Saudi Arabia’s Driven Women
On Monday evening, shortly after the call to Isha prayers had sounded from hundreds of mosques across Riyadh, a half dozen women gathered for a small dinner party—gender-segregated, like most Saudi...
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A women’s revolution has begun in Saudi Arabia, although it may not be immediately evident. This fall, only a few dozen women got behind the wheel to demand the right to drive. Every female Saudi still...
View ArticleA Saudi Woman Is Threatened After Tweeting About Beards
The controversy began—as virtually all political and religious debate in Saudi Arabia does these days—with a provocative tweet. On January 18th, Souad al-Shammary, a liberal activist with more than a...
View ArticleSisters in Law
In September, 2014, Mohra Ferak, twenty-two years old and in her final year at Dar Al-Hekma University, in the Saudi port city of Jeddah, was asked for advice by a woman who had heard that she was...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia’s Driven Women
In response to a request from Prince Khalid bin Bandar, the governor of Riyadh, the October 26th campaigners were drafting a new petition to allow Saudi …
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Katherine Zoepf visits Saudi Arabia’s lingerie stores, and writes about the country’s social shifts as women take jobs as store clerks for the first time.
View ArticleA Saudi Woman Is Threatened After Tweeting About Beards
Can a woman be considered both provocative and reasonable in Saudi Arabia?
View ArticleSaudi Women Realize Their Rights
Katherine Zoepf on Mohra Ferak, Hawa’a’s Rights, and the kingdom’s first generation of female lawyers.
View ArticleWhat Overturning the Ban on Female Drivers Means for Saudi Arabia and the World
Katherine Zoepf on Saudi Arabia’s recent decision to overturn its ban on women driving, and what it signals about the state of the kingdom.
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