The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in Western Asia, takes up most of the Arabian Peninsula. It shares borders with Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates. It has as its capital the city of Riyadh, and the official language is Arabic.
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Maintained by a former United States foreign service officer who was in Saudi Arabia for two tours, this weblog seeks to comment about the Kingdom, from neither an apologist or a basher.
http://xrdarabia.org/
This weblog started in 2006 as a diary of Korean life. Since then, it has expanded its topics to include all sorts of other items. The blogger was born in Korea but adopted to Australian parents at age two, so he left the country for many years. He moved back to Seoul and ow conducts research in ovarian cancer at Seoul National University.
http://leeskoreablog.blogspot.com/
The owner of this blog is a young man from Saudi Arabia graduated from Columbia University's School of Broadcasting and now works at NPR. He shares news, personal views, and commentary about social and political issues in his home country and focuses particularly on human rights, women's rights, and freedom of expression.
http://saudijeans.org/
A mother of three children and a postgraduate student in Riyadh keeps this blog current. She writes at length about being a woman in the Kingdom as well as other points of interest about being in Arabia.
http://saudiwoman.me/
This serves as the journal of a Saudi man who now lives in the United Kingdom where he says that the "religious police" no longer trouble him. He seeks to report on the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice and does so frequently.
http://muttawa.blogspot.com/
