Saudi Arabia's monarch may have opened the door for Saudi women like Shahd to start driving, but she still needs to sneak out of the house to take lessons. The 26-year-old business student knows she's ...

Women will be able drive in Saudi Arabia from next year, it’s been confirmed. Saudi King Salman issued a decree on Tuesday ordering that women be allowed on the roads, state media reported. The ...

Pioneering Saudi Arabian filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour has come a long way since secretly directing her 2012 drama “Wadjda,” ...

Saudi Arabia has allowed adult women to travel without permission and granted them more control over family matters, further eroding a heavily criticized male guardianship system at a time of ...

Saudi Arabia published new laws early Friday that loosen restrictions on women by allowing any citizen to apply for a passport and travel freely, ending a long-standing guardianship policy that gave ...

Saudi women are in the driver’s seat for the first time in their country and steering their way through busy city streets just minutes after the world’s last remaining ban on women driving was lifted ...

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Egyptian tennis pro Mayar Sherif does not pretend to be an expert on the subject of Saudi Arabia’s record on women’s rights, other than to say: “I know it’s not the best.” ...

While change is happening, institutionalizing it may take longer. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- I was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for the second time in six months and could feel the change between my visits ...

Loujain al-Hathloul, a University of B.C. graduate and a Saudi women’s rights activist, has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison. On Monday, her sister Lina shared that Al-Hathloul had been ...

Women will be allowed to drive for the first time next summer in Saudi Arabia, the ultra-conservative kingdom announced Tuesday, marking a significant expansion of women's rights in the only country ...