Saudi Women Given Some Freedoms
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Women in Saudi Arabia can now stay in a hotel or a furnished apartment without a male guardian, according to a government decision
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LOS ANGELES -- Amana Siddiqi loved swimming as a child but gave it up as a teenager because her Muslim faith required she fully cover her body in public.
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Women in this conservative oil-rich emirate voted in parliamentary elections for the first time Thursday, a vote that also inspired surprisingly vocal calls for reform and criticism of the ruling family.
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 17 -- Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned a gang-rape victim whose sentencing to 200 lashes and half a year in prison caused an international outcry and angered many Saudis.
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STATE DEPARTMENT The State Department is including Saudi Arabia for the first time on its list of countries that could be subject to sanctions for violations of religious freedom.
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For the first time ever, a group of women in the only country that bans female drivers have formed a committee to lobby for the right to get behind the wheel, and they plan to petition King Abdullah in the next few days for the privilege.
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Nadia Bakhurji is no stranger to  challenging the norms in Saudi Arabia's patriarchal society and  next year she hopes to embark on the battle of a lifetime.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned a female rape victim who had been sentenced to 200 lashes for being alone with a man at the time of the attack who was not related to her, a Saudi newspaper reported Monday.
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In a tradition-bound nation, women are emerging as an economic and political force unheard of in the rest of the Arab world.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#151; Saudi women still can't drive cars, but they can sell them. Potential buyers can go to an all-women showroom where, for the first time, other women will help them choose a car and answer questions about horsepower, carburetors and other automotive features.
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Women may neither vote nor run in Saudi Arabia's first nationwide elections, the government announced Monday, dashing hopes of progressive Saudis and easing fears among conservatives that the kingdom is moving too fast on reforms.
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Afghan women find economic freedom, dietary benefits in vegetable crops.
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WASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia has failed to take substantial steps to promote religious tolerance, despite assurances from the Bush administration that the kingdom has made progress on reform, a US watchdog group said yesterday. A report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom called for new congressional scrutiny of Saudi Arabia's progress in implementing religious reform policies announced in ...
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Two Indonesian women held hostage for several days by militants in Iraq have been freed. The two women were handed over to the United Arab Emirates embassy in Baghdad on Monday.
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Seven Saudis released from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay returned home on Wednesday and were promptly detained to see if they had terrorist connections, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
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Despite a campaign urging residents to register before Thursday's deadline, Saudi men &#151; women are barred from voting &#151; have shown little enthusiasm for the first nationwide elections in a kingdom long regarded as autocratic, secretive and resistant to reform.
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As a devout Muslim, Celal Hasnalcaci believes women should cover their hair and dress modestly, as the Koran teaches. As