Saudi Women Driving

Saudi Religious Police Clamp Down on Rural Women Drivers

Sabria Jawhar | Posted 10.15.2009 | World


Sabria Jawhar

Perhaps one of the most misunderstood aspects of Saudi society in the non-Arab world is the myth that all Saudi women are banned from driving cars.

Saudi Women Boycott Lingerie Shops Until They Start Employing Women

AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 04.25.2009 | World


RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Before her wedding last year, Huda Batterjee went abroad to buy her bridal lingerie _ she just couldn't bear the humiliat...

Saudi Clerics Push To Ban Women From The Media

Breitbart | Posted 04.24.2009 | World


Hardline Saudi clerics have called on the government to ban women from appearing on television and to prohibit their images in print media, which they...

Saudi Women Driving Ban Affects Men Too

GlobalPost | Caryle Murphy | Posted 04.02.2009 | World


RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- It's 5 p.m. on a weekend and Faisal Auda is at the wheel of his 2005 bright green Chevy Optra. Two of his five sisters are i...

Saudi Princess Says She's Ready To Drive

Daily Mail | Posted 03.12.2009 | World


The wife of one of Saudi Arabia's richest men says she is ready to get behind the wheel as soon as the ban on women drivers is lifted. Princess Amira...

Saudi Women Petition For Right To Drive

Washington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


For the first time since a demonstration in 1990, a group of Saudi women is campaigning for the right to drive in this conservative kingdom, the only ...