“There’s not just an oil boom in Saudi Arabia - there’s a blogging boom too,”the BBC reports.”It really took off last year,” says Saudi journalist Rasheed Abou-Alsamh. There are now between 500 and 600 Saudi blogs - in English as well as Arabic - and the bloggers are women as well as men. “I think young people see the Internet as a way of expressing themselves easily and in an uncensored fashion,” says Mr Abou-Alsamh”.

Saudi Arabia’s bold young bloggers

“There’s not just an oil boom in Saudi Arabia - there’s a blogging boom too,”the BBC reports.”It really took off last year,” says Saudi journalist Rasheed Abou-Alsamh. There are now between 500 and 600 Saudi blogs - in English as well as Arabic - and the bloggers are women as well as men. “I think [...]