Saudi intellectuals preceded their Arab counterparts in submitting a number of collective demands to their government to effect political reform. The Saudi culture faces two main streams of thought: the reformist stream and the conservative stream, both cutting across the intellectuals and the Saudi administration.
A study written by the Saudi media figure Abdel Aziz Al-Khamis, former editor of Al-Magala magazine, which is issued from the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat institution, shows how complex the economic and political reform issue is and how society should deal with the issue with seriousness and tolerance.