VOL. XLVII

No 14

05-April-2004

Arab Press Review

Saudi Reform Problems

(MEES Translation)

The following article is a report of a talk given by Mai Yamani, a Saudi anthropologist and a research fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London at Chatham House. The article was published in the daily al-Quds al-Arabi on 24 March.

Mai Yamani said that the campaign of arrests carried out by the Saudi authorities against the reformist and liberal movement was connected to...