Al-Jazirah
IN a royal decree a little more than a month ago, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has stated that women are not required to obtain the consent of a male guardian to receive various services unless there is a legitimate (...)
Al-Jazirah
SAUDI women started taking part in sports as early as the 1960s when they played football, basketball and volleyball. The year 2006 witnessed the opening of the first private sports academy for women in Jeddah. There are 26 women's sports (...)
SINCE Nov. 6, 1990 there have been continuous calls for authorities to allow women driving in Saudi Arabia. But like an object on the chessboard extremists who politicize the issue removed it in order to keep people busy with other issues facing the (...)
If we follow the debates inside Saudi intellectual circles we can see that it is centered on woman's issues as well as the identity crisis of some citizens. Both issues are historically related to the extremist exclusionary ideology.
The first issue (...)
