In this 2015 photo, Ensaf Haidar, wife of the jailed Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi, shows a portrait of her husband in France. The arrest of Badawi’s sister is at the heart of a diplomatic spat between Canada and Saudi Arabia that will significantly affect trade between the two countries.
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The diplomatic spat between Canada and Saudi Arabia could have serious economic ramifications as well. When diplomatic ties are cut, research shows trade suffers significantly.
A woman in Saudi Arabia drives to work for the first time in Riyadh.
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Saudi Arabia has arrested a number of feminists, while bringing in reforms for women. An expert argues why this goes to show that the kingdom remains adamant on not opening space for more voices.
Ensaf Haidar stands next to a poster of her husband, jailed blogger Raif Badawi, in Montreal in June 2015. The arrest of Badawi’s sister, Samar, is at the centre of a bitter spat between Canada and Saudi Arabia.
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The ongoing diplomatic spat between Canada and Saudi Arabia will hurt Canada if the kingdom intensifies its aggressive retaliation measures.
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Muhammad bin Salman is set on transforming the oil-rich kingdom into a modern, economically diverse superpower. It won’t be easy.
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It seems likely that football will remain a pawn in an intensifying proxy war.
Ready to roll.
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An economy and society like Saudi Arabia’s cannot survive the modern world without giving in to change.
A Saudi woman in a driving simulator in Riyadh.
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Allowing women to drive could boost the Saudi economy: by bringing more women into the workorce and making men more productive.
Men walk on the wreckage of a building destroyed by air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen, on June 6, 2018.
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Yemen’s civil war is a stew of local and foreign interests, from Washington, Saudi Arabia to Iran. And the latest battle may cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians, if not millions.
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Russia and Saudi Arabia’s new friendship is bad news for Iran.
Qatar out of the picture: Donald Trump meets with Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia at the White House.
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Without strategic clarity from the US, the Saudis and their allies are under little pressure to thaw their frozen relationship with Qatar.
This photo, provided May 10, 2018, by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows Israeli missiles in the sky as others hit air defence positions and other military bases in Damascus, Syria.
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Flashy interceptor systems attract media and government attention. But bomb shelters and warning systems are at least as important in the midst of missile strikes.
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There’s a disturbing disconnect between the polite etiquette of arms fairs and the hell that their products create.
He said he’d do it, and he has.
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Iran is a dangerous mischief-maker in the Middle East – but scrapping the nuclear deal will probably make things worse.
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The connection between oil and arms trade is not a conspiracy theory.
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April 14, 2018
Scott Lucas , University of Birmingham ; Alpaslan Ozerdem , Coventry University ; Balsam Mustafa , University of Birmingham ; Beverley Milton-Edwards , Queen's University Belfast ; Cengiz Gunes , The Open University ; Edward Wastnidge , The Open University ; Moritz Pieper , University of Salford ; Natasha Lindstaedt , University of Essex , and Simon J Smith , Staffordshire University
The Syrian conflict is a war of many sides. Here’s a rundown of the key players.
Canada’s minister of international development, Marie-Claude Bibeau, launches Canada’s new Feminist International Assistance Policy during an event in Ottawa in June 2017. Canada is set to announce a feminist foreign policy soon.
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Sweden has enacted what’s known as a feminist foreign policy, and Canada plans on doing the same. One fly in the ointment is both countries’ arms sales and how they’re at odds with feminism.
Protester mocking President al-Sisi.
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Public disaffection in Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries betrays deep-seated tensions beneath the surface.
Everybody needs good neighbours.
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With Iran and India on manoeuvres and the war in Yemen still unfolding, Pakistan’s stakes in the Middle East are as high as ever.
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Donald Trump doesn’t have one foreign policy – he has several, and they all clash.
The controversial $12-billion sale of light armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia has embroiled Justin Trudeau’s government in controversy. The vehicle in question is shown here at a news conference at a General Dynamics facility in London, Ont., in 2012.
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Canada used to be more careful about selling arms to countries that practised human rights violations. What happened?