Sarah Leah Whitson

Sarah Leah Whitson is formerly the executive director of the Middle East and North Africa Division of Human Rights Watch.

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Farmers harvest wheat in a field in Tabuk in April 2016. The province has been tapped for the location of a high-tech megacity called Neom.

Mohammed bin Salman’s Bloody Dream City of Neom
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Saudi Shiite women hold placards with portraits of prominent Shiite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr on January 2, 2016. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Movie Theaters and Women Driving Won’t Placate Saudi Shiites
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Libya’s human rights problem
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How to help Yemen come unstuck
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You’re next–and you know who you are
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