Lama Al Sulaiman is counting down the days until June 24, the day when she can finally get behind the wheel. The vice chair of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce & Industry in Saudi Arabia, who has long ...

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

This week, a woman in Saudi Arabia was arrested after a Snapchat video showed her violating the country's strict, conservative dress code. The country's modesty laws require women to wear long, black ...

Freedom House ranks Saudi Arabia as 10th worst on political and civil rights. — -- While President Trump is busy today in Saudi Arabia with bilateral meetings and summit events, first lady ...

Since Sundip Patel began expanding his business in Saudi Arabia three years ago, he says there’s been “astounding” growth in the kingdom structurally and socially. As the cofounder and CEO of Avana ...

Saudi Arabia's royal-appointed advisory council recommended to the government for the first time that the kingdom's blanket ban on women driving be lifted, but with conditions: Only women over 30 will ...

How oppressed are women in Saudi Arabia? Well, the World Economic Forum ranked Saudi Arabia near the bottom in its 2015 Global Gender Gap Index, with the country falling at 134 out of 145 countries.

Three years ago, I travelled from western Saudi Arabia to Al-Khobar, in the country's wealthy Eastern Province, to interview some oilmen. Al-Khobar and the sprawling city next to it, Dhahran, lie next ...

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 ...

Saudi Arabia has announced that it will let women drive. The move comes after decades of campaigning from human rights groups. The kingdom, which has a history of oppressive laws against women, made ...

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 ...