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Hillary Clinton (Photo: State Department)

UPDATE: Clinton responds to Saudi women

Since I posted the appeal of want-to-be driving Saudi women to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, I thought it worth mentioning that she has officially responded. Clinton called their actions “brave” and added that their goal is “right.” She then stressed that the campaign for driving is a homegrown one, focused on equal rights,…

By Roee Ruttenberg June 21, 2011

Women driving, November 2005, Riyadh (Photo: Khowaga1/flickr)

Drive, Saudi sisters, drive

Over a decade ago, I wrote a small piece about Druze women in Israel undertaking their own form of social initiative, by learning how to drive. (It was sometime in 1998; the original internet magazine where it was published it no longer exists.) I remember being fascinated to learn that driving could be a key…

By Dahlia Scheindlin June 17, 2011