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Saudi woman becomes Kingdom’s first female newspaper editor

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 17, 2014 | Media

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—A Saudi English-language daily newspaper announced on Sunday that it was to become the first in the Kingdom to appoint a female editor-in-chief. The Saudi Gazette’s new chief, Somayya Jabarti, formerly occupied the post of assistant...

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Saudi women arrive to attend the morning Eid al-Fitr prayer at Turki bin Abdullah grand mosque in Riyadh, on August 8, 2013. (AFP)

Opinion: Saudi Women Drivers

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Oct 13, 2013 | Opinion

The recommendation filed by three female members of Saudi Arabia’s Shura Council—Latifa Al-Shaalan, Haya Al-Mani, and Mona Al-Mashit—to lift the ban on women driving in the country must be praised. This was a carefully considered Shura Council recommendation,...

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Saudi women board a taxi in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Opinion: Driving Reform

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Oct 11, 2013 | Opinion

The most significant new development is not the demand to grant Saudi women the right to drive, rather, it is that three women members of the Saudi Shura Council have called for this right. These women are not like some famous activists or bold female writers who...

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Saudi Shura Council Chairman: The View from Riyadh

by Badr Al-Qahtani | Jul 30, 2013 | Interviews

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—In an exclusive interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, Dr. Abdullah ibn Muhammad Al Al-Sheikh, the chairman of the Shura Council (consultative assembly) of Saudi Arabia said that “the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz,...

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A man carries bread on wooden racks to be sold to customers in Cairo, on April 11, 2013. (REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

Egypt–IMF Deal Hopes Fading

by Mahmud El Shafey | Apr 30, 2013 | Business

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt is facing an uncertain economic future after parliament postponed its reading of a vital new income tax law needed to secure a USD 4.8 billion IMF loan. The Egyptian parliament halted the reading of the controversial new income tax law on...