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That Post Where Maureen Dowd Got Ripped a New One


Posted by fatemeh on 16 Jun 2011 / 0 Comments
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Maureen Dowd has opinions, everybody! And she is gracious enough to share them with us little people. When she heard about the June 17 campaign to drive that Saudi women are mounting on Facebook, the first thing Dowd did was call up her friend Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, who is “a pillar […]

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Facebook isn’t the Final Frontier for Female Drivers in Saudi Arabia


Posted by samya on 02 Jun 2011 / 0 Comments
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On June 17th, women in Saudi Arabia plan to take to the streets—they’re going to get behind the wheel to protest a religious edict forbidding them to drive. As Eman wrote in a post about the Women2Drive campaign yesterday, Manal Al-Sharif posted a Youtube video of herself calling on all women to drive their automobiles […]

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Manal Al-Sharif and the Ban on Saudi Women Driving


Posted by emanhashim on 01 Jun 2011 / 0 Comments
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Last week, Manal Al-Sharif was arrested because she posted a video of herself driving around Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia, on YouTube. Because it is illegal for women to drive in Saudi Arabia, both she and her brother were detained. Al-Sharif has since been released, having pledged to take no further part in the Women2Drive campaign. The Women2Drive […]

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