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  • Saudi women DJs go from hobbyists to headliners

    Naif and her peers embody two major reforms championed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler: new opportunities for women and expanding entertainment options –- notably music, which was once discouraged under Wahabism, a rigid Sunni version of Islam. The possibility that DJs would be welcomed at public events, let alone that many would be women, is something "we didn't expect" until recently, said Mohammed Nassar, a Saudi DJ known as Vinyl Mode.

  • Ramla Ali-Crystal Garcia Nova bout will be first professional women’s boxing match held in Saudi Arabia

    Ramla Ali will make history next month when she faces Crystal Garcia Nova as part of the first professional women's boxing match in Saudi Arabia on the undercard of the Anthony Joshua-Oleksandr Usyk heavyweight title fight in Jeddah on Aug. 20. It's another first for Ali, a Muslim woman born in Somalia and raised in London, as she has continues her boxing career.

  • Saudi Arabia Elevates Two Women to Senior Roles in Government

    Saudi Arabia has appointed two women to senior positions in government, the latest sign that the kingdom is looking to diversify a predominantly male workforce. Shihana Alazzaz has been named the first female Deputy Secretary General of the Saudi Cabinet, according to a royal decree issued on Sunday. Alazzaz was one of the first women licensed to practice law in Saudi Arabia and joins from the Public Investment Fund, where she was general counsel.

  • Saudi all-women SHERO Rally Team gears up for Italian Baja, aims for Dakar 2023

    De Simone founded SHERO, a portmanteau of “She” and “Hero”, in 2020; hailing from Italy and an alumna of Stanford University and Harvard Business School Executive Education, she previously worked as a physical education teacher and the sports director for King’s College Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. She signed Dania Akeel and Mashael Alobaidan as the team’s first members and project managers. After a delayed start due to COVID-19, the programme formally launched in December 2020 with the goal of running the 2022 Dakar Rally, though its timetable was later pushed back a year.

  • Short hair, don’t care: Saudi working women embrace cropped locks

    When Saudi doctor Safi took a new job at a hospital in the capital, she decided to offset her standard white lab coat with a look she once would have considered dramatic. Walking into a Riyadh salon, she ordered the hairdresser to chop her long, wavy locks all the way up to her neck, a style increasingly in vogue among working women in the conservative kingdom.

  • Saudi Tourism Ministry Launches Global Program to Train 100,000 Young Men, Women

    The Ministry of Tourism has selected the highest-rated institutes and educational institutions in the world based on their academic capabilities in the field of tourism and training, such as the Les Roches Marbella, Spain, Global Hospitality Education; SHMS Swiss Hotel Management School; Glion Institute of Higher Education; Cesar Ritz Colleges; Montreal Institute; ESSEC Business School; Ecole Hoteliere in Lausanne; European School of Economics (ESE); NSW Technical and Further Education, and Business and Hotel Management School (BHMS), Switzerland. Selected applicants to join the program will benefit from comprehensive training courses that will enable them to secure employment opportunities in the leading hospitality companies in the Kingdom.

  • Entrepreneurial bootcamp empowers Saudi women

    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) announced the completion of a bootcamp that welcomed 45 Saudi-based female founders as part of the “Empowering Saudi Women Through Entrepreneurship" program. The Saudi-first program has been developed in partnership with the University of Texas at Austin’s Global Innovation Lab (GIL), a unit of Texas Global, and the U.S. Consulate General Jeddah. It aims to build the capabilities of female entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia and the entrepreneurial ecosystem while expanding access to domestic and global markets.

  • Saudi women move from behind wheel to under the hood

    Petromin vice president Tariq Javed said his company was "confident that this initiative will encourage more women to join the automotive industry in all stages". The company says its training covers "all express services, including oil, battery, tyres, A/C, and other automotive requirements".

  • Saudi women graduates outnumber men in job-training programmes

    Female Saudi graduates have significantly outnumbered Saudi men in the national on-the-job training programme launched by the Human Resources Development Fund (Hadaf). Hadaf said 74 per cent of 61,000 participants – who have benefited from Tamheer, a three to six-month on-the-job training scheme for Saudi graduates, since its launch in 2017 – were female.

  • Saudi women transforming family businesses can inspire others – KPMG report

    A report by advisory firm KPMG says Saudi women in leadership roles in family businesses act as good role models to get more women into C-suite roles. “More women entering leadership positions at family businesses normalises the idea of having women in C-suite roles,” said Kholoud Mousa, Partner and Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Equity at KPMG Professional Services.