In Saudi Arabia, non-Muslim expats often say to me, ‘You get treated better here because you are Muslim.’ The fact that they are not, leads them to believe that in general Saudi people behave...

Today, Saudi Arabia has flung its doors wide open to visitors and tourists. It has also backed off on limiting what travelers can and can't bring into the kingdom. With that in mind, I wondered if...

Until 2019 and with the introduction of the Saudi Tourist eVisa, I never saw women traveling alone in Saudi Arabia. Today, thankfully, I still don't see them much.   It’s not that they are...

In the UK, my boys saw many dogs, but feel very wary in their presence. This is because they were raised in Saudi Arabia. Here, people don’t normally have any contact with dogs at all, except when...

Our readers often comment that getting Saudi nationality is a near impossibility. I thought so, too. However, I discovered that in reality, the Saudi government awards citizenship by royal decree to...

As I read the Holy Quran, I notice that Allah (SWT) often mentions the name of the city of Mecca, (Makkah) in a number of verses (Ayats). Even before Islam began more than 1,400 years ago, the city...