Saudi Arabia Archives – The Oxford Student

The place of law in humanitarian activism: UK-Saudi arms trade

15th June 201915th November 2020Basten Heutink

Image description: CAAT campaigners protest against Farnborough International arms fair, 2016 On the 2nd of October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi got assassinated by Saudi Arabian agents in Istanbul. This assassination has led to a rampant increase in scrutiny of the UK’s continued sale of armaments and military equipment to Saudi Arabia. With the pressure upon the […]

Saudi Arabia’s shifting religious policy: why you should care

16th November 201725th September 2018DK Bose

There was a time – the early 2000s to be exact – when the fact that the only country the State of Qatar shared a land border with was Saudi Arabia, was a cause for amusement not consternation. Although the tiny peninsular nation could not compare – yet – to the lavish spread that life […]

The Problem with Saudi Arabia and its executions

15th January 2016Shahryar Iravani

The execution of Nimr Al-Nimr, a Shia sheikh and political dissenter who called for free elections in Saudi Arabia and for better treatment of the oppressed Shia minority in the kingdom represents the same violent repression of ideological diversity as the beheadings enacted by the Islamic State. Both the Islamic State and the House of […]