On August 21, 2025, Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court of Appeal resentenced fitness influencer and women’s rights ...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia now offers e-visas to travelers, even women visiting solo, and its controversial ban on women driving has been lifted. Today, women traveling to Saudi Arabia do not need a ...

The ending of a longstanding law is marking a major victory for women in the Gulf Kingdom. Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz made a surprising announcement overturning a long-standing royal decree that ...

Saudi writer-director Shahad Ameen returns to the Venice Film Festival with “Hijra,” which has its world premiere in the ...

It tells the story of Rahaf Mohammed, a young Saudi woman who, in 2019, made headlines for escaping state-endorsed family abuse in Saudi Arabia and live-tweeting her escape.

A woman returned to Kenya from Saudi Arabia and confronted her husband's sidechick claiming she insulted and embarrassed her ...

Saudi Arabia, of course, is a global outlier on human rights—and especially women’s rights. As recently as 2018, women and girls were still barred from taking part in sport in schools or even ...

Police in Saudi Arabia have detained a woman who featured in a social media video wearing a miniskirt and a crop-top as she strolled through a Saudi city, according to a Saudi police statement.

Saudi Arabia has named the country’s first woman astronaut who will be travelling to space later this year. Rayyanah Barnawi, 33, will become the first woman from the kingdom to fly to space, on ...

Confusion has trailed the detention of a Nigerian pilgrim in Saudi Arabia after her name was allegedly linked to a suspicious ...

Saudi Arabia’s historic treasures were long hidden behind a practically insurmountable barrier to international visitors, especially women travelers. But obstacles to accessing the conservative ...