MUST-READS

• Saudi Arabia appoints three female cultural attachés for first time

  Saudi Arabia has appointed six cultural attaches, three of which are women, marking the first time women have been named to the diplomatic post, the Saudi Gazette reported on Sunday. The Kingdom’s Minister of Education Dr. Hamd al-Sheikh appointed Dr. Amal Fatani as the Saudi Arabian cultural attaché to the United Kingdom, Dr. Fahdah al-Sheikh as the Kingdom’s representative in Ireland and Dr. Youssra al-Jazairi as the acting cultural attaché in Morocco.

  • Arab News - Saudi education minister appoints first women cultural attaches
• Saudi Arabia appoints first female president as head of co-ed university

  The female president al-Safadi will be heading the Saudi Electronic University this fall, a public educational structure in the capital city that grants undergraduate/graduate degrees.

• ‘I never viewed myself as that’: Why Cosmicat wants to stop the idea she was Saudi Arabia’s first female DJ

  Performing under the name Cosmicat, Nouf Sufyani was the only female Saudi DJ on the decks and delivered an immersive set of deep and tech-house originals and remixes.

• Saudi female employees resume work in malls amid strict health precautionary measures

  Saudi female employees have resumed work since Wednesday in the malls in all regions of the Kingdom. Shoppers, including citizens and expatriates, have begun flocking to the malls to purchase their needs, amid high standard measures set up by owners of these malls to protect shoppers’ health.

• Saudi Arabia’s First Female Film Director Haifaa al-Mansour Discusses ‘The Perfect Candidate’

  Although she now lives in the suburbs of Los Angeles with her husband, Brad Niemann (a diplomat and now al-Mansour’s co-writer) and their two children, her current film The Perfect Candidate (2019) sees her return to a much-changed Saudi Arabia, telling the story of a doctor, whose daily dealings with misogyny see her running for local council.

• Haifaa Al Mansour, first Saudi female filmmaker, talks about “going her own way”

  “I really wanted to tell a story about a culturally conservative, traditional woman who decides to embrace the changes happening now and go out there and seize the moment,” says Haifaa Al Mansour, the first female filmmaker from Saudi Arabia, is a force to be reckoned with. Despite criticism, she tells EW why it’s crucial to march to the beat of her own drum.

• Don’t Miss The Perfect Candidate, A Compelling Film By Saudi Arabia’s First Female Director To Be Released Digitally 27 March 2020

  After a recent preview screening of The Perfect Candidate in London, Haifaa Al Mansour said that she feels “that the best way to show a Western audience what Saudi society is like is to bring an intimate detail of the culture. It’s almost like a making a documentary. You go to a house that’s already there, you change things a little bit here and there and you tell the actors to be natural, who they are.”

• Meet the first female filmmaker in Saudi Arabia: Haifaa al-Mansour

  This time was different – we could work in the streets. Though sometimes, in very conservative neighbourhoods, we didn’t want to attract attention. There were some people who tried to stop us; they wanted to kick us out. We called the police and the police told them, “You cannot stop them. They’re here and you have to respect that.” It’s something that never happened before.

• Wusool: Inside Saudi Arabia’s Female Only Work Commute

  The system requires women to enroll themselves in the program, and the employee “should be registered for less than 36 months under the  General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) and her monthly salary should not exceed SR8,000 ($2,132).”

• First female Saudi Arabian ambassador visits Wyoming

  I don’t think it’s percolated out, but a woman in the kingdom not only can drive herself to work, she can have any job that she wants. She has equal pay, which is something in many places in the rest of the world is not a true statement. For us, we have equal pay today. By law, maternity leaves are guaranteed. Women no longer need anybody’s permission, neither to travel, to go to the hospital when guardianship law abolished and that’s massive. ...

• 10 of 257 results<< 1 … 11 12 13 … 26 >>