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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Saudi Arabia ... and religious policy since 1979. This shift has proved so popular among so many Saudi women and young people that women’s participation in the work force jumped to 35 percent ...