RIYADH, Saudi Arabia --A new era is underway in Saudi Arabia; newly-empowered women got behind the wheel at the stroke of midnight on Sunday as the world's last ban on female drivers ended. It was an ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Inside the official Saudi Driving School, there was a flurry of activity and excitement. Dozens of women -- most are young, but with a smattering of middle-aged ladies mixed in ...

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Two women’s-rights campaigners from Saudi Arabia, who were detained for defying a ban on female driving, have been released after spending two months in prison, a fellow activist said on Friday.

The campaign for women to drive is a rare show of defiance in the kingdom Activists are urging women in the ultraconservative kingdom to defy a ban on getting behind the wheel Police warned that ...

The end of a decades-old female driving ban is expected to bring an economic windfall for millions of Saudi women, making it easier for them to work and do business. Taghreed Ghazala, who owns a chain ...

BURAIDAH, Saudi Arabia—The lifting of the female driving ban marked an extraordinary moment for this kingdom and showed how social overhauls are seeping into even the most conservative pockets here as ...

In 2001, Nayrouz Talaat figured it was time she learned to drive. The Cairo-based journalist was, after all, 20 at the time. But as she explored driving schools, she found only male instructors — ...

In an extraordinary display of civil disobedience, women in Saudi Arabia on Saturday defied their nation’s de facto ban on women driving by getting behind the steering wheel. After a campaign for ...