Passengers must include ‘mature Saudi woman’, said Public Transport Authority
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Steering a new course in Saudi Arabia
With the first female drivers taking to the roads in Saudi Arabia, Arabian Business looks at the range of opportunities that the law change will open up
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Opinion: What next after driving for Saudi women?
The only way is forward for Saudi women, but it is only through more male support that they can truly triumph over enduring restrictions
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Video: The social and economic impact of Saudi lifting the driving ban
Perhaps the most striking image from Saudi Arabia’s historic lifting of the women’s driving ban is not that of female motorists taking the wheel, but of them accepting decorative pink roses handed to them by police officers in Riyadh’s early morning hours.
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Saudi Arabia said to see only tiny GDP boost from lifting of driving ban
Major social reform will likely boost Saudi Arabia’s potential GDP growth by just 0.1% a year, says report
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Twitter reacts positively to lifting of Saudi women driving ban
Analysis of 20,000 Arabic tweets from Saudi Arabia and the UAE reveal largely positive sentiment
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Saudi woman’s car set ablaze after driving ban lifted
Saudi police are hunting for arsonists who torched the car, only a week after the kingdom lifted a decades-long ban on female motorists
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Saudi woman activist arrested in widening crackdown
Hatoon al-Fassi’s detention follows a wave of arrests of women campaigners who long challenged the driving ban
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Saudi’s Princess Reema heralds economic benefits of female independence
Speaking to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Reema bint Bandar says it is a significant moment for the kingdom
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‘Driving jacket’ pays tribute to female Saudi motorists
The symbolic date that saw the Saudi female driving ban being lifted is embroidered on the back of the jackets in English and Arabic
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Over 120,000 women in Saudi apply for driving licences
Driving institutes for women have been established across the kingdom, while female road inspectors will be introduced in the coming weeks, authorities said
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Saudi Arabia’s Aseel Al-Hamad drives in parade at 2018 French Grand Prix
On the day Saudi Arabia allowed women to obtain a driving licence, Renault and Aseel Al-Hamad found a unique way to celebrate ahead of the French Grand Prix.
She was part of a Renault ‘passion parade’ hours ahead of the first French Grand Prix in a decade and the first to be held at the Le Castellet circuit for 28 years.
Aseel, who is a member of the FIA Women in Motorsport Commission, is a keen driver and motor sport enthusiast who took part in a training day on June 5 at the circuit.
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‘I pulled the car over and cried … It’s a dream,’ Careem’s first ‘captinah’
70% of Careem’s customers in Saudi Arabia are women, according to company statistics, a figure largely attributable to the kingdom’s now-obsolete ban on women driving
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Saudi Arabia has ‘entered the 21st century’ with lifting of female driving ban, says Alwaleed
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal accompanies his daughter Reem on her first drive on Saudi streets
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Renault hands keys of F1 car Saudi woman at Le Castellet circuit
Aseel Al-Hamad, the first female member of her national motorsport federation, took the wheel of the same car in which Kimi Raikkonen won the 2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
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Saudi officers hand out roses to women drivers in historic moment
Road signs were also updated to read messages dedicated to female drivers
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Saudi women driving set to boost economy more than Aramco IPO
Allowing Saudi women to drive could add as much as $90 billion to economic output by 2030