During the 1980s, if Saudi’s religious police caught ... According to the World Bank, Saudi Arabia’s current female labor participation rate is around 21 percent — which is about 8 percent ...

Talk of repudiating Saudi Arabia has likewise dissolved into arms ... of nations are possible without basic rights for women, religious minorities, et al.” Need a break? Play the USA TODAY ...

In Saudi Arabia, the government takes that thinking further: In 2004, it set up a high profile "rehabilitation" system for terrorists which hoped to deradicalize them through religious ...

they constitute only 12 percent of the country’s employed. Service positions — sales clerks, maids, waiters, etc. — are held by 8 million foreign workers in the country. “On Saudi Arabia ...

“Seventy percent ... Saudi Arabia and the entire region went through a revival after ‘79. … All we’re doing is going back to what we were: a moderate Islam that is open to all religions ...

Religious pilgrimages brought in $12 billion before the pandemic — accounting for the largest percentage of Saudi Arabia’s gross domestic product after oil. Although virus cases have risen ...

According to the UK-based Islamic Heritage Research Foundation, over 98 percent of Saudi Arabia’s historical and religious sites have been destroyed since 1985, Time reports. The Saudi rulers ...

Before we get into these issue-specific statistics, we can see in basic demographics something that’s different about living in Saudi Arabia as a woman: Only 42.5 percent of the population is ...