Until recently you would never have seen women presenting television programmes dressed from head to toe in the niqab or burqa. But on the Saudi relig...
The National Newspaper | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
In a bustling harbour just north of Jeddah one recent morning, a white 27-metre diving yacht was nosing its way slowly toward the open Red Sea. It was...
Sabria Jawhar | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
Saudi businesswomen carry tremendous influence in the Kingdom despite the disadvantages they face.
cnn.com | Mohammed Jamjoom and Tricia Escobedo | Posted 08.10.2009 | World
(CNN) -- Wajeha al-Huwaider picked up her passport, got in a taxi, and headed from her home in eastern Saudi Arabia to the nearby island kingdom of Ba...
AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Appealing to a powerful Saudi prince, an 8-year-old girl asked why she was not allowed to play sports in school like boys...
Guardian | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
The appointment of Saudi Arabia's first female cabinet minister was seen as a big step for a country where a strict interpretation of Islam bars women...
AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — For the first time in three decades, Saudis in the nation's capital did something that most Westerners take for granted _...
AP | ABDULLAH SHIHRI | Posted 06.12.2009 | World
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi judge told a conference on domestic violence that a man has the right to slap a wife who spends money wastefully ...
AP | ABDULLAH SHIHRI | Posted 06.11.2009 | World
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi judge told a conference on domestic violence that a man has the right to slap a wife who spends money wastefully ...
AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 06.06.2009 | World
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Sukaina al-Zayer is an unlikely beauty queen hopeful. She covers her face and body in black robes and an Islamic veil, so...
Reuters | Posted 05.31.2009 | World
"Let her get fat!" is the slogan women in Saudi Arabia are using to challenge a clampdown on female-only gyms....
AP | HADEEL AL-SHALCHI | Posted 05.31.2009 | World
CAIRO — An 8-year-old Saudi girl has divorced her middle-aged husband after her father forced her to marry him last year in exchange for about $...
Reuters | Posted 05.10.2009 | World
A Saudi man has divorced his wife by text message, a newspaper said on Thursday. The man was in Iraq when he sent the SMS informing her she was no lo...
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...
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...
Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 04.23.2009 | World
She has been called the Saudi Arabian version of 'Oprah', though the TV program she co-hosts, an all-women talk show called 'Kalam Nawa'im' on pan-Arab channel MBC, much more resembles ABC's The View.
AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 04.23.2009 | World
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi human rights groups has strongly criticized the kingdom's religious police, judiciary and security agencies in a ...
GlobalPost | Caryle Murphy | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
RIYADH -- Reem Asaad finds it annoying to buy her bras and panties from a man. But she doesn't have much choice in the matter. Although Saudi Arabi...
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...
AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 10.31.2008 | Style
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia — For years, the only thing sold openly in Saudi stores selling women's cloaks were of the all-black, drab covering variety...
Associated Press | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned a female rape victim who had been sentenced to 200 lashes for being alone with a man at the time of the atta...
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 ...
BBC News | Posted 12.09.2009 | World