Women at the Wheel
This Special Section provides an index to articles, interviews, special reports and other materials related to the campaign among some Saudi women for the right to drive in the Kingdom.
On SUSRIS:
- Friday Drivers: Women Take to the Roads – SUSRIS – June 18, 2011
- Will Women in Saudi Arabia Finally Earn Driving Privileges? – Elizabeth Pfiester – SUSRISblog – June 16, 2011
- Saudi woman campaigns for right to drive – Al Jazeera – May 24, 2011
Other Reporting:
- Freed Saudi woman driver vows to continue campaig – BBC News – July 21, 2011
- Five women detained for driving in Jeddah – Gulf News – June 30, 2011
- Saudi women turn to social media for the right to drive – BBC News – June 27, 2011
- Women Driving and Reform in Saudi Arabia – Council on Foreign Relations – June 27, 2011
- Women’s driving protest may signal changes in Saudi Arabia – The Washington Post – June 24, 2011
- Hillary Clinton backs Saudi Arabia women’s right-to-drive campaign – The Guardian – June 21, 2011
- Driving toward equality for Saudi women – Washington Post – June 20, 2011
- Billionaire Alwaleed’s Wife Speaks Out On Saudi Women’s Right To Drive – Forbes – June 20, 2011
- Saudi Arabia’s Freedom Riders – New York Times – June 12, 2011
- Saudi women take to their cars hoping for change – Reuters – June 9, 2011
- Woman driver apologizes to traffic police – Arab News – June 5, 2011
- To drive or not to drive? That is the question – Asharq Alawsat – June 3, 2011
- A Saudi Activist, in Her Own Words – New York Times – May 31, 2011
- The day an emergency almost drove me to defy Saudi ban – The National – May 26, 2011
- Saudi Arabia: Don’t politicize the issue of women driving – Al Arabiya – May 26, 2011
- YouTube Saudi woman driver faces further 10-day jail term – The Guardian – May 26, 2011
- More Saudi Women Record Driving Vidoes – New York Times – May 26, 2011
- Saudi Woman Defies Ban On Driving While Female – NPR – May 24, 2011
- Saudi macho-male Facebook effort to deter women from driving as women wage another campaign to get behind the wheel – Al Arabiya – May 24, 2011
- Another woman driver briefly detained in Qassim – Saudi Gazette – May 24, 2011
- Detained Saudi woman driver appeals for bail – Saudi Gazette – May 24, 2011
- Saudi Arabia: Arrest of female driver sparks debate – Asharq Alawsat – May 24, 2011
- Let women drive … get over your fear of the unknown – Arab News – May 24, 2011
- Saudi Woman’s Driving Video Preserved Online – New York Times – May 24, 2011
- Saudi woman drives, goes to jail – Christian Science Monitor – May 23, 2011
- SAUDI ARABIA: Security forces clamp down on those allegedly behind campaign to defy ban on women drivers – Los Angeles Times – May 23, 2011
- Saudi Arabia criticized after detaining woman for driving – Saudi News Today – May 22, 2011
- Saudi woman seeks to put women in the driving seat – BBC – May 18, 2011
- Saudi mother who defied female driving ban for four days (and is offering lessons to other women) – Daily Mail – May 16, 2011
- Saudi women planning ‘drive-in’ – Seattle Times – May 14, 2011
- A Year Later, a Saudi Woman Still Waits to Drive Legally – New York Times – March 12, 2009











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