The prohibition is thus entirely based on the country's conservative customs.

A Saudi having coffee with snowman.

Maz Jobrani A Saudi, an Indian and an Iranian walk into a Qatari bar

In this post one Saudi blogger gives his view of the situation.

A Saudi hashtag entitled tal3mrak which literary translates into May god prolong your life or your majesty if translated into a Western context took Twitter by storm today.

One Saudi blogger who prefers not to has been facing much criticism.

Watched footage of Saudi Man beating worker. Absolutely horrific.

He was the first Saudi athlete to compete in the world half marathon championships.

Saudi Jeans pointed out before the event, that due to the unreliable electricity supply in the capital,

What do we need as the Saudi blogosphere to reach the media in an official and recognised way?

That video of Saudi beating the foreign worker is just so so so horrifying.

There are Australian Islams and there is French Islams and there are Saudi Islams and Malaysian Islams.

A video of a Saudi man beating and insulting a foreign worker is making the rounds online.

Russia and Chile Join the Global Campaign to Save a Saudi Poet From Execution

Saudi Jeans writes an open letter to jailed Saudi blogger Fouad Al Farhan here.

Roughly 40,000 Saudis are expected to compete for 1,700 seats in 178 municipal councils.

A Saudi cleric decreed that building snowmen and snow camels is not acceptable in Islam.

You've seen it all. The image is in reference to the French show, have you ever seen..?.

The Saudi film Manahi was shown before a mixed sex audience in Jeddah, and also in Taif.

From Saudi Arabia, American Bedu, an American married to a Saudi, asks why Saudi Arabia hasn't embarked on its own space programme

I answered, Yes, a group rebelling against the Yemeni government called the Houthis They crossed the Saudi border and killed a Saudi soldier at first, and now the Saudi forces are doing what they must to clear the area.

Saudi Blogger Ahmed Al Omran ( ahmed) wrote several tweets about the new draft and noted

Last week, Saudi Jeans announced that female blogger Hadeel was found in her bed in a coma.

It means that I believe we are better than this and we deserve better than this. While he agrees there are other deserving causes which need attention, such as Saudi Arabia's 75 detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Saudi Jeans notes

A Saudi researcher in Shariah law find that there is precedent to ban Umrah pilgrims (those who undertake the non obligatory, lesser pilgrimage) who come from areas beset with the A H1N1 or swine flu virus.

Nzingha, who is married to a Saudi, discusses how she and her children will feel about Christmas, when she visits her brother in the US.

Issandr El Amrani, from Egypt, reports that a Saudi prince is calling for the formation of a political party and the release of reformists from prison.

Saudi blogger Saudi Jeans discusses a talk by Saudi King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies head Prince Turki Al Faisal on Saudi diplomacy.

A Saudi entrepreneur has offered 10 million for one of the pair of shoes.

Osama Al Muwallad () (born 15 May 1984) is a Saudi Arabian football (soccer) player who currently plays as a defender for Al Ittihad.

Talal, a Saudi blogger who lives in the US, warns us about how vulnerable societies built on hypocrisy are, saying Al Farhan's arrest was a mistake.

Saudi Jeans attended a two day Human Rights conference in Cairo, Egypt, and shares his impressions of the country and event in this post.

Human Rights Watch has just released its country reports on Saudi Arabia, writes Saudi Jeans, who goes on to discuss justice and the constitution in his country.

Salem al Hazmi (, , also transliterated as Alhazmi) (February 2, 1981 September 11, 2001) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77 as part of the September 11 attacks.

Saudi Jeans comments on an article by a senior Saudi cleric arguing for less health and more religious studies programmes at universities.

Saudi Arabia is monitoring tweets by lawyers to ensure that they don't break laws. Offending lawyers are subjected to punishment according to the severity of their tweets, a Saudi official stated.

Satam Muhammed Abdel Rahman al Suqami (, ) (June 28, 1976 September 11, 2001) was a Saudi law student and one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 as part of the September 11 attacks.

Sefr al Hawali, a prominent Saudi Wahhabi cleric, warned of the dangers of the Shia arc following the Shia intifada in Iraq in 1991.

A Saudi American tweep nicknamed ( Ana3rabeya) referred to Princess Amira Al Taweel, the wife of Prince Waleed Bin Talal, who tweeted two months ago saying that Shaima got her sentence dropped Ana3rabeya Fictional TruthSeeker Was there, or was there Not, Royal Pardon issued 4 Shaima Lashing Sentence? , Ameerah Al Taweel Crickets .

Ahmed Ibrahim al Haznawi Alghamdi (, ) (October 11, 1980 September 11, 2001) was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.

A fight broke out in a Riyadh mosque between Saudis and Egyptians after a Saudi clergyman cursed Egyptian Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah el Sisi during today's Friday prayers sermon.

Ahmed bin Abdullah al Nami (Arabic أحمد بن عبد الله النعمي, also transliterated as Alnami August 17, 1977 September 11, 2001) was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.

Mr. Abdul Aziz Saleh Slimane Djerboue, a Saudi Arabian citizen born on 12 October 1967 in Riyadh, is a teacher and is being held in detention at El Hayr prison in Riyadh.

Similar concerns were raised a few years ago, when bird flu (H5N1) was threatening. One Saudi scholar called for Haj to be canceled if there were a severe outbreak, but that proposal was shot down by others.

Why was Al Arabiya newsreader Maysoon Azzam laughing when reading the news? Saudi Jeans wonders what tickled the newsreader, and why her explanation of the outburst was removed from Al Arabiya's website in this post.