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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 649

Saudi women

Beachgoers play at floating blow-up water park, at Pure Beach in King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia, on September 17, 2021 (Fayez NURELDINE / AFP)
October 16, 2021, 6:08 am
Sun, sea and the opposite sex as Saudi Arabia slowly loosens up
At Pure Beach near Jeddah, there is music, dancing and an inflatable water park, while some women even wear once unthinkable bikinis
By Haitham el-Tabei
Pilgrims walk around the Kabba at the Grand Mosque, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Friday, July 31, 2020. (Saudi Ministry of Media via AP)
August 17, 2020, 6:00 am
Saudi Arabia appoints 10 women to senior roles in holy mosques
Move aimed at boosting female employment in conservative kingdom, part of liberalization drive spearheaded by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
By AFP
A mean leaves the singles entrance at a restaurant in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, December 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
December 8, 2019, 7:47 pm
Saudi restaurants no longer need to segregate women and men
Move is latest government measure to upend a major hallmark of conservative restrictions in place for decades
By Abdullah Al-Shihri and Aya Batrawy
Reema al-Juffali, Saudi Arabia's first female race driver, poses in front of her car during an interview with AFP in Diriyah district in Riyadh on November 20, 2019. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP)
November 23, 2019, 8:39 am
In first, Saudi woman to drive race car in kingdom
Reema Juffali says she never expected to race professionally in Saudi Arabia, which lifted ban on female drivers last year: ‘The fact that I am doing it… is amazing’
By Anuj Chopra
Saudi human resources professional Mashael al-Jaloud, right, walks in Western clothes past women wearing niqabs and abayas, an Islamic dress-code for women, at a commercial area in the Saudi capital Riyadh on September 3, 2019. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP)
November 13, 2019, 12:44 pm
Saudi Arabia backpedals on video labeling feminism ‘extremism’
‘Feminism is not criminalized,’ says kingdom’s Human Rights Commission; retracted video also decried homosexuality and atheism, which are both punishable by death
By AFP
Woman motorsport racer Amjad Al-Amri, featured in the new HBO documentary, 'Saudi Women's Driving School.' (Courtesy HBO)
October 24, 2019, 3:54 am
Film charts how newly licensed Saudi women motorists try to drive social change
Out October 24, HBO documentary ‘Saudi Women’s Driving School’ follows female drivers who maintain cautious optimism even as gender rights activists still sit behind bars
By Jordan Hoffman
An illustrative photo of three Saudi women (screen capture, YouTube)
October 6, 2019, 2:30 pm
Saudi Arabia eases restrictions on women at hotels
New guidelines allow women to rent rooms without male guardian’s presence, and foreign couples to share accommodation without proof of marriage
By Elena Becatoros
A picture taken on January 19, 2018 shows Saudi women clad in the Abaya robes and men walking during the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Rumah, some 160 kilometers east of Riyadh. (AFP Photo/Fayez Nureldine)
August 3, 2019, 11:04 am
Saudi Arabia wins praise, ire as guardianship rules eased
Despite ‘progress,’ system not fully dismantled and longtime women’s rights activists still face travel bans or are on trial after a sweeping crackdown on dissent last year
By Anuj Chopra
Illustrative: Saudi women walk during the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Rumah, some 160 kilometers east of Riyadh, January 19, 2018. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP)
August 2, 2019, 6:42 am
In first, Saudi Arabia allows women to travel without male consent
Easing of guardianship rules marks potential sea change for rights in kingdom, although some restrictions still in effect
By Aya Batrawy
Singer Nicki Minaj performs with members of Little Mix during the European MTV Awards in Bilbao, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
July 10, 2019, 5:33 am
Nicki Minaj cancels Saudi concert over LGBT, women’s rights concerns
Raunchy rapper’s scheduled appearance at Jeddah festival triggered social media backlash over human rights in the ultra-conservative Kingdom
By AFP
Saudi broadcaster Dawood al-Shiryan. (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 5, 2019, 12:35 am
Saudi talk show suspended after critical views aired
Amid wide-spread crackdown on critics, state-run channel drops veteran broadcaster who tackled treatment of women, domestic violence and poverty
By Aya Batrawy
Hala Hussein Alireza, a newly-licensed Saudi motorist, drives a car in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah early on June 24, 2018. (AFP Photo/Amer Hilabi)
March 2, 2019, 9:39 am
Saudi prosecutors say women’s rights activists to face trial
Some of the women detained have reportedly been subjected to caning, electrocution and sexual assault
By Jon Gambrell
Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, front second right, during a visit to the Kaaba shrine at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, February 12, 2019. (Twitter screen capture)
February 13, 2019, 10:13 pm
Saudi crown prince climbs atop Mecca’s Kaaba, angering foes
Mohammed bin Salman criticized at home and abroad by both Islamists and liberals after personally inspecting holy site
By ToI Staff
Mariah Carey poses in the press room at the American Music Awards on October 9, 2018, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
January 31, 2019, 3:32 pm
Mariah Carey shakes off boycott calls for her Saudi concert
Activists say performance a diversion from Yemen war and attempt by kingdom to rehabilitate tarnished image after Khashoggi killing
By Aya Batrawy
These two undated photos provided by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) show sisters Rotana, left, and Tala Farea, whose fully clothed bodies, bound together with tape and facing each other, were discovered on on the banks of New York City's Hudson River waterfront on Oct. 24, 2018. (NYPD via AP)
January 23, 2019, 6:20 am
NY medical examiner says two drowned Saudi sisters committed suicide
Rotana Farea, 22, and her sister Tala, 16, were found beside the Hudson River in late October, tied together at the ankles and waist by duct tape
By AFP
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