• Feminism in Saudi Arabia dates back to the ancient, pre-Roman Nabataean Kingdom in which women were independent legal persons. Twenty-first century feminist...
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    Until June 2018, Saudi Arabia was the only country in the world in which women were forbidden from driving motor vehicles. The Women to Drive Movement...
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    Women's rights in Saudi Arabia is a topic of concern and controversy internationally. Saudi women have experienced major legal rights reforms since 2017...
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  • punishment in Saudi Arabia is a legal punishment, with most executions in the country being carried out by decapitation (beheading) – Saudi Arabia being the...
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    Human rights in Saudi Arabia are a topic of concern and controversy. Known for its executions of political protesters and opponents, the government of...
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  • free to conduct legal contracts in their own name with no male guardian, unlike in Greek and Roman law, and in Saudi Arabia where the guardian is central...
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    transgender (LGBT) people in Saudi Arabia face challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. The government of Saudi Arabia provides no legal protections...
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    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is an Islamic absolute monarchy in which Sunni Islam is the official state religion based on firm Sharia law. Non-Muslims...
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  • The 2018–2019 Saudi crackdown on feminists consisted of waves of arrests of women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia involved in the women to drive movement...
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  • Saudi Arabia is a theocracy organized according to the principles of Islam, which puts emphasis on the importance of knowledge and education. In Islamic...
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    Turkish-born education activist and Saudi princess who was the most prominent wife of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. She is sometimes called Queen Iffat...
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    Dina Ali Lasloom (category Human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia)
    1993) is a Saudi woman who attempted to seek asylum in Australia to escape Saudi guardianship laws, but was forcibly repatriated to Saudi Arabia from the...
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  • Association for the Protection and Defense of Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia is a Saudi non-governmental organization founded to provide activism for...
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    Loujain al-Hathloul (category Violence against women in Saudi Arabia)
    the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia. In May 2018, she and several prominent women's rights activists were kidnapped in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
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    in Lebanon Women's rights in Iran Women's rights in Saudi Arabia Women's rights in Kuwait Women's rights movement in Iran Hermeneutics of feminism in...
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    Samar Badawi (category Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Saudi Arabia)
    Samar bint Muhammad Badawi (Arabic: سمر بدوي; born 28 June 1981) is a Saudi Arabian human rights activist. She and her father filed court cases against...
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    Aziza al-Yousef (category Women's rights in Saudi Arabia)
    Aziza al-Yousef is a Saudi Arabian women's rights activist and academic. She was detained by Saudi authorities in May 2018 along with Loujain al-Hathloul...
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    Sex segregation (category Women's rights in religious movements)
    the State and Reform in Saudi Arabia," Middle East Journal, 62(4):610–629. Nikolas, Katerina (January 29, 2013). "Saudi Arabia orders shops to build...
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  • Madeha al-Ajroush (category Women's rights in Saudi Arabia)
    Madeha al-Ajroush is a Saudi Arabian women's rights activist, psychologist and photographer. She was detained by Saudi authorities in May 2018 along with...
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  • critics. Despite its individualistic aspect, choice feminism differs from individualist feminism in that it is not deliberately a movement. It has been...
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    the most significant mosque in Islam. It encloses the vicinity of the Kaaba in Mecca, in the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia. It is among the pilgrimage...
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    Eman al-Nafjan (category Women's rights in Saudi Arabia)
    Eman al-Nafjan is a Saudi Arabian blogger and women's rights activist. She was detained by Saudi authorities in May 2018 along with Loujain al-Hathloul...
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  • Mai Yamani (category Saudi Arabian academics)
    independent Saudi scholar, author and anthropologist. Yamani was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1956 to an Iraqi mother from Mosul and a Saudi Arabian father from...
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    Mecca (redirect from Mecca, Saudi Arabia)
    Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city in Islam. It is 70 km (43 mi) inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow...
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    Manal al-Sharif (category Women's rights in Saudi Arabia)
    TED "A Saudi woman who dared to drive" Archived 26 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine (TEDGlobal 2013) Portals:  Saudi Arabia  Biography  Feminism...
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  • Aisha al-Mana (category Women's rights in Saudi Arabia)
    المانع) is a Saudi activist and feminist who has participated both in demonstrations against the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia and in the anti male-guardianship...
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  • equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that societies prioritize the male point of view and that women are treated unjustly in these societies....
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    Raif Badawi (category Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Saudi Arabia)
    began. His wife, Ensaf Haidar, who took refuge in Canada after her life was threatened in Saudi Arabia, has said Badawi will not be able to survive further...
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  • Wajeha al-Huwaider (category Women's rights in Saudi Arabia)
    Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia. As a result of her work, al-Huwaider has been the recipient of both significant legal prosecution in Saudi Arabia and international...
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    Hajj (redirect from Pilgrims in Islam)
    sometimes also spelled Hadj, or Haj or Haji in English) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims. Hajj is a mandatory...
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