JEDDAH — Travel agencies in Jeddah have received requests from women seeking tour packages to neighboring countries with the sole purpose of taking driving lessons. Women want to try their hands at ...

It's rare that we have enough foresight to determine which moments in time will prove to be historical turning points for societal change. But when the kingdom of Saudi Arabia allowed women to begin ...

In Saudi Women’s Driving School, her new one-hour documentary premiering on HBO tonight, director Erica Gornall explores a world she’s aware that most audiences here are unfamiliar with, that of the ...

For many Americans, getting a driver's license is a mundane rite of passage. For women in Saudi Arabia, who were only allowed to drive legally starting in June 2018, it's a critical step along the ...

Documentary-maker Erica Gornall’s newest project Saudi Women’s Driving School premiered on HBO Thursday night, showing audiences the perilous and often dichotomous female experience in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi women drivers took to the roads legally Sunday for the first time in the kingdom's history, as its decades-old ban on women driving finally lifted. The end of the controversial ban brings the ...

Saudi Arabia has issued its first driving licences to women. The kingdom is lifting the world’s only ban on women driving in three weeks. However, some who campaigned for the right to drive remain ...

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 ...