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The government says free expression can combat radicalization. Yet a military court recently sentenced a man to 18 months in prison for a Facebook post deemed insulting to the United Arab Emirates.

Airs Wednesdays, January 8 - February 12, 2014 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh was held by the group since his capture in December. Jordan, which had said it was prepared to trade Kaseasbeh for an Iraqi militant, said he was killed Jan. 3, a month ago.

A unique type of neurosurgery offers hope to patients with spinal cord injuries.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Spreads Out Its Awards

Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan draws on her childhood experiences under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. It follows Raami, a young polio survivor, from her idyllic home to the depths of totalitarian exploitation.

For 62 years, Saudi Arabia has been ruled by sons of the founder of the Kingdom, Abdul Aziz. Robert Siegel talks to Middle East specialist Joseph Braude about Saudi succession.

King Salman, 79, presided over the dramatic transformation of Riyadh with a record for good governance, but he is not viewed as a reformer and is unlikely to change the course of Saudi politics.

Deborah Kerr, who shared one of Hollywood's most famous kisses while portraying an Army officer's unhappy wife in From Here to Eternity and danced with the Siamese monarch in The King and I has died. Kerr, 86, suffered from Parkinson's disease.

More than ever before, Saudis are demanding political reform. They are unlikely to march in the streets, but a political scientist says the king's announcement of new unemployment and housing benefits probably won't be enough.