Saudi Arabia is dropping gender rules for restaurant entrances
Saudi Arabia is ending the requirement that restaurants have two separate entrances: one for families and women and another for unaccompanied men.
Saudi Arabia
This archive collects solutions-journalism stories and milestones from Saudi Arabia — covering areas such as renewable energy, public health, urban development, and social policy. Each entry focuses on documented progress and constructive change happening in or connected to the country.
Saudi Arabia planning 2.6 gigawatt solar project near Mecca
Middle Eastern oil giant Saudi Arabia is set to develop a mammoth 2.6 gigawatt (GW) solar park in the Makkah Region, providing enough energy for nearly 2 million homes.
Bids open for first utility-scale wind farm in Saudi Arabia
$500m Dumat Al Jandal wind project forms part of Saudi goal to have 10% renewable energy by 2023.
Saudi Arabia issues driving licences to women for first time in decades
Saudi Arabia has issued driving licences to women for the first time in decades just weeks before a ban on female drivers is lifted.
Saudi Arabia and SoftBank plan $200 billion solar project, the world’s largest
The plan envisions 200GW of solar capacity in Saudi Arabia by 2030. The venture may cost $200 billion and add 100,000 jobs.
Saudi government says it will allow women to drive
Women in Saudi Arabia will be permitted to drive in the kingdom, according to a royal decree issued in Riyadh on Tuesday that overturned one of the most widely criticized restrictions on human rights.
Saudis kick off $50 billion renewable energy plan to cut oil use
Bidders seeking to qualify to build 700 megawatts of wind and solar power plants should submit documents by March 20, and those selected will be announced by April 10, Saudi Arabia’s energy ministry said Monday in an e-mailed statement.
Seven Arab states found the League of Arab States in Cairo
The League of Arab States was founded in Cairo on 22 March 1945, when seven nations signed a charter pledging cooperation while preserving each country’s full sovereignty. Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and North Yemen built a flexible framework of consultation over command. It became one of the world’s earliest regional intergovernmental bodies, now grown to 22 members.
Ibn Saud proclaims the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia after 30 years of unification
Saudi Arabia was formally proclaimed on September 23, 1932, when Ibn Saud renamed his unified territories after three decades of campaigning across the Arabian Peninsula. The journey began in 1902 with a night raid on Riyadh’s Masmak fortress, carried out by roughly 40 men returning from exile in Kuwait. It marked the consolidation of a long-fragmented region into a single modern state.
Muhammad bin Saud and Ibn Abd al-Wahhab found the Emirate of Diriyah
In 1744, in the Najdi town of Diriyah, a ruler and a religious reformer shook hands on a pact that would eventually give rise to Saudi Arabia. Muhammad bin Saud offered shelter and political backing; Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab offered religious legitimacy. From that modest desert compact grew one of the Arab world’s most enduring state-building experiments.