Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Singers perform at a Soundstorm music festival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Tasneem Alsultan / For The Times) Standing in a maelstrom ...

In Saudi Arabia, dancing to the Macarena in a crosswalk can apparently land you in police custody. Authorities in the kingdom questioned a teenage boy after he was seen dancing to the 1990s song in a ...

When yoga instructor Nada took up pole dancing, the backlash in deeply conservative Saudi Arabia was both harsh and quick, and she has struggled to overcome the fallout ever since. Family and friends ...

Saudi Arabia is currently undergoing profound social change, following the progressive lifting of restrictions since the late 2010s. The film “Dancing on Fire,” currently in development, directed by ...

CAIRO — The concert seemed like it would be another adventurous step for ultraconservative Saudi Arabia: a pop star famous for lively love songs performing in a kingdom where, until recently, public ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Rarely does a Saudi citizen publicly criticize the country’s religious ...

Standing in a maelstrom of swirling smoke and spotlights, Nouf Sufyani, the 29-year-old Saudi DJ better known as Cosmicat, sang along to Fatboy Slim’s “Right Here, Right Now.” She looped a snippet of ...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Standing in a maelstrom of swirling smoke and spotlights, Nouf Sufyani, the 29-year-old Saudi DJ better known as Cosmicat, sang along to Fatboy Slim’s “Right Here, Right Now.” ...