“Many [people] are surprised by all the changes happening in Saudi. Seeing me in a car, racing… For a lot of people, it’s a surprise, but I am happy to surprise people.” – Reema Juffali
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, […]
A Kuwaiti game show host is having the worst time with Eid just around the corner as she was fired on a live show she was hosting. According to some reports, Amal Al Awadhi was hosting her show in a white dress on state-run Kuwait Television (KTV1) during which she received tonnes of angry complaints over the […]
In a bid to make life a wee bit shocking for Saudi’s women, the kingdom has now crossed every line and lived up to its gender parity expectation to the fullest. Jina, a Kurdish woman, shared this video on Twitter with the caption, “I’m dying at this fashion show in Saudi, they weren’t allowed, female models”. Watch […]
A Kuwaiti woman television news anchor is paying the price for complimenting a male colleague on air. Basima Al-Shammar called her male colleague “handsome”, after which she was suspended for being “flirtatious”. The anchor’s way of chatting with a male colleague on air was not taken informally. According to media reports, her casual comment was interpreted in […]
In September 2017, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman issued a royal order granting women their right to drive. The ban on women driving will soon be history. However, this hasn’t gone down well with some men. Some have taken to social media to express their dissatisfaction with the change in law. They’ve been using an Arabic hashtag to […]
Saudi Aramco, the Saudi kingdom’s oil giant, on April 29 appointed a woman as a member of its board of directors. This is the first time in the firm that a woman — US-based Lynn Laverty Elsenhans (60) — is included in the panel with four more new appointees. Elsenhans has previously worked as the […]
Amidst the latest cyclone of societal changes in Saudi Arabia, women yet again witnessed a landmark development. For the first time ever, they were allowed to watch men wrestle live in the ring. Photos of women in Saudi Arabia cheering on in a World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.’s Greatest Royal Rumble went viral on Friday. This was the first […]
In a bid to make life a wee bit entertaining for Saudi’s men and women, the kingdom is now set to reopen its first cinema in more than 35 years. The grand opening is on April 18 in capital Riyadh. The cinema will host both men and women, the authorities said this week. A source told Reuters that […]
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