Sunday, February 5, 2012 – 19:26
The campaign for women driving has slowed down almost to a halt since the big push last June, but the issue is now making a comeback as activists seek a different route. On Saturday, two women filed lawsuits against the government for refusing to issue them driver’s licenses and banning them from driving a car. [...]
Friday, January 6, 2012 – 1:11
For some reason, the government here finds itself compelled to get involved in organizing cultural events even when they suck at it. Why? Maybe because they don’t allow non-governmental organizations that usually play such roles in other countries. Or maybe because they want to keep the matters of arts and culture under control. Anyway, they [...]
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Tagged abdo khal, abdul aziz khoja, al-watan, hair, intellectual forum, marriott lobby, saleh al-shehi, saudi intellectual forum
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Monday, September 26, 2011 – 21:56
Yes, you read that headline right. Saudi women will be allowed to vote and run in the next municipal elections. They will also be appointed to the Shoura Council in its next term. As I said on Twitter yesterday, this is big news for women in Saudi Arabia any way you look at it. You [...]
Sunday, August 28, 2011 – 6:00
As many people pointed out before, most of the US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks are boring. In the this huge pile of documents, shocking discoveries are rare. Today, I will continue what I began yesterday by looking into the some of the interesting cables from the US mission to Saudi Arabia. Some of the [...]
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Tagged animals, book fair, dogs, julian assange, pets, us embassy, wikileaks
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Saturday, August 27, 2011 – 19:06
Thanks to hurricane Irene, I’m stuck at home for most of the weekend. So I thought I could use the time to go through the latest dump of US diplomatic cables about Saudi Arabia that was released yesterday. One cable from January 2006 focuses on the cultural and sports programming by the US mission to [...]
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 – 13:55
It is rather sad that at a time when peoples are toppling dictators and changing regimes, we are still stuck talking about women driving, underage marriage and the right of prisoners to get a speedy, fair trial. I’m not saying these issues are unimportant, but let’s face it: their importance pales quickly when compared to [...]
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Tagged #alrayes, hani aldhaheri, hashtag, new activism, saud alrayes, twitter
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Sunday, July 3, 2011 – 16:18
The Guardian sent their south Asia correspondent Jason Burke to Saudi Arabia for a special series on the country. While I think the overall reporting of the series leaves something to be desired, it was the third part of the series that made the headlines locally. Sheikh Saad al-Shethri (remember him?) said he intends to [...]
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Tagged contraceptives, fertility, guardian, prayer, shethri, women driving
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Monday, June 20, 2011 – 23:00
Saudi women did drive on June 17. More than 50 of them drove, and the day went by peacefully for the most part. Check out my post for NPR’s Two-way blog to read more and hear from some of the women who got behind the wheel and defied the ban. I somehow made Foreign Policy’s [...]
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Tagged #women2drive, ebtihal mubarak, foreign policy, twitter, women driving
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Monday, June 13, 2011 – 2:09
Photographer Reem Al Faisal mocks the ban on women driving in Arab News by calling women to start riding… camels. “OK, we give up and allow the men to drive cars and allow us what was never denied our grandmothers – camels. Let every household own as many camels as they wish or can afford. [...]
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Tagged 3al6ayer, fahad albutairi, la yekthar, NPR, nyt, omar hussain, women driving
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Friday, June 3, 2011 – 2:07
Manal al-Sharif has been released on Tuesday. After her release, she released a statement in which announced that she will no longer be involved with the women’s driving campaign that is scheduled for June 17. The campaign, however, is still on track according a statement published on Facebook. Meanwhile, the Shoura Council said the they [...]
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Tagged alcohol, dui, islamists, lacroix, manal al-sharif, sahwa, women driving
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