ART UNDER THREAT IN 2016: WHAT DROVE VIOLATIONS The following section of the Art under Threat in 2016 report explores the issues and tendencies that drove governments and other groups to limit artistic expression. TABLE OF CONTENTS * Click on the following titles to be taken to that part of …

Governor of Mecca Prince Khaled bin Faisal ordered authorities to arrest a female rapper, Asayel Slay for releasing the rap song Mecca Girl.

Three theatre performers were stabbed on stage during a live show in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.

Freemuse registered 469 cases of censorship and attacks on artists and violations of their rights in 2015, making it our worst recorded year yet.

This podcast by Big Hass, founder & host of Laish Hip Hop – Saudi’s First FM Hip Hop Radio Show, explores the current conditions for Saudi women artists.

A Saudi woman has lost a two-year legal battle to marry a man who her family says is "religiously incompatible" with her because he plays the lute.

US rapper Nelly and Algerian singer Cheb Khaled are set to perform a concert in Jeddah to an only male audience, a move that has drawn mixed reactions.

Saudi artists use their craft to challenge society and resist political pressure to create a space for dialogue and change to define a new identity.

Ministry of Culture and Information pulled Dr Badria al-Bishr’s novel “Thursday’s Visitors” from bookstores after some called its passages pornographic.

After an absence of more than three decades, music and female singers’ voices returned to Saudi Arabia's official cultural TV channel.