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  • Elections in Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia announces date for first female local elections

    The late King Abdullah announced last year women would be allowed to participate in politics at a local level for the first time.

  • Municipal Elections
    Saudi Arabia announces date for first female local elections

    Saudi authorities have set the date for the first election to include female candidates and voters for December 12, Arab News reported.

  • Women in the Middle East
    What’s It Like to Be a Female Journalist in the Middle East?

    Ruby-red fireworks tore through Cairo's sky and victorious chants pierced through Egypt's famed Tahrir Square on the night of Feb. 11, 2011. A sense of euphoria, of endless possibility, hung in the air. After weeks of heady, deadly protests, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak had finally resigned. And as a journalist, I was blessed with a front-row seat to history being made.

  • Saudi Society
    Video: Saudi Arabia’s first female director on the power of film

    “People recognise the power of what film can do. I want to move beyond intolerance and everything I’ve been told since I was little, and shape the consciousness of people and how they think and feel,” says Haifaa al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia’s first female film director.

  • Women and the Workforce
    First Saudi IBM healthcare exec talks female employment

    The first IBM Saudi female industry executive says she wants more Saudi women to take the lead in breaking social ceilings. Dubai-based Summer Nasief tells Al Arabiya News of how she became head of the healthcare and life-sciences industry for the blue-chip company, where she worked for 14 years.

  • ISIS and Social Media
    Islamic State’s female jihadists use social media to lure women recruits

    Jihadist women are using social media to recruit other women for the Islamic State’s declared “caliphate.” The practice is not a new phenomenon. Western females who have migrated to the Islamic State have used various online platforms to lure young women into jihad in Syria. These recruiters hail from a variety of Western countries, including Norway, Canada, the United Kingdom, Austria, France, the Netherlands, and the US.

  • Afghanistan
    The unlikely life of Afghanistan’s first female taxi driver

    Every day, she plies her trade in a business ruled by conservative men. She endures condescending looks, outright jeers, even threats to her life. Most men will not enter her taxi, believing that women should never drive for a man.

  • Entrepreneurship
    From KSA to the Arab World: Hadafi funds and mentors female entrepreneurs

    In a society where women are still economically marginalized and absent from the labor market, technology entrepreneurship is emerging as a solution that saves them from overlapping responsibilities that hinder their productivity as effective actors in society. Moms busy taking care of their homes and kids are now able to run a whole business online from the comfort of their home. However, despite all these facilities, entrepreneurship still lacks an effective feminine presence. According to a study carried out by Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), most markets are still masculine.

  • Art and Culture
    Q&A: Saudi’s first female film-maker on the power of art

    Haifaa al-Mansour is Saudi Arabia’s first female film director, a double challenge in a country where film is still a very new medium and women face many restrictions in daily life. But al-Mansour sees signs of change in the conservative kingdom. Here she shares her views on women’s rights, the power of art, and her award-winning debut film, “Wadjda“, about a schoolgirl who wants to ride a bike.

  • Women Driving
    Women Who Violated Saudi Arabia Ban On Female Driving May Face Charges

    Two women have been held in a Saudi prison for nearly one month for trying to break the ban on female drivers have been referred to a court on terrorism charges.