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.

Authorities arrested singer Abdallah Al Shahani for dabbing, a dance move that violates the regulations of the National Committee for Combating Drugs.

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture and Information banned and confiscated books by Egyptian writer Youssef Zeidan from the Riyadh International Book Fair.

A music video entitled ‘Hwages’ featuring a trio of veiled female artists in Saudi Arabia has not only gone viral, but has also divided the country.

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.

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 …