A 26-year-old Saudi Arabian woman, Reema Al Juffali, has broken the glass-ceiling by becoming the first woman from the country to take part in competitive racing. The kingdom gave women the legal rights to drive only in June last year. Three months after the ban was lifted, Reema became the first Saudi woman to earn a racer’s licence. […]

On June 24, Saudi Arabia had announced that women are legally allowed to drive. Just a week later, on July 3, a woman’s car was set on fire by men who are opposing the new rule of allowing women to drive, Gulf News reported. The woman whose car was damaged is Salma al-Sherif, a 31-year-old cashier based near the city of Mecca, […]