmeyer
The freedom to buy lingerie from other women may not sound like much. But activists say it's a start.
June 24, 2011 /
Foreign Policy
Ellen Knickmeyer
Former dictators ousted from countries such as Yemen and Tunisia have found a political safe haven in Saudi Arabia.
June 17, 2011 /
Foreign Policy
Ellen Knickmeyer
How one Saudi woman fought for women's equality by taking her Hummer out for a spin.
January 27, 2003 /
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jon Sawyer
On a stretch of empty desert just south of the Iraqi border, some 5,000 suffering Iraqis have been waiting 12 years for the United States to make good on its promises.
January 26, 2003 /
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jon Sawyer
Saudi Arabia is a deeply conservative kingdom that has long balanced a fierce commitment to Islamic tradition with a close embrace of the United States.
January 23, 2003 /
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jon Sawyer
The Saudi foreign minister, en route Wednesday between Cairo and Istanbul, said resistance to a U.S. war on Iraq is producing an extraordinary coming together of Islamic countries.