Reformers Seek Arab Spring in Oil Dictatorship as Revolutions Take Down Allies But Reforms Proceed Slowly in Saudi Arabia’s powerful dictatorship

In Saudi Arabia, a quiet tide of reform

The Christian Science Monitor

By Christa Case Bryant, Staff writer posted May 30, 2012 at 2:26 pm EDT Riyadh and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia When Mohammad al-Qahtani moved back to his native Saudi Arabia after a decade in the United States, his 3-year-old daughter, Norah, was not pleased. “Daddy, let’s go home,” she said at the time slowly in Saudi Arabia.