What is "as-suwaidi"

Al-Suwaidi is a district of the Al-Urayja branch municipality, in southwestern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on the western side of the Wadi Hanifa. It became notorious as a "no go"-area and stronghold of Islamic terrorism in the 2000s.

It is one of Riyadh's "older residential districts", and compared with the standards of Riyadh is overpopulated with outdated infrastructure dating back to the oil boom of the 1970s.

As-Suwaidi (as-Suwaydi, al-Suwaidi, etc.; ) is an Arabic nisbat derived from suwayd (an Arabic name derived from a root s-w-d "black", or from the Arabic name of Sweden).